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Since I ask for the 1919 in LordM's new contest giveaway, I thought that I would post a couple old microscope photos of the things that I find...
Entry post. Wow! another contest that will worm its way into my brain. Since the 1864 3 cent is now gone, Ill go for the 1919 Canada Large Cent....
It's a nice coin and a good keeper because of the grade. You will get very little $ from it, so give to some studious lad, as mentioned above.
I was thinking snowblower, if the OP lives north.
It's just die deterioration as the "filled and worn out" suggests.
I don't see any error, unless you are talking about the teeny bud at the base of th e maple leaf stems.
As with the last contest, please count me in. My choice stays the same, the US 2 cents, an important 100th anniversary for something in my life.
The Kennedy half may have started out valid, but it looks like someone wanted to make it more intense.
I think that it's die deterioration in the Liberty
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I don't think anything happened at the mint. It was exposed to something environmental. The coin appears to show some wear on it, so it's not...
I think that it's die deterioration doubling, not a double die. Very little, if any, premium for any coin/any country DDD.
I'd say 1941 and gouged on the 4.
Now, for the Nth time, I will post this link to Wexler's works, one of the 3 top error/variety experts with formal journals/studies/publications...
If 1976, it's not silver.
Vise job, or leather strip and big hammer, impressing this Lincoln with another coin's date.
One questions like this, I always post this link for "worthless doubling". Go to the bottom or the left column to see the examples....
A little die deterioration, but tough to call it doubling of any type. Definitely not DDO
Back a few years ago (maybe 10-20) some people would air-blast coins with talc to remove surface grunge/marks. It was like sand-blast, but talc...
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