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New Member
Canada
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I found this the other day in my change, what do you think it is worth?  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Are the details incuse or raised? If they are incuse, the coin was just "sandwiched" or someone put another dime on top of it and smacked it with a hammer.
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New Member
 Canada
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They are raised - also, if you look closely, the "ONE DIME" and "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" text is reversed, which could only have happened with a clashed die.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Closer images would be nice. That would help us to elvaluate it better.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think it was glued to another dime, and the impression you see is actually in the leftover layer of glue. There are even bubbles. Stick it in some acetone and the glue will eventually lift off.
Edited by CaptainFwiffo
02/07/2012 8:39 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4212 Posts |
That would be a terrific transfer.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2738 Posts |
It looks like a glue job.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Valued Member
United States
142 Posts |
This is what I was calling adhesive doubling, a NON-ERROR, post strike damage, where glue or another adhesive connected one coin to another, fell off, and left a deceptive transfer of the other coin.
Edited by jcuve
02/07/2012 11:04 pm
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New Member
Canada
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After inspecting the coin more closely, I can assure you that it is NOT residual glue that is left over on the surface. Indeed, on the original picture, the light is coming from the bottom of the page and the outer text is casting a shadow consistent with it being raised. Furthermore the leaves have a very precise edge to them that is definitely pressed into the metal.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Indeed, on the original picture, the light is coming from the bottom of the page and the outer text is casting a shadow consistent with it being raised. That should be your first clue that something is wrong. You can't have a raised and reversed image. Die is incuse and reversed. If it clashed with the other die it leaves a forward raised image just as it would on a coin. If that clashed die then strikes a coin it leaves an incuse reversed image in the coin. Second problem. Die clashes almost NEVER leave clashmarks in the devices of the other die. When they do it is only on the lowest relief areas. Yours is showing the entire reverse devices on the entire obverse devices including in the highest relief areas. This is what you will typically see on a vise job or on a glue job. Since there appears to be "stuff" in the field area between Roosevelt and LIBERTY I would vote for glue. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Hand on lemme see ....  Edited by Coppertop
02/08/2012 7:40 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nice teeth. Must be a puppy?  |
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