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I am leaning towards PSD. |
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 looks like damage to me..... |
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Please note that at the 10-11:00 area of the obverse the hollows that are formed have the denticles RAISED inside those hollows. How could that possibly occur PSD? |
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Good point....not sure....they look thin....like they are the raised incuse spaces between the denticles of the coin that caused the damage?
Where are the remnants of the 2nd and third strikes?
BTW, all conjecture on my end...
*edit for clarity
Edited by amida17
07/08/2015 12:34 pm
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Rest in Peace
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The second photo tries to show it best, as far the denticles being raised inside those two sets of hollows, and they are not the "squeezed in" incuse that would occur if you took one coin and pounded it into another coin.
I know it's darned near impossible to figure this out by just these pictures because it is such a strange occurrence. As I mentioned, I've never seen anything quite like this.
The one thing that bothers me particularly is why the edges with the denticles all show so clearly in the two double impressions - but there is no indication of either of those later strikes leaving anything anywhere else. Other than, if you look closely, there are actually 14 stars with the "odd" star between the 6th and 7th star. That odd star is also not incuse, but raised.
Thanks for your conjecture thus far. I'm hoping someone has actually seen such an odd occurrence, one way or another, and can offer a more definitive reason for the raised denticles and extra star.
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I would say cleaned and retoned but as far as the triple strike...  Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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I would also say this is cleaned and retoned. As for the triple strike, it looks like it got mashed up pretty good a few times, but this isn't exactly the kind of strike doubling/tripling that folks want to see. It has the eye appeal of a damaged coin, even if it isn't PMD. |
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It looks like a mint error to me. How I don't know, hopefully an expert will see it and give you some input. As far as the cleaning, some good close-ups would shed a lot more light on it.
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Looks to me like just PSD. The raised "denticles" appear to be the spaces between denticles that were pressed in. Especially noticeable through star 7. As for the "raised" star between 6 ad 7, I can't tell form the image if it is really raised and it is faint. This could be cause by the coin being pressed into this coin receiving an image of a star from the subject coin (which would be incuse) and then acting as a die on the next pressing creating a faint raised star. |
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I'm leaning towards a vise job. The extra denticles on the top should not be incuse if this was a multiple strike error.
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I could only hope it wasn't PSD, because it is one cool looking coin. |
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Spend a few dollars and send to a TPGS. Would be great to see what they say.
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