Coins made with rusty dies.

Please post what you have. I'll start with this one.

 

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Are the dies rusty or was that coin face down in the mud for a spell?

 

I've had a couple of those wander under my lens.

1921-P VAM-3B:







VAM-3C2:









VAM-3E:







More to come; hit the image limit....

 

VAM-3F3:







VAM-3N (this one's a toughie, near-impossible to see the little pitting):









VAM-15:







Not done yet....

 

Finally (at least for 1921-P), the VAM-41 twins, the poster children for pitted dies.

VAM-41A:




41B:

 

1833 B-1 25C LDS
Heavy rust pitting on both dies.

 

Some of the French WWII zinc coins are just a horrendous mess. I'm wondering if this is from rusty dies as well? On this one the reverse is pretty bad, but I've seen worse:

 

Wow, I need you to photograph my coins for me. Your photos are Awesome.

John.

 

I agree!

 

Here's mine, - the most coverage on a Morgan I've seen, rust pits in the hair and just about everywhere....
The reverse is pitted as well, I think it was in the vam 5 series but it's been quite some time since I attributed it

 

Quite a bit of rustiness on this one. I'm guessing they tried to polish the dies up a bit and remove that rust, and that's why its Prooflike. NGC 65PL

 

... I'm bored
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