what ever it was, part of it is still stuck in the coin. let me see if i can get a good picture.
i just pulled this out of a bicentennial unc mint flat-pack. the right side of the t is missing. i know that grease clogs cause that, but there is...
this truly was "the greatest generation". they turned this nation into a war factory overnight. the men went to fight an enemy that could not...
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my mother in law came and told me that these actually came from a captured german officer. she also brought me these. very rare flash card set...
3/4 of these were true unopened mint sets. at least in the sense that no person outside of the mint had ever touched the envelopes or proof sets...
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split die, rim to rim die crack, whatever you want to call it. i found a bunch in a roll of small dates i was searching. goes all the way across...
that wood toned at the bottom is SICK!
i guess these count. they were minted to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the start of the civil war. 1961 bashlow restrikes:[IMG][IMG]
i can see how die scratches would make it a lot more difficult to grade a coin, though. hard to tell whats going on without a 10x loupe. and i...
once you get your brain to to remember they are not scratches IN the coin, but die flaws, they add character to the coin(imo).
i still dont know WHEN this happens though. at the beginning, or end of the dies life. how does a die get SO scratched up without them polishing...
note the purple splotch on abes face in the first and third pic. that is one coin, 2-4 another. its wild. this die is FULL of scatches....
it is on a small date.
i thought so too, but coppercoins said 70's were often confused with rpms.
yes. raised lines, not gouged scratches.
i will flip them around if you want. the tops and bottoms of the obverse are exactly the same. all those scratches are on all the coins.
check out the new side by side pics i just put up. these dies were BAD.
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