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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2376126, member: 1892&quot;]Looks like I was prophetic, mentioning San Francisco 1921&#039;s and die wear. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Do me a favor? Eyeball the area around the arrow fletches and adjacent to the wreath about to the arrowheads. I see what *could* maybe be pitting in your reverse image, and there are some 1921-S reverses known for die pitting. None of the known ones seem to match this pattern, but if it&#039;s actually pitting it&#039;ll be something to go on. If you&#039;re not familiar with pitting, it&#039;s the product of dies rusting while in storage. Pits rusted into the dies, leading to tiny raised dots on the surface of the struck coin. Under your eye and a bit of magnification, they stand out because that stuff <i>ain&#039;t supposed to be there</i>. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the most egregious example of pitting on a Morgan Dollar - and the most egregious example of die polishing - known, the 1921-P VAM-41B. It&#039;s mindblowing - <b>everything you see wrong is <i>on the die</i></b>. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]486499[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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