Where To Draw The Line Between Full Island And Small Island

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SteveInCanada Valued Member Canada 74 Posts	Posted 06/15/2020 4:14 pm Hi Everyone, Working through some 1968 nickel dollars and curious to know where people draw the line between Full Island and Small Island. Since this variety is created from die polishing it is progressive, with small island varieties starting at "Yeah I don't know" all the way down to "You sure that isn't no island?" The most easily recognized are the ones where the top waterline is nicely and cleanly broken away from the bow of the canoe. What would you call this coin? To my eye it's either just barely full or just barely small. I lean towards small using the chiseled appearance of the waterline as a guide. I realize this is purely esoteric, but I'm curious to know where people draw the line, no pun intended. Thanks! Steve Report this Post to the Staff

SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 06/15/2020 4:20 pm That is a full island... Small Island has the waterlines at the bow and stern of the canoe starting to detach from the canoe... and you just see a small hint of the island (remember this is a die polishing variant). "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 Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
SteveInCanada Valued Member Canada 74 Posts	Posted 06/15/2020 4:29 pm Thanks, over fixation on a single element instead of taking in the whole picture. (also clearly looking at the horizon line instead of the water line....) Edited by SteveInCanada 06/15/2020 9:50 pm Report this Post to the Staff
SteveInCanada Valued Member Canada 74 Posts	Posted 06/15/2020 4:53 pm So I have a number of coins (small compared to the overall grouping) where the bow waterlines (not the horizon line I was focused on) are detached (varying degrees, here it's just the top one but on several it extends to all of them) but the stern waterlines are still fairly strong and to my definition, attached. Would you disqualify these as well? I.e. how significant must the polishing to the rear waterlines be to qualify as small island? Does the stern island need to be essentially gone and only the dimple of the bow island appearing to be correct? Report this Post to the Staff
SteveInCanada Valued Member Canada 74 Posts	Posted 06/15/2020 4:58 pm Just for future searchers, this was discussed in 2014 (and no doubt elsewhere) ... http://goccf.com/t/189557 At that time the discussion was about the bow only and said "full waterlines but just barely any island", with some reduced island sizes possible still being called full island despite polishing (yay progressive varieties haha). Report this Post to the Staff
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