Ahem..... Colonies. This Patten Sacagawea 2000P features a partially unplated reverse. The 13th feather up is longer than any other feather. It is along the same line as the highest outer feather which has outlines at its peak of its former removal.... next to the outer feather removal at the same time is two remaining images of what looks like different star point attempts. An image of an graded obv/rev was borrowed from PCGS.
I was always miffed at what looked like die deterioration around the whole coin, I still try to justify what happened. The mint melted the rest of the series? There is a great weak strike at the top of the feather where the majority of the action was on the inner and outer part. Alan Herbert, Error Specialist once said that a weak strike will come with die adjustments...
So after looking at 5 of each on PCGS Coin Facts, spanning both the Cheerios variety, and the Regular Strike.... I think there is a great difference in the 13th feather.... either it’s just barely noticeable being longer, or it’s really blushingly much longer....
The PCGS pair included in my post actually shows it was doubled at the base, while mine is not fully attached into the wing as a feather. So I guess that explains how a couple are longer and why they may be earlier proofing strikes.... the unattached “longer” feather needed to have been earlier than even the shorter feather doubled in modification seen on the PCGS proofing subject in which it’s closer to the wing.
