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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3470847, member: 19463"]To my eye, the zumbly and Terence Cheesman blanks were both caused by the same 'two blanks stuck' situation. Both show the same raised area where the two did not align exactly. Mine is a Valerian.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]923198[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Now the big question is why we don't have a blank obverse example since one would have been created with each blank reverse. Perhaps that second one stuck in the reverse die and was restruck??? Perhaps there was a rule that a coin had to have an obverse to be legal tender but one with no reverse was no problem??? Would we not love to have a rule book issued to cover the operations of a mint that spelled out all such matters?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3470847, member: 19463"]To my eye, the zumbly and Terence Cheesman blanks were both caused by the same 'two blanks stuck' situation. Both show the same raised area where the two did not align exactly. Mine is a Valerian. [ATTACH=full]923198[/ATTACH] Now the big question is why we don't have a blank obverse example since one would have been created with each blank reverse. Perhaps that second one stuck in the reverse die and was restruck??? Perhaps there was a rule that a coin had to have an obverse to be legal tender but one with no reverse was no problem??? Would we not love to have a rule book issued to cover the operations of a mint that spelled out all such matters?[/QUOTE]
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