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Pillar of the Community
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Looking closer at coins for Double Dies I stumbled into this 1974 5 cent with this Cameo effect doubling. This is a very supper cool coin and wonder how this happened.  |
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Very interesting! I hope we learn more about it.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Interesting!
Can you post full coin pics please?
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
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The denticles seen to be affected as well. Very interesting. I speculate possibly water drops on plachet when struck. I can think of nothing else so localized. Another spectacular coin. Thanks for sharing.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very interesting!  Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
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My money is on; some of the die plating chipping off. Seems it's called mortar set (no idea why such a strange name).
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Pillar of the Community
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called mortar set because the first ones appearing about eighty years ago looked like a blob of mortar, had been laid down and a nice crisp letter had been set in it, something people of the time could relate to
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
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I think these are like the colored coins that the mint is putting out, where the colors overlap or don't adequately fill the correct area. I'm not so sure that they are actually striking coins with a "cameo" die, but rather applying acid or something on areas that are supposed to be cameo .... applied after the strike.
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Pillar of the Community
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I do not think the dies were plated in 1974.
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I do not think the dies were plated in 1974 They most certainly were. I have seen the used dies at the currency museum. I also see this in nickel dollars as late as 1986. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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