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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3438788, member: 101855&quot;]What I can&#039;t show in the photos of this 1799 dollar is the luster. There is full luster in the protected areas of the around the devices and slightly impaired luster in the fields. I&#039;ve tried to get angle shot of the coin to show it, but the reflections off the slab make that impossible.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins were struck on a screw press powered by human muscle. Some coins were more sharply stuck than others. Here a modern screw press that is in the ANA Museum in Colorado Springs. Working that machine provides one with a lesson as to how the sharpness of the strike can vary, even for coins that are stuck from the same set of dies in the same die state.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]913052[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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