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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What do you all think? I think I am seeing some mild distortion under pillars 5 and 6, maybe just wear and/or damage? Not too sure myself, looking for opinions.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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sorry ndgoflo, I'm not seeing it. it is pretty late, but in another hour or so I might agree with you.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6478 Posts |
I must say, it looks like circulation got to it.
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Moderator
 United States
23522 Posts |
I'm hardly an expert, but if this isn't a Wavy Steps coin, to what degree should we see the distortion extending down and left of the pillars? It's fairly clear here on all of them, and I saw none of it in a random sample of a half-dozen 1980's MS68's at Heritage.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well it looks like wear to me because you don't have good definition of the steps where it looks wavy. It almost looks worn down or by some sort of contact. Also you only see it about 4 steps. If this coin was ms 68 we would not have this issue but being maybe AU at best I would agree with the later and say it is from circulation
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Moderator
United States
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I think I have at least 500 wavy steps in my collection and yours looks like damage to me. John1  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
They get more interesting when they start to look like this one.  Until they get looking like this, they are just too minor. I've submitted a bunch in the past and sever got rejected. So when it is obvious like this one, I'd pass. |
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United States
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Never seen wavy steps before
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
They are cause by the same thing that make trail dies. Hub sliding across the die. Quote:Trail Dies and Wavy Step Lincoln Cents
When the MINT began using the single squeeze process, it was thought that the doubled die would be
a thing of the past. This was not the case and this type hubbing system has introduced us to another
form of variety die, trails / wavy steps.
This type of variety is not a doubled die, since it does not double a design element, however, it is
considered a design extension or a continuation of the design affected.
The first wavy step, which is a trail die, was discovered in the early part of 1995 on the reverse of a
1994P Lincoln Cent. After that initial discovery, over 500 other dies have been found with this type
anomaly, ranging in date from 1982 to 2007 and from all three MINTS. Edited by coop
03/24/2015 7:41 pm
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