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Pillar of the Community
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Yes I agree with you 100%. Sure does to me as well.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Looks normal to me:  |
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Coop I'm just a new guy and I trust both your expertise and eyes but could it be the same metal flow around the E that occured around the 7 (see it between the W and E and the metal flow looks like it extends on top of the E as well to the rim), it makes it appear the the letter is slightly lower..now I have to figure out how to convince my eyes or let it ride to another time and accept it as a part of the normal minting process.
In everyones experience does metal flow cause these optical illusions to occur often? Again maybe it's just me.
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Pillar of the Community
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Your not seeing anything wrong; it is lower as to the reason why I'm not going to say. It very well may be part of the minting process and is accepted as normal. I know what I see and I'm sure you do.
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Rest in Peace
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Looks to me like this cent spent a couple of cycles in the dryer or something similar. Appears to be a lot of PMD. Just my opinion of course. |
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Yes, a dryer will move a letter off the party line.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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This is a somewhat of an uncommon error. Rotated Picture Error...
The OPs picture is rotated to the right. This makes the E look lower than it is. Coops picture is taken straight up and down. IMO its normal. (however when I first looked at it it looked lower...but turn your head straight on the original pic...normal)
Edited by Jayman931
07/25/2013 1:35 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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When I saw ctguy's photo I grabbed a stack of wheat cents and compared the "WE". It looked the same on the three I looked at,all different dates.That was how I concluded ctguy's coin was normal.
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well Dryer Coin does seem to be one of the favorite answers |
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just like the 1937 is not parallel with liberty on this cent, these things happen. its normal, but not.. I guess
Edited by randy0050
07/25/2013 8:34 pm
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Also, the bottoms of the letters "W", "T" and "R" are worn out and therefore shorter, which in turn makes the "E" appear lower than them. When you replace the worn-out bottoms, as shown below, the "WE" now looks closer to coop's photo.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Gentlemen those are all reasonable answers and I can accept that as to why it looked lower to me. If you listen you will certainly learn ...Thank You!
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The E is lower and it's not because of the minting process it is the way the die was made,IMHO John1  |
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All, Thank you for the excellent observations and education, Agreed - Gentlemen those are all reasonable answers and I can accept that as to why it looked lower to me. If you listen you will certainly learn. And I am learning  |
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