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Pillar of the Community
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Very cool  John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
Korea, Republic Of
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Very cool. It has a lot of character.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice.
And it's obvious that the obverse die was polished at the Mint at least once.
There's slight evidence that the die was involved in a clash.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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A strong evidence there was a die clash. The nose, throat the hair show evidence of this. Add on the over polishing to cover the clash that removed parts of these areas. The jaw is part of the inner devices on the die. Looks like they may have touched these inner devices and left marks behind.  The LIBERTY area appear to have grease in this area and the lines from the "B" and the date look like smeared grease in these areas. I see no lamination. |
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Very nice...That is one good looking VLDS coin...I enjoy looking at some of theses late stage strike more then some of those first strikes any day... I agree with Matteproof it does have a lot of character...
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I don't feel this one is a VLDS coin. The die wear is not showing on the outside of the devices. I think they touched up the inside devices of the profile with a buffing wheel and altered the deep devices, the high devices on a coin. Must have been a strong clash to have worked it over that hard?
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Pillar of the Community
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To me, it seems the reverse die is a lot newer than obverse...the obverse def. shows the repair polish lines...perhaps a marriage of new and old dies? Maybe the mint guys threw out the reverse die, as not repairable from clash damage, and, kept the obverse....Thanks for the comments and discussion..you guys are the best!
I was HOPING for Full Step coins from the roll(original bank wrap), but, no finds..the coins pretty much all looked the same..older obverse dies paired with mostly newer reverse dies...gosh..remember when coin grading graded BOTH sides of each coin, and you had TWO grades? Wish it still happened today, as this coin is a good example much different grades.
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Very cool indeed nice find man
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Pillar of the Community
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here's a good pic of the die area discussed.  |
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Posted 05/17/2014 08:15 am
