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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kevin Mader, post: 3982954, member: 106826&quot;]During the minting process there are two dies that make the copper planchet into a coin.&nbsp; They are commonly referred to as the anvil and hammer dies (picture a blacksmith hammering on the anvil).&nbsp; One of the dies is fixed and the other travels up and down.&nbsp; Each cycle/strike, a new planchet is fed into the press and the hammer die comes down to trap the planchet between the two dies.&nbsp; If a planchet isn&#039;t in place when the hammer die comes down, the two dies meet.&nbsp; Die transfer happens if the collision is strong enough.&nbsp; Part of the image of the hammer transfers to the anvil die...and visa versa.&nbsp; When a new planchet is fed in and in place for the next strike, the clash marks are stamped into the coin along with the expected design image.&nbsp; It&#039;s not uncommon to see a coin with both the obverse and reverse with the clash witness marks.&nbsp; But if one die is more damaged than the other, that one may be removed to be reworked/polished thereby removing, or obscuring in many instances, the clash mark.&nbsp; On your coin, the obverse image looks pretty clean in your photo.&nbsp; My guess: that die was removed to be fixed.&nbsp; The reverse image shows the witness marks of the die clash.&nbsp; Most noticeable is the throat/chin area of Lincoln appearing in the bay of the Memorial.&nbsp; So I speculate: the original pairing of dies during the clash were separated and a new obverse die inserted to continue work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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