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joe_77 Valued Member Italy 284 Posts	Posted 01/10/2024 12:53 pm Thank you all! Quote: The rim separation at the top of the reverse is extremely unusual Would that be the line going parallel with the rim of the coin? Starts at the E of UNITED and ends almost at the F of FIVE? Quote: Photos in that orientation, don't help at all Is there a particular way to shoot that will help you? Still learning how to best shoot coins! Quote: lamination peel at K2 below LIB I was about to post a whole obverse in the skewed orientation, maybe this detail shows better the lamination peel? Beware: the haziness in the middle is due to photo stacking. Quote: A die clash is when..... Thanks kbbpll for explaining !! Report this Post to the Staff
joe_77 Valued Member Italy 284 Posts	Posted 01/10/2024 1:12 pm Some more details for the obverse. To my unexperienced eyes I see a bulge under the chin (could be the die strike?) .. I also see a depression behind the neck? .. and a peel on the left of the braid? ......fascinating what can be seen under high magnification!..... Edited by joe_77 01/10/2024 1:13 pm Report this Post to the Staff
paralyse Bedrock of the Community United States 12057 Posts	Posted 01/10/2024 6:06 pm Yes, multiple lamination peels It almost looks like the start of a split planchet with that rim separation (where a layer of the planchet peels away) Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Report this Post to the Staff
joe_77 Valued Member Italy 284 Posts	Posted 01/13/2024 03:26 am Thanks for the additional thoughts paralyse! So, let me repeat the exercise I tired yesterday! This time going to pcgs.com, price guide puts a dollar amount between 20 and 35 (grade b/w 40 and 50). I haven't completely understood if all the flaws we talked about (die strike, peeling) increase or are invariant (or even detrimental) to the value? Then there's the cleaning argument which will probably be detrimental. What would you sell this coin for? PS: disclaimer, I'm not selling it obviously, just going full circle! Report this Post to the Staff
numismatic student Bedrock of the Community United States 11896 Posts	Posted 01/13/2024 12:54 pm Regardless of the reason, the surfaces shown in the original pictures an unoriginal and unattractive. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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