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Pillar of the Community
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Bust is broken at the bottom and rim has a Cud where the VDB nomally is found. Its a shame the reverse has a corrosion spot. nlp   |
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Looks like it to me nlp. Nice. Yeah, too bad on the corrosion.
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Pillar of the Community
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I have a lot of trouble looking at pictures, trying to determine what I am looking at. This looks more like a die crack running into a lamination error to me than a Cud. |
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Okay, I look at this thing a second time, and it looks like a different coin. Now it looks like a Cud to me. I am really starting to worry about me. (You didn't switch coins on me did you nip)? Heh, heh. |
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Pillar of the Community
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This coin has a Cud visible and it also (to the right of the Cud)retained a portion of the broken die and that is what is evident by the die crack. A few more strikes and the Cud would have likely doubled in size if a Mint mechanic did not catch the problem first. It's a nice Cud despite the reverse of the coin. That does hurt the value some but it is a neat coin anyway:-) Have Fun, Bill |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Very nice steelie Cud, I have never seen one of those before  The combination of Cud and Retained Cud makes it quite interesting IMO. |
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Most of the problems are my pictures. I've been taking photos for 2 hours now tweeking and forgetting what I tweeked(even after writing it down). I'm trying to achieve more depth and clarity so the picture doesn't fuzz out or lose focus as the devices approach the fields. I'll keep working on it. nlp
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No nip, your pictures are fine. Excellent pictures in fact. The problem was with me. I had a depth perception problem the first time I looked at the Cud, and it looked like a big chip out of the coin rather than a Cud. I looked at it again a few minutes later, and I saw the same picture in a totally different way. The other problem is also nothing to do with the pictures, but with semantics. I call a die crack a die crack, but others may view this same thing as a Retained Cud. To me, if there is no metal flow over the still attatched portion of the die that the crack segregates, then it is still a just a crack. It is not really a problem though, folks can call this whatever they want to, just like I will continue to do. |
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Posted 01/30/2010 8:45 pm
