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oldmike Pillar of the Community Canada 891 Posts	Posted 03/23/2017 9:50 pm Found this in my hoard, not to sure how it all happened on one coin, sorry for all the photo's Report this Post to the Staff

papeldog Pillar of the Community Canada 1923 Posts	Posted 03/23/2017 9:56 pm Nice 1979 has lots to watch for Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10460 Posts	Posted 03/23/2017 11:58 pm A combination of over-polishing of the dies and Die Deterioration... used well beyond their normal usable lifespan... you see the same thing with 1978 cents. "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 Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Dennman Valued Member Canada 496 Posts	Posted 03/24/2017 12:08 am I've got quite a few of the '79s with bits of all those faults (goiter,mustache,eye tear,tongue,lettering) but none show as many as yours.That obverse die was at it's end of life. Report this Post to the Staff
oldmike Pillar of the Community Canada 891 Posts	Posted 03/24/2017 01:57 am Yes I agree Dennman late stage die, it's the first one I have ever seen with that many faults on one coin, just wanted to show Edited by oldmike 03/24/2017 01:58 am Report this Post to the Staff
pennysaver Pillar of the Community Canada 937 Posts	Posted 03/25/2017 10:51 pm One man's wreck is another man's treasure... thanks for sharing. Report this Post to the Staff
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