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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Moderator
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Not an error,die wear. John1 
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Pillar of the Community
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936 Posts |
realy but I think its awesome looking is it collectible
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Moderator
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Very worn dies. Collectable if you like it, no numismatic premium associate with this die state.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yes, very worn die. Certainly, keep it if you like it.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nice example of this phenomenon!
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Moderator
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great looking radial flow lines.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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These are like die events. Just like wrinkles remind us of age, these flow lines are die events. Several times the die will be polished to give the fields a face lift, but this thins the fields and the devices get a bit smaller after each polishing. Just part of the die aging process. They are a rescue of a die to continue to use these dies to strike more coins. (Only we notice the differences from the polishing how it affects the coins struck with these dies) But knowing what the changes are, helps us to know what we are looking at when searching coins. That is what that is, and you move on to the next coin. 54% of the coins are struck on the later die life of these coins. Thus I appreciate the fresher dies a lot more than the older die state coins. 
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Pillar of the Community
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interesting there are that many 54 percent thats a lot of messed up coins its hard to to imagine that there are that many out in pocket change thats probably why I like it is because I'm a little messed up myself sometimes
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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well they do get polished off, and this weakens the devices making them smaller and distorted even more. Just part of the aging process.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Die event, not an error. No numismatic value. 
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Pillar of the Community
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You're still interesting to me it's kind of crazy that there are than many of them out there
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