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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LEG END, post: 1225314, member: 26139&quot;]<span style="color: #222222">It has taken hundreds of examples to find this coin. In early examples, I found what I called &quot;Striated&quot; polishing- die gouges created by master craftsman&#039;s tools that looks like gouges- random. After finding over ten of the same gouges, I decided it was a die pair example, and sent some to Honorable Mr Crawford, who has assigned the first examples I sent #1-#5. I got stuck there though, as I was certain that some of the polishing on the &quot;High Striated&quot; (the polishing occurred mainly above the building on the reverse) was done to conceal some type of error. There is also a low striated, and now, with the recent batch of fifty circulated I got in, a very low striated example. All are different dies for the reverse. The polishing on the High Striated really piqued my interest: What were they trying to NOT say about the wide AM in this example? I finally got two clean examples. What it shows is what <u><i>could be</i></u> the remnants of a &quot;U&quot; that was previously struck. In this case, it is so far from the original, it would be a stupendous doubled die they polished off, but that&#039;s for a keen attributer like Mr Crawford. It is a crescent detail strikingly like the &quot;U&quot; in E PLURIBUS UNUM,&nbsp; just above and to the right. And If they wanted to polish it off, then it was on the die at some point. The die itself may have been strongly doubled. I always thought they used a reverse of 1999 for this example of the 2000 wide AM, but have been informed otherwise. However, it may just be a different 2000 Wide AM die they used and which created a spectacular doubled example that they wanted squashed. Any way I wanted you all to see it. Mr Crawford will see it next week, and I will keep y&#039;all posted. If it is a doubled with a detail polished off, then the High Striateds with these markers are a DDR. With Die Polished details. I have put a pic of the completely polished as well as the crescent detail, before polishing.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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