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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Found a cool 11.15g Bicentennial Half with which I thought was stamped till getting closer, nice little ampersand design that was extruding not indented . Curious on thoughts, thx in advance.    |
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Moderator
 United States
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Just to be clear, this ampersand mark sits above the surface of the coin? It doesn't look added to the surface, but that would mean someone added this to the die at the mint (which I have a hard time picturing).
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
584 Posts |
can tell by shadows and light that it is extruding not indented
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Pillar of the Community
United States
584 Posts |
here is another angle  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
584 Posts |
@ Spence at first I even thought it was a vise job lol
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7519 Posts |
I can't tell from the pics. is the marking in question, raised above the surface or incuse ?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
584 Posts |
raised to my belief due 2 shadowing on sides where light is not
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Pillar of the Community
United States
584 Posts |
then again could be optical illusion
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5838 Posts |
Looks almost like soldering.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
IMHO,
almost certain:-
damaged die.
Die face damaged by wire indent. The wire needs to be hard enough to cause this. The only type of wire hard enough to plausibly cause this, is a fine piece of spring steel.
Broken spring may cave caused automatic shutdown of the coining press.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
584 Posts |
regardless thought it was pretty different, and wasn't a stamp ^^
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Valued Member
United States
203 Posts |
Looks like it was drawn into the coin not the die
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
584 Posts |
maybe theres another out there ^^, that pike of the reed on the ike made me think of reeding dmg
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Pillar of the Community
United States
584 Posts |
so I did a bit of a diagram  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
75109 Posts |
Counterstamp?
Errers and Varietys.
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Posted 03/07/2020 2:22 pm
