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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bobmac010, post: 158442, member: 6450&quot;]Satootoko:</p><p>I went to a local jewelers, and he weighed it in at 2.5g, considerably less than the original minted 3.11g. Is it possible that the extra mass was somehow stripped from the blank during this process, or do you think that it is after minting damage? I cannot see how the face cannot be damaged during any alterations to the back, but that is why I am here. I am not by any means familiar with coins. Just REALLY curious.</p><p>LSM:</p><p>What is a split after strike? Two blanks in the same dye? The back looks like it was pressed into a non-machined surface, what I would imagine to be the &quot;cradle&quot; for the other dye, as if the die came out of the press or something, (just grabbing at straws, I really want it to be mint oddity...). It does not look like it was pressed against another blank, (forgive me for not using proper terminology).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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