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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by Adam590
11/05/2022 12:21 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Adjustment marks maybe
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Pillar of the Community
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If it is a raised defect on the die, then it would appear on other examples from that same marriage. So, the first step is to compare with other coins. This one is easy, because it is the 1798/7 so it can narrowed down quickly. Upon internet photo comparisons, the line that hits Miss Liberty's bridge of her nose is a die defect, and the one that continues parallel underneath the ribbon is too.
That incuse line that crosses over the ribbon I believe is a scratch.
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Looks like die adjustment marks to my eyes.
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Edited by echidna
11/05/2022 03:33 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Adjustment marks are put on the planchet pre-strike, which means the marks would affect the high points to a greater extent than the fields. This coin has raised marks only on the field, those are clearly not adjustment marks. The cut through the ribbon is a single curved line, no aspect of this is an adjustment mark.
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Pillar of the Community
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jacrispies is right.
Not die adjustment.
Its a die flaw visible on other examples.
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@ech, could you please provide a link to another example of this dime with the same linear feature? I'm well outside my swimming lane with 18th Century Silver, but that sure looks like a plain old scratch to me. Thx.
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Bedrock of the Community
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That would be great.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like scratches to me, with displaced metal along the edges of the scratch.
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Pillar of the Community
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The line from the star to the hair and from the nose to star looks like die cracks. The line from the field through the hair ribbon looks like a scratch.
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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by kbbpll
11/05/2022 12:03 pm
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Ok yes thx for those links @kbb. I was mostly talking about the line coming down from the hair ribbon. That's gonna be a scratch on the coin, right? I 100% agree that the lines from the rims to Liberty are from the die.
"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."
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Coin looks great. Love the craning eagle's neck (looks like a chicken) on the reverse and the sharp overdate with the inordinately small 8.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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I say it's a nice looking coin regardless.  |
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United States
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That is a very interesting coin, and the discussion here in this thread was most excellent. I was thinking, "that was when they knew how to do an overdate right!" I've got the 1942/1 Mercuries (from Philly and Denver) and the Denver one requires a lot of close peeping to id it. (Probably why it was recognized much later than the Philly one). This 8 over 7 is obvious, and the rim-to-rim obverse crack almost enables you to see it from across the room.
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