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Found this hiding in the back of an old binder. Don't remember where or when I got it. A cool re-find. With the light strike on the reverse around the cavity, and that huge "cauliflower" ear on the King, I think it's legit. I'm not a large cent collector, yet, but I do like errors.  What do you think? Opinions please, and, Thank You.      "We are poor little lambs...who have lost our way...Baa...Baa...Baa"
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Are both sides raised or is one side incuse?
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Jimmy, the reverse is a cavity/crater, the ear is quit proud. I got fooled by the optical illusion too.
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Post mint damage.
Cheers, Bill
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Cheers Bill, why do you think that?
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Because the Reverse is struck so weakly, I think that a loose piece of steel was on top of the planchet and it was struck through, making the Rev die not fully striking and the Obv punched out
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That's the jist I had in mind as well. The cracks in the bottom of the crater are hard to fake if tooled. Thanks okie.
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PMDIf there is a bulge there the obverse is not weak enough in general and the king's ear should be very well struck.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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 , damaged coin. "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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Why is the obverse so weak around this anomaly?
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Why is the obverse so weak around this anomaly? . Because of the crud that got hammered into it kept the die high on the strike, and punched out the other side after a good strike to the obverse? "We are poor little lambs...who have lost our way...Baa...Baa...Baa"
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Think about it.
If that were true George's ear would be so detailed we'd see that mthe hairs needed trimming.
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Why is the obverse so weak around this anomaly? Take any coin, brutally hammer a cavity into it... then, look at the other side... "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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DBM, that's hilarious. I'm still not convinced. There is so much wear on the high spot on the obverse from the reverse cavity, and that with the weak strike on the reverse says it happened a long time ago. One way or another, I don't mind, but it's cool we can't agree yet.
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Exactly what are you disagreeing on? Think of the dies, and how coins are struck...
This is 100% a damaged coin.
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