Hey everyone, Is this a DDO MD, DD? I'm having trouble identifying due to reverse what is in between columns and initials. Thanks for the help
Looks like St. Elmo's fire surrounding entire memorial on reverse but area around initials is really puzzling.
I took the liberty and played with the pic and didn't see a whole lot . The only "St. Elmo's Fire " I see is on my TV dvd player . Goood pic by the way . Value = 1 Cent .
Pics don't show the deep red patina due to exposure. Until I put it under loop or scope the die marks are invisible. I hope patina shows with these pics.
Oh WoW , I've seen that before . Forgot what that is. I check my many sources . Update : that might be linear plating blisters. I call my friend @paddyman98 for verification.
You may have (Paddyman will know) one of those reverses showing an 'almost floating' roof. Those usually have something strange going on with the initials. I don't know about others with younger peepers, but I have difficulty seeing the coin well when it is shot through a flip. p.s. The staple ends showing on the reverse of your flip look dangerous.
@SensibleSal66 A "Floating roof" is just a polished die that has a few details missing. Notice that the part of the roof that goes missing is close to the field, so it can easily be polished away if the technician is trying to removed damage or a clash. So you could have varying degrees of floaters, just like you can have varying degrees of other missing areas due to die polish. Also, linear plating blisters are only found on copper plated zinc cents. Cents struck in 1970 are copper. The marks on the OP coin are polish lines
Thanks for the feedback everyone and I have put aside floating roof from 1969 and 1971 but this is the first from 1970. Thank you LAcointessa for the heads up on staples. Pressed them flat so they can't do any harm.
Just to add, those are polish lines. If you look at the perimeter, and you can see this clearly in your closeup of the initials, the surrounding field is wrinkled. That's from a fatigued die. That's why they polished it.
Gee, one has to be as careful when talking about coins as one is in other disciplines. I said maybe your coin had an"almost floating roof" because one day I saw @paddyman98 refer to a coin that had an extremely light indication of roof supports as an "almost floating roof." Just for the record, I did not mean for you to take my mention of that as a diagnosis of your coin. I was just mentioning that your roof supports looked quite light. But my eyesight seems to be worsening by the day. I may have to give up trying to see what I can make out when looking at coins, especially in photographs on-line. Sorry if I caused any confusion.
