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Valued Member
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can anyone explain what I am seeing here? around the outside of the coin it looks like it's shadowing behind the lettering.  |
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Moderator
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A closeup of the area(s) in question would be helpful. At first glance, maybe the coin had been cleaned and the parts of shadowing were hard to get to   |
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Valued Member
 United States
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i can't get my camera to zoom any closer, trying to find a program on my mac to make the changes you're asking for. I would agree with the cleaning theory but if you look at the word "land" you can see it also and there is much more room in that area for cleaning then the others.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm looking for a previous post of mine where I had a similar ?, only on a pesata, I believe.
Lemme look.
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Moderator
United States
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If I had to guess, I'd call it a seriously worn die.
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Moderator
United States
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to CCF fellow Michigander. Looks like deteriorated die to me. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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High tech is nice but low tech can work, a magnifying glass can make the world of difference  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Another Michigander! A number of the CCF members will chime in to help you as they did already.
This site's motto, " Education is the key to collector success" means a lot.
Welcome!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I take some pretty snazzy closeups with a cheapo plastic 6x magnifying glass held right up to my camera phone. It makes it function like a macro lens and you can get really close up. As for the coin...looks like a worn die, so worn that the coin you are holding was likely very near the bitter end of its service life.
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Valued Member
United States
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i will try with the mag. glass and the cell phone. figures, big expensive camera and I am going back to my 3meg cell phone
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Bedrock of the Community
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Quote:
]i can't get my camera to zoom any closer, trying to find a program on my mac to make the changes you're asking for. I would agree with the cleaning theory but if you look at the word "land" you can see it also and there is much more room in that area for cleaning then the others. A larger picture would help. you should be able to just open the pic with Preview and resize it to post here. Here is how: https://goccf.com/t/168828 |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I've seen this effect on many Pennies. Usually in the 90's. Not exactly sure what causes it but appears to be like an over stamping. Or as already stated from worn dies. On the Pennies the Zinc starts to appear as with that similar shadowing effect. Need a Mint die expert here on this one.
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