In the spirit of my friend Insider’s quizzes I have one for this weekend…

ANACS described this example as “Repaired”; the question is do you think their description is accurate based on the images and if so, what was the method(s) used to repair this example?

I offer up more images than in other quizzes and do not ask anyone to hold their responses…

 

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600 coins were called back to attempt to remove Goldbrects name from over the date as it was too big. They settled on placing his initials below the shield. This coin looks like one that made to circulation?

 

To me repaired would imply the addition of metal, tooling & engraving in an attempt to make the coin look closer to how it was minted.

 

An attempt to smooth out some graffiti?

 

OK, any clue here?

 

I've never seen a label like that, so it doesn't make any sense to me. Restrike? PF 20? Repaired? I fail this quiz. Oh well.

 

There's some suspicious roughness above the head. Could it be a filled hole, or perhaps a repair to grafitti?

 

If this is Die Alignment IV, then the rough spot above her head would be opposite of the OF on the reverse, I think. So a hole that was located above the head and through the upper left serif of the F has been repaired?

Or else I need another beer.

 

Another beer is always the answer! But you are correct with your alignment note and "aligns" with my two close up images...

 

Drinks on the house...........!

Peter?

 

Evening clue- I sent this one in a group for metallurgical testing at an accredited Lab in Pennsylvania and had the following results:



I will state my “answer” Monday evening…

 

Weight for a Goby is 26.73-26.96 grams. Tad under weight?

 

Probably splitting hairs on a worn example, but the silver % is shown as 89.24 per the Red Book...

 

The upper left of F does appear squared off versus the other one, but I can't see anything corresponding on the obverse. If it's a repaired hole, they did a good job, and the hole must have been rather small.

 

And nothing from @Insider ...

 

He's being polite and letting all us novices guess first...

 

Thanks for sharing. I wasn’t good at tests

 

Nice raise

 

Well, the answer is NOTHING was done to this example…

The TPG in their wisdom caught the “tooled F” and noted the repair, BUT the repair was done to a different coin.

The genuine example had a small hole that was pretty well repaired prior to dies being made to strike a series of very deceptive counterfeits, which all that I have documented found their way into genuine TPG slabs, some sold in very prominent auctions as such.



My example actually shipped from China via the Netherlands; as I noted I included it with some other early struck fakes for metalogical testing at an accredited Lab in Pennsylvania. The data indicated my example was not coined with 1836 coin silver…

 

Good one! I grew suspicious at the metallurgical results and knowing your specialty, but couldn't quite put two and two together. I'm amazed that you tracked it back to the original holed example. I see lots of marks duplicated.