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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I found this while roll hunting a few days ago, I am pretty sure it is not a Dryer Coin as the obverse is complete in tact, and the edges are not rolled. I have never seen the entire coin face being struck through before, and that is why I am unsure about which this coin is? Struck through or capped die? Thoughts?    |
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Valued Member
Canada
170 Posts |
I had posted a 1980 with the same appearance and I was told it was late stage die cap. if that is any help.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4963 Posts |
I'm thinking it was struck through a late-stage die cap. Nice coin!
Edited by Numisma
04/27/2016 8:01 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
534 Posts |
 Cool coin! |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
2517 Posts |
Struck through die cap. Not the die cap itself, but struck through one. |
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
693 Posts |
Struck through die cap for sure. Nice find!
I'd say mid-stage - not much of the design is visible.
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Moderator
 Canada
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I would say mid stage as well. Late enough to obliterate any brockage from the cap, but the cap is not thin enough to transfer much detail from the hammer die. "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
Canada
870 Posts |
That is a cool find for roll hunting! Wow. Jealous!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4233 Posts |
I'm curious how you guys tell the difference between die cap and PMD. To me it looks like it got a few drops of acid on one side only, especially with the rim discoloration relative to the obverse. Of course I'd have to wonder why somebody would do that deliberately and then put it back into circulation as opposed to pawning it off as an error. Just wondering. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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There is a perfect dish-shaped concave rim on the reverse side. I don't think you could replicate that with acid.
Also the obverse appears to have had a very hard-strike (due to the extra thickness of the blank & die-cap in the coining chamber). Evidence of the hard-strike is the finning at the edge of the rim on the obverse.
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Moderator
Canada
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The orange peel texture is very hard to duplicate with any kind of acid...
"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
United States
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A die cap that produces such a generic (featureless) capped die strike could have started out with no image on its working face. Uniface die caps are probably just as common as die caps that strike brockages and more common than those that strike counterbrockages.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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