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Strange Impressions On My Coin

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 Posted 01/16/2010  8:06 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add zeewool to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I posted a couple of pictures of this coin before, but for the purpose of honing the grading skills of the members here.

There are some interesting features to this coin though, both obverse and reverse.

The obverse features extensive die cracks and breaks, while the reverse contains not only it's own share of cracks, but raised impressions that baffle many a folk as to their origin.

On dollars, people call them denticle impressions, on bust halves however, I am not sure what the correct term is since bust halves have 'milling' rather than denticles.

These raised impressions, while very similar on both dollars and halves, I feel have different causes due to the different presses that created them.

On this coin, there are several rows of these raised impressions that range through 'AMERICA', below the same, and into the eagle's left wing.

The coin is dark, so I have enhanced the lighting to see the features better.





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 Posted 01/16/2010  8:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ozland to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
They look like denticle impressions to me irrespective of what they maybe called.
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A denticle impression by any other name is still a denticle impression?
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Yes, to answer my own question, but there is a difference. I know that you are unable to see it because I was unable to get good scans, but these are more than just 3-5 impression segments as are encountered on dollars.

These (let's call them) denticle impressions, number 15-18 unbroken segment impressions in three distinct rows. These unbroken segments were caused by misaligned dies of a crude early press. I have two of these same coins and the impressions are identical; they are in the die.

They are also in parallel rows unlike broken segments that may wander in several directions at random intervals as on a dollar.

No, I am not going to enter into a debate about denticle impressions. I am merely saying that sometimes things may not always be equal just because they appear to be similar.
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