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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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It looks to be a struck through and by the pics of the edge I believe it's legit.
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Pillar of the Community
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I agree it's struck thru *something*. any clue what? it looks like cloth, but it wouldn't have that shape. It looks like it was something round, but it wasn't another coin.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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It's hard to say.Looks as though another planchet slid in after the coin was struck and then it was struck again.
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Pillar of the Community
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Could of been a piece of very thin metal like tin. Something round like a cent.
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Very interesting. I'd think that something as thick as another planchet would prevent any reverse strike at all, so whatever got in there must be thinner.
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm thinking that the other planchet slid in AFTER the coin was struck and caused the die to strike again.It may have just stuck in the die.
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Bedrock of the Community
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It looks like it was struck through a split planchet. Another planchat slpit into two layers due to a severe lamination and one of those thin layers got between the dies along with this coin. The thinness of the split planchet allowed the design to show through. Superdave is right on that, a full thickness planchet would have just resulted in an indentation with no design bleed through.
Striking through another planchet as a second strike would have resulted in a flattening of the design, but not a blurring, also there would probably be traces of the second strike in those area not protected by the other planchet.
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Pillar of the Community
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I am at as much a loss as anyone else, but. I believe the blank was not completely punched thru, , and shifted in the opposite direction of the crescent, then was completely punched out. I don't know what the upset mill would have done to the ends of the crescent but, the rest of the coin looks like it was struck thru a rag, a very greasy rag. The thin looking area at the edge K-12 position, migh have been the "soft area opposite a Cud on the reverse. It is anybodys guess. Mike Diamond might have a good explanation for this coin. Dick |
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