O108a, with the heavy die clashes. A difficult coin to image, as the die clashes reflect light at odd angles, and there is a big die bulge to the...
agree with the die clashes. weak stars are very common in this series; in fact Bowers has written that he has never seen a complete set of MS 3...
Interesting tokens. They must be pretty fragile, being hollow. Thanks for the election history, too. My old high school history teacher liked...
would roller marks look any different? How so?
There seems to be a slight curve to the group of cheek marks, so maybe from a coin counting machine. I don't think anyone has mentioned roller...
What makes the most sense to me is some debris imbedded in the rollers used to flatten the metal strips.
Thanks for telling us that the marks of interest are into the surface and not raised. That would be helpful to know from the first post; I don't...
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Nice luster. 62?
Die polish marks in the fields. I don't like the term "die polish" as polish suggests a mirror like surface, prepared with care. Something like...
Me too!
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I think a lot of these don't have a great strike. On mine, the turret looks like a fancy teapot.
The smokie Linkie Pinnie?
I don't think it's a fake, but I wonder if the mark across the neck is a scratch, that was tooled in the middle to smooth it out, and the coin...
My guess, before I saw the grade was 63. On the fence about PL.
To the unknown collector who bought these coins originally.. presumably raw... Good eye sir!!
3x 66? Is that a trifecta or what??
some members know how to do this, but I don't. Others have made YouTube videos, then posted a link.
for comparison, here is my VF35 (note the same obv. die, double punched T) [IMG][IMG]
Wow, nice coin! Certainly AU details from the photos, and if it has the luster...!!!
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