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<p>[QUOTE="Blasty, post: 8209620, member: 38375"]Until you pointed out the missing parts on Monticello, I would have also said it was just worn from looking at the letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is most curious. I'm going to throw out a guess that excessive die polishing removed those details. Maybe grease, but I'd imagine it flowing into the deeper (on the die) details during striking and leaving some trace of the missing areas intact. I edited this from "weak strike" since the shallower details should have struck up first. Was polishing of used dies still a thing in 1971?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blasty, post: 8209620, member: 38375"]Until you pointed out the missing parts on Monticello, I would have also said it was just worn from looking at the letters. This is most curious. I'm going to throw out a guess that excessive die polishing removed those details. Maybe grease, but I'd imagine it flowing into the deeper (on the die) details during striking and leaving some trace of the missing areas intact. I edited this from "weak strike" since the shallower details should have struck up first. Was polishing of used dies still a thing in 1971?[/QUOTE]
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