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This one is a head scratcher. The elements are raised (indicated by white arrow), but do not resemble anything on the opposite obverse side.  The only thing that looks remotely close, are the obverse denticles, but then the question remains, how did those end up in the middle of the reverse fields?  "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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United States
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a MAD clash maybe. John1  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Just thinking out loud here but is it possible something foreign got dropped on the die and some were minted before it was discovered and polished out?
When you reduce that photo to SA, it is so miniscule that it would be hard to see at first.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Exactly my thought JimmyD. Looks like die damage from handling.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1980 Posts |
you know I was thinking it was caused by a single foreign object that had made it through the die four times and with each hit it disenagrated until nearly most of it was gone by the fouth hit (bottom of cash marks) so maybe there are some coins out there with 1 or 2 or 3 of those square clash marks, this is just a guess as I cant think of anything else
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Looks like the denticle marks made on a coin, from a larger denomination.
Could they somehow have made their way on to the die of a cent?
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Valued Member
Canada
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@Spp-ottawa
Dis you get a conclusion about that coin?
I am asking that question because someone found a similar coin on numicanada.
Thanks for the update!
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Canada
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Hello all, it's been a while since I've posted, life kinda got in the way. I have found several of these 1959 cents all with the same square raised marks, I think that during handling something damaged the die surface.  |
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Canada
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Pillar of the Community
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I did look at the post on numicanada mentioned by sp67 and there are pics of a 1959 cent with the same square raised marks.
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