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errorrorre New Member Canada 25 Posts	Posted 01/13/2013 12:25 am I found this in my change the other day and was wondering what could have caused this type of error. Thanks! Report this Post to the Staff

SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 01/13/2013 4:49 pm Looks like the chrome-plating on the dies was starting to deteriorate. You see similar features on the 1995 Peacekeeper loon dollar (shown in the variety section of 60th edition of the Charlton catalogue). "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9866 Posts	Posted 01/13/2013 5:18 pm Would this be aka mortarset? Or does this condition have to be more extensive to be called mortarset? "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 01/13/2013 5:37 pm Basically synonymous with mortarset (a term used by Hans Zoell). "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
change4thebetter Valued Member Canada 286 Posts	Posted 01/18/2013 1:20 pm Hi errorrorre. Congrats on the find...nice Report this Post to the Staff
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