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Edited by TaeKenDo
05/15/2019 9:21 pm
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Very nice, I like these early errors.
Cheers, Bill
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks, same here. Finding them nice ones in higher grades is a task.
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I have looked at this NUMEROUS times. I do not believe that this is broad struck. The missing legends just end....no tapering etc.........Ken, you have it in hand. Is there any chance that it is a partial clip that delaminated? What are the marks in the "unstruck" area? MM
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I don't understand how the top portion of the die didn't strike?
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MM - I'm going to have to dig it out but here are bigger photos of that area. There seems to be some remnants of other lettering within the lettering that I pointed to with the arrows, also something that I can't quite make out on the inner raised portion.
Alan - Is it possible it did strike but faintly and over time & wear there's nothing left ?
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05/17/2019 8:34 pm
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Partial Indent strike? Please don't scold me, if I'm wrong. It's just a guess.
Errers and Varietys.
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Could the dies be misaligned, and that is edge of the collar, with a Rim Fin? I don't know enough about how these early coins were struck, to know if this is legit or not. The obverse certainly looks convincing... "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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I don't know it this is significant but the diagonal reeding is evident all the way around. It isn't as sharp where the lip rises but it's there.
But something interesting...this is the 10-string harp variety. According to CoinsandCanada, it's supposed to weigh 4.5 grams whereas the 8-string weighs 5 grams. This one weighs 4.7 grams so it's Above it supposed weight strangely enough.
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05/17/2019 9:01 pm
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SPP-Ottawa - A ' Rim Fin' as you put it, is another name for the raised lip ? |
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missing area is too uniform to be indent strike I think. Dies appear aligned. The tapering is exactly how a clip should look. hmmmmm
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Is it possible this is struck over an indent strike?
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@Alan - I don't know much about the strike process, can you elaborate...
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The portion of the coin was either sunken in before it was struck, or a piece of crescent moon shaped metal was sitting on the edge when it was struck. What's strangest about this one, never seen an indent strike where the indented portion is backwards. How would a coin lay over top and make the indent? Would have to have been a crescent moon shaped piece of metal?
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