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Posted 04/27/2013 3:01 pm
Great explanation of the die grease Drsandman2 and how it is used. I can see how that could cause the missing star. it's really fascinating to see these three examples and the progression of what occurred in the stamping of them. I really love learning about the history of these old copper mints and this gave me quite a bit of insight into the minting of these examples. So I'm going to guess that it doesn't matter if the missing star was due to die grease or die sinking, either way it still qualifies as 12 star variety. Whats really interesting is that the same year coin with the same error could have occurred in two completely different ways. BTW thanks for passing this knowledge on, it was greatly appreciated. I love my 12 star even more. I've had her over 30 years. I paid about $35 for her in the 80's and is the reason I started collecting the old coppers.
