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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3630793, member: 77814&quot;]My brain is asleep right now ... lol</p><p><br /></p><p>but here is an overlay of the image for die clash</p><p>keep in mind the die goes deep at the middle of the building (in order for the metal to bulge out in the final product, it&#039;s reversed).&nbsp; and thus the bust also goes deep.&nbsp; So most die clashes occur around the edges of the respective &quot;images&quot;</p><p>For your dime, the berries protruded out enough to affect the incused eye area which wasn&#039;t as deep as the berries were high (apparently, I haven&#039;t measured them) <a href="http://www.maddieclashes.com/ten-cent-overlays/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.maddieclashes.com/ten-cent-overlays/" rel="nofollow">http://www.maddieclashes.com/ten-cent-overlays/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.maddieclashes.com/five-cent-overlays/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.maddieclashes.com/five-cent-overlays/" rel="nofollow">http://www.maddieclashes.com/five-cent-overlays/</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]973802[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>you have to differentiate this from damage.</p><p>There is significant circulation damage, stains and wear on your nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also if you look around the verbage around the edge you&#039;ll see the striations &amp; bumps which is from die deterioration .. those flows of planchet metal etching the die and in instances bumps which become permanent and ever increasing.</p><p><br /></p><p>as the die deteriorates your get changes around the main objects too - the bust and the building.&nbsp; This image on this page shows more radical change.</p><p>keep in mind, each die deteriorates differently, so this link is *one* example and it varies as much as there are dies ...</p><p><a href="http://www.error-ref.com/orange-peel-texture/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.error-ref.com/orange-peel-texture/" rel="nofollow">http://www.error-ref.com/orange-peel-texture/</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]973805[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at the visual aspect of the above image, and your image.</p><p>your coin shows die deterioration not just around the outer edge and the letters, etc. but also around the main subjects in the middle in a circle around the monticello.</p><p><br /></p><p>Die Deterioration is an ever evolving (of damage) to the die and the result to the coins.&nbsp; You&#039;ll have to understand the &quot;evolution&quot; of deterioration from the first coin to the 10,000th coin.&nbsp; The end result is a die that no longer flat &quot;flat fields&quot;, has concave sections around areas of heavy metal flow (around the deep/large sections of the die), and metal flow.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you had all the coins made from one singular die, you could technical sort batches them in order of production.&nbsp; From nice &quot;crisp&quot; details, to something that resembles a blob and everything in between.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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