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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1148416, member: 26302"]Hmm, I thought I saw it in the eyes clearest, but also in the crown, lettering, and nose/mouth. Lookes like struck one way, die rotated, and then another strike. Yes usually that mint is not great, but I have never seen THAT severely badly engraved die, most of the time just bad strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree overstrikes are common, (I have a poor coin struck, overstruck, quartered, and struck again). Looks like a lump of crud really, but with that abuse its hard to blame it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1148416, member: 26302"]Hmm, I thought I saw it in the eyes clearest, but also in the crown, lettering, and nose/mouth. Lookes like struck one way, die rotated, and then another strike. Yes usually that mint is not great, but I have never seen THAT severely badly engraved die, most of the time just bad strikes. I agree overstrikes are common, (I have a poor coin struck, overstruck, quartered, and struck again). Looks like a lump of crud really, but with that abuse its hard to blame it.[/QUOTE]
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