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MBlend27 New Member United States 10 Posts	Posted 11/06/2019 06:46 am Btw: does this penny hold any value as it does not have a mint letter? Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 11/06/2019 06:58 am no mint mark mean it was minted in Philly,no additional value because of that. The value is about two and a Half Cents. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 11/06/2019 2:28 pm Spacing CAN change slightly due to polishing of the dies. As the field is groung down the letters get thinner and so their edge become further apart. 20th century die making 101. As a general rule all working dies trace back to the same master hub, so in order to have a change in spacing, a misspelling, one letter over another etc, it would HAVE to have occured on the master hub. The problem is if such an error does happen on the master hub, it will also be on all the master dies, all the working hubs, all the working dies, and on every coin produced. So since the OP cent came from dies that came from the same master hub and all the other 1920 dies, the spacing can't be different. Edited by Conder101 11/06/2019 2:29 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Panther Pillar of the Community United States 751 Posts	Posted 11/06/2019 3:22 pm Just an observation here. If you used flet marker to indicate the spacing differences, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REMOVE THOSE BLACK LINES. Use acetone and blot on a towel. Don't rub the coin with anything rough. Never clean a coin Acetone should remove the lines, without removing any patina from the original coin coloration. Dan Report this Post to the Staff
MBlend27 New Member United States 10 Posts	Posted 11/09/2019 05:28 am I did not mark the penny, I used an iPhone photo editing option to add it virtually to that photo. Report this Post to the Staff
Yokozuna Pillar of the Community United States 4618 Posts	Posted 11/09/2019 05:32 am MBlend27 said... Quote: I did not mark the penny, I used an iPhone photo editing option to add it virtually to that photo. Wow! I think we all thought it was felt tip marker. I'm glad it's not! ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! Report this Post to the Staff
MBlend27 New Member United States 10 Posts	Posted 11/13/2019 12:56 am That highlighter would have been hard to pull off ^_^ Report this Post to the Staff
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