Good morning CoinTalk! I have been looking at some presidential dollar coins (pre-2009) recently and I have a question about the Edge Lettering process that I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable than myself can help me understand. I've read how the Edge Lettering is applied, which is why the placement of this specific delimiter baffles me. How does a delimiter get misplaced this far up the side of the coin without affecting any of the other edge lettering? I'm struggling to comprehend how this could happen. Maybe the machine bounced or something? The delimiter in question is in the last picture. Drop some knowledge on me brethren.
Ditto - whats a delimiter ? found this Beginning with the William Henry Harrison Presidential $1 Coin next year, “In God We Trust” will appear on the obverse of all Presidential $1 Coins. As a result, the edge lettering of the 2009 Presidential $1 Coins will be slightly different from that of 2007 and 2008. Where currently there are single dots (delimiters) between the inscriptions, in 2009 there will be three stars between “E Pluribus Unum” and the mint mark and 10 stars between the year of minting and “E Pluribus Unum.”
That is good knowledge. Thank you. But I read this exact paragraph this morning while I was trying to fogure out the process lol my question is what could cause discrepancies in the locations of the delimiters. I've seen plenty of dollar coins and this is the first I've seen where one delimiter is way higher up the coin than the other, also the first I have seen this far off center. I'm trying to figure out how this could even happen during the edge lettering process. Does anybody have any ideas? (Not value hunting, just curious as to the ways this can happen.)
I feel like that would be philly, and travelling the 500+ miles during the covid pandemic isn't something I intend to do lol maybe after everything settles down though, I'd love to see the inside of the mint.
