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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kevin Mader, post: 6530600, member: 106826&quot;]As our fellow enthusiasts noted, an overworked die that saw a clash or two.&nbsp; In your opening photos, the areas to the left and right of the dome have heavy grooves made when removing a decent clash.&nbsp; If you go to Maddieclashes, you will see a number of clashed nickels that will give you an idea on how heavy a hand a toolmaker would need to obscure the clash.&nbsp; The area at the bridge of Jefferson&#039;s nose is the same case.&nbsp; It&#039;s quite possible that the hammer and anvil dies that clashed were an ordered pair and were both &#039;cleaned up&#039; to remove the witness marks from the clash.&nbsp; Again, a heavy hand removed material from the die face and along with die attrition, details and devices were lost.&nbsp; What would be awesome would be to see the first few nickels with the fresh clash marks in them.&nbsp; Probably a fairly strong clash initially, but with the touching up of the dies and wear...made obscured to the average person.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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