Yes, I'd still like to see it, if only to get hands-on experienced with a dropped filling on the edge of a coin.
The incuse "T" would have had to have been on the edge of the coin before the edge lettering was applied. As I said earlier, the dies are...
I communicated with Ken Potter and he seems to have covered all the bases, as far as looking for any signs of a contact mark. After our e-mail...
Ignore the last post. I used a Monroe dollar in my experiment and the obverse lettering is different, and smaller, in the Polk issue. The T's of...
One thing I now notice is that the T of PRESIDENT is considerably larger than the T on the edge of your Polk dollar. Both the normal raised T and...
Here's a contact mark from the T of PRESIDENT that I produced without much care or effort. [IMG] There are telltale signs it's a contact...
I'd be glad to inspect your Polk dollar, if you're game. -- Mike
I don't involve myself with minor die varieties. It would be better to contact James Wiles or BJ Neff or several other people I could name.
If it is a dropped letter then it's the first legitimate example I've seen on the edge of any dollar coin. But such an error is possible since...
It's hard to say, since the blemish is so small. As 19Lyds says, it's too small to be of any interest.
It's either machine doubling, die deterioration doubling, or a combination of the two. Machine doubling is the same thing as strike doubling,...
It's a combination of a broadstrike and a partial collar error. It could be called and incomplete partial collar error, since part of the coin's...
Although the raised line didn't appear to flex, the following observations are consistent with it being a blister: 1) there are shorter raised...
Yes, it's a struck-in rim burr. An unusually long one, to boot.
It's a "squeeze job". The quarter was compressed between a dime and a hard, flat surface, like a vise or a clamp.
Machine doubling on the ear and most probably a linear plating blister running through the date.
This layer of silvery metal was added after the coin left the Mint.
The corrosive liquid eats away at all parts of the coin, including the edge. So its diameter with shrink over time.
Blurred, thinned design elements, perfect centering, an abnormally small size, and a thin-to-vanishing rim are all characteristic of acid jobs....
This cent had rattled around in the fins of an industrial dryer for a long period of time. It's not a mint error.
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