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New Member
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Can you help me with naming this feature of lines appearing in the motto, "liberty" and date? My past pictures in recent posts have not shown the lines clearly enough. I think this shot shows the feature that I am looking to ID very well.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If you're talking about that coin contact mark, then that's just damage unfortunately.
Errers and Varietys.
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New Member
 United States
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No E and V, not the contact mark, but the lines that appear in "Liberty" and in the Motto. I thank you for the post.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Those are contact marks from circulation. Zinc being soft coming in contact with other coins dents the raised devices. Thus it is just circulation damage.  |
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New Member
United States
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First, let me say thank you to both bedrock members of this community that have responded to this post. Next, if you look at the "IN" in the IGWT motto, you can plainly see lines running with the letters inside each letter. These same lines appear in "GOD." They also appear in the date of this coin. I am thinking that again, this picture is not letting either of you see the lines I am referring to in this post, but they appear plain as day to me on my computer screen. Can you guys see the lines I am referring to? They are not contact lines. They were made some how at mint. I just want to know what the coin community calls these lines. I am also sorry if this is in anyway frustrating to you. I feel like a pest bothering you with this quest to find out what these lines/marks are.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Are these the features you are talking about?  If so, that is a natural part of striking coins. Those points on the coin are the recesses on the die, so when the metal of the planchet is forced to fill the voids in the die, it isn't always enough and things are lacking. Those "lines" are caused by a low-pressure strike. The metal almost filled the die, but the center of the letters was too much and a little dip was left. I hope that makes sense. In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Moderator
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I think those "lines" are actually sunk in are they not? John1  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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The lighting makes it tough to evaluate this.
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New Member
United States
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This is all very much appreciated. To spruett001: thank you for your informative observation of what is going on in my question. It was very helpful. To John1 and Coinfrog, the lines do indeed sink in - the lines are visible due to the shadow cast by the light source for the photograph. Is there a formal name for this phenomena? Does it fall under a general catagory? Of the 250,000 pennies I've picked through these past 3 years or so, I have found three pennies with these lines, two 1992 Ds, and one 1988 D. Anyway, thanks again everyone for your help.
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New Member
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Shall we call them "low pressure strike" coins then? That sounds like a good name to me.
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No. That's a different thing. John1 |
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Posted 09/04/2019 11:36 pm
