*** Edited by Staff to Add Year / Mintmark / Denomination to Title. Titles are Important! ***I know, I know, it's a dead horse. Poor horse didn't do anything to anyone. It's like that movie, "Inception". Someone makes a comment on your rims and then it starts.
Now fast forward.
Upon further inspection. I've found arrows pointing this way, that way and over there.
So here is what I've glimpsed.
My 1909 V.D.B.
Now the rims look flat in these pictures. So I looked into that aspect of the Matte Proof. I found my 1909 has areas that are flat and some areas that are worn? or damaged? but not rounded like smooth or anything like that. You be the judge.
Flat?
Round?
Then the die cracks or the myth of them. If you start looking into them there is some debate just like the V.D.B. initials and the placement of the periods.
Hard to see, but it's faint. All of these can be seen if you hold the lighting, your breath and hold the coin just so.
....and after that. You hear "Nope, not one of those Matte Proofs". Doesn't have the Die crack after the M in UNUM. You know the crescent shaped one. My question is this. Who's to say when that die developed that tell, tell, sign? Is it possible that one diagnostic came after another? Is there a chronological order when these diags started? Did they all happen at once? I'm just asking. because errors develop as wear or human error occurs? Right?
Why have I seen sleeved Matte Proof with the center period in the initials where mine is? Are they a mistake? Could that diag. also evolved?
Feel free to tell me to step away from the water bong(won't catch me near one). Or talk me down off the ledge.
I can say one thing. I'm learning.
Posted 07/15/2018 01:35 am
Keep looking! We all learned something here.
