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Pillar of the Community
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Just like it say New Discovery 1946 Full design but with Guitar strings through the 9... You can see the 3 strings on the outside of the 9 going into the design ..Then you see it inside the 9 and then between the 1 & 9...... It is not a scratch.. I have blown up the pics extra large and there is no marks on the 9 at all .... I put 2 pics.. not sure which one is better So is it a worthy discovery ?    Edited by artdio
09/02/2014 2:23 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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COOL, I think could be multi die clashed...bottom of portrait.
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09/02/2014 2:56 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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I have had many of the 46 hoof but never had one like this... To bad I dont keep errors or this type of thing...
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I would be interested in hearing Paul's (pginrh) opinion on this one...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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He's a member of this forum who wrote the 50 cent sections of the 2 charlton books that contain them.
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Valued Member
Canada
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These could be die scratches and maybe common to all 46 hoofs, mine has then also.While you have yours out, have a look to see if it has a double clash between the mid and right maple leafs from the kings chin.  Edited by west- canuk
09/02/2014 8:01 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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from what I can see it does not have that feature
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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DIE SCRATCH-See post on this page-Canada 1947 dot 5 cents.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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this so called guitar string is a marker for the hoof through 6 I think I have had two id to yours Art.
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Pillar of the Community
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Oh well I thought I had something new.. So if by chance this is a marker would it be weaker or stronger as the die wears ? if you know what I meen ?
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Valued Member
Canada
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These marks are fine die scratches imparted to the die when preparing it for use. They get less noticable the longer the die is in use.... on my examples they are still fairly prominent.
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Pillar of the Community
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There's the man with the answer...  |
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Sorry that I was rushed on my previous answer, but to expand on it. The die scratches are actually fine file marks that were imparted to the die when the Mint worker was manually finishing it. The 194x's 50cent (except 1940) dies were the only denomination for George VI where the last two date digits were entered manually. This extra die working sometimes introduced an exposure where some dies needed additional finishing requiring the file. Because of the ten-fold increased requirement for 50cent coins (see mintages for 1937-1939) die production was very rushed and polishing of the dies to remove these file marks (die scratches) was not performed or not completely performed. The file marks are very common 1942-1946. As mentioned above, they can be used as markers when studying die varieties. They do attenuate, becoming fainter, with usage.
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Posted 09/02/2014 2:53 pm
