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Posted 12/17/2021 8:37 pm
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There appears to be a very slight Rim Fin above IGWT and around the right wheat suggesting a slight tilt to the dies or a slight misalignment of the dies.
There appears to be a very slight Rim Fin above IGWT and around the right wheat suggesting a slight tilt to the dies or a slight misalignment of the dies.
I missed that! Good eye! I have never see a Rim Fin on a proof Lincoln. IMHO, that right there makes it a business strike.
Personally, I've always held with the theory that proof dies were sometimes retired and made into business dies. To my knowledge, nobody has proof of that...or anything else from the era. I also ascribe the the theory that the mint may have experimented on production dies using the sandblasting method - they simply released the test specimens to circulation.
The evidence they used retired proof dies we need may lie in coins like this. It's EDS and the markers have not yet been obliterated fully. If the theory holds, the scarcity of PL coins may just due to attrition as the fine details wear easily. Many of them could be AG-VF coins by 2021.
I've posted a couple of mine already but I'll add them for discussion and because the angled photos are interesting for the PL characteristics.
