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Valued Member
United States
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 I love this coin a 1989 you can notice in the word liberty,"LIB" is clearly smaller and thinner than "BERTY". What do you think. *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum and removed Shouting! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think you take a great photo for starters.
Interesting lettering for sure, we'll see if
anyone knows about it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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When a die is over polished, the devices become thinner because the fields are reduced. The devices are tapered so they will not stick to the die. I've seen this on the 60's cents, when the polish one area excessively.  The area has a strong clash or damage to the die. To save the die they polish off the clash marks or damage to the die. This removes the devices, but reduces the height of the devices, thus making them smaller. On a struck through error, the taller areas get filled partially and the devices are wider because it cant form the deeper devices in the die, just the widest part. The device is also flat looking when this happens. (Sorry, I don't have an image of that now.) |
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Pillar of the Community
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I suggest putting it in a mylar or some type of protection. It looks like it has a lot of bubbles on it, and eventually the zinc will start to rot. The less handling the better.
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Valued Member
 United States
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the picture does not look very good but I think the date is double and rpm. I'm not sure if it's a Mechanical Doubling |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If you are referring to the area east of the 9, that is Die Deterioration. You see this a lot on the single squeeze method coins. The devices are not as deeply set into the die as the multi hub examples from the good old days. This is common also.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Error coin writer and researcher.
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United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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On my last image the die is wearing and all coins after my coin will continue to get more of a ridge because the die is developing a incuse. Not extra value for these though. Just interesting to look at. I spend them.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I found a Proof coin with smaller tops of the letters. They must have over polished it on that side of the devices to remove something?   Just the tops of the letters on UNITED were affected. The rest of the coin was normal. No extra value for it. Just another interesting coin. |
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Posted 12/09/2013 1:22 pm
