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New Member
United States
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   Roosevelt looks like a mummy. Dry cracked skin appearance or aluminum foil that was attempted to smoothed out after crumpled. Not sure how else to explain. Shows in field as well. First what exactly is this? Polishing compound on die when struck? Is this considered an error? Worth anything? Found several in coin roll. Thanks in advance for you time and comments.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Looks to me as a victim of a mild acid. Environmental or intentional post mint damage.   to the CCF!  |
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New Member
 United States
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I dont believe these to be post mint damage. These dimes coming out of Loomis rolled boxes. Most definitely mint state coins.
I would buy in to the notion of these being pre strike acid damage. My opinion would be the field wouldn't be uniform through the letters. Woild say the letters would act like a dam. Would think there would be evidence of pooling around details. It's on both sides as well.
Im putting them off to the side for now. Not even half way through the box.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think you just have some very deteriorated dies causing the orange peel effect. I see some radial flow lines, I think, on the back side of FDR's head and also think the hair shows a very weak mushy tired strike. https://www.error-ref.com/?s=orange+peel+ |
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New Member
United States
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Orange peel effect. That describes it well but wouldn't call them deteriorating dies either. Some strikes are very defined.   Bad planchets maybe? Almost shows signs of delamination. Few sample pics of the lot of them. Have found around $2.00 worth. They are definitely different. Im a Morgan guy personally. Picked up a couple boxes of dimes just to see what I could see. Wasn't expecting to be sorting through nice, shiny and never been touched coins. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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These dimes coming out of Loomis rolled boxes. Most definitely mint state coins. Loomis is a third party coin handler/roller. Who knows what has happened to these coins between the time they were minted and eventually bagged then rolled outside the mint. The coin you showed us is not "mint state", sorry. |
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New Member
United States
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Merclover, guess there's guys like you in every chat room. I know what mint state is thank you very much. I asked a question its ok to not open your pie hole if you don't know the answer. Don't be disrespectful to me and I won't be to you.
You hold the title of Pillar of the community, try showing it.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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RJS77, first welcome here.
Then please be less aggressive in yours answers. You come here, put a topic and someone will give you theirs' opinions, which could be 100% what you expect or could be 100% at the other poll.
Let go back to the basic of your topic. I agrees the small bubbles or shrinks (how you say) of your coins they are not strike errors. In the coins with Metal Composition: 91.67% Copper - 8.33% Nickel the planchet laminations default takes complete others forms, so excluded.
Me personally I see probably some alkaline residues remains on the copper after dry, before plating, This residues in time form bubbles, or a such shrinking of the nickel surface. I recognize that not often we see, almost for that year when the technology improves more. Like collector and in my circle, we do not consider your coins strike or pre-strike error. We say post strike error.
Me I see others things with your coins, but if we do not see pics at 40x and then close up at 300x or 400x is hard to pronounce.
If you do not believe try a TPC.
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03/12/2021 06:51 am
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Forum Dad
 United States
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I asked a question its ok to not open your pie hole if you don't know the answer. Don't be disrespectful to me and I won't be to you. No one was disrespectful, all anyone has done is disagree with you. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm thinking Die Deterioration. Would like to see the coin in-hand. Not that it matters much, but the first three photos posted appear to be showing two different coins. |
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United States
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Looks like a VLDS coin. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Ooh. John1 What is VLDS? |
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Canada
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United States
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Very Late Die State John1
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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VLDS = Very Late Die State. The die that struck your coin was an very senior die. It would be one to keep to show to a new collector as a "Show and Tell" item. While this is not a premium coin, this is what it is though. But this die could be polished and remove some of the die flow lines on the fields and still be continued to be used. No die cracks/breaks/chips. So it was probably salvaged to continue to be used. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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to the CCF! It could be VLDS and a bit of oily debris on the surface of the dies. ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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