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<p>[QUOTE="Brian Nguyen, post: 3154772, member: 96027"]I totally understand what you're seeing. I was once there. But, first you need to know and undersrand the processes of how the coins are being strike. The die aging (EDS,MDS,LDS,and VLDS) and etc.</p><p>Your coins was struck from a worn die. These are caused by constant wear and cleaning from clashed dies. Over cleaning and wear. What happens is that the fields meet the letters have lost that difference in sharpness that the die had when it was in Early Die State. In the Very Late Die State the field and the letters look like show drifts that make the filed and devices that flow. This is caused by the dies continue to wear, coin after coin, taking more and more off the die, so the crispness it had from the beginning is gone.</p><p>I'm by no mean a varieties expert, far from it (I'm an Error Guy), but I'd read, listen and absorb all the info from any knowledgable members, and there are still so much to learn. Be patients and learn from others are the key to success.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Brian Nguyen, post: 3154772, member: 96027"]I totally understand what you're seeing. I was once there. But, first you need to know and undersrand the processes of how the coins are being strike. The die aging (EDS,MDS,LDS,and VLDS) and etc. Your coins was struck from a worn die. These are caused by constant wear and cleaning from clashed dies. Over cleaning and wear. What happens is that the fields meet the letters have lost that difference in sharpness that the die had when it was in Early Die State. In the Very Late Die State the field and the letters look like show drifts that make the filed and devices that flow. This is caused by the dies continue to wear, coin after coin, taking more and more off the die, so the crispness it had from the beginning is gone. I'm by no mean a varieties expert, far from it (I'm an Error Guy), but I'd read, listen and absorb all the info from any knowledgable members, and there are still so much to learn. Be patients and learn from others are the key to success.[/QUOTE]
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