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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 427559, member: 15062&quot;]As Arte Johnson woud say - Veerrrry Interesting!!&nbsp; (obscure reference)</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the date - the spacing looks okay to me.&nbsp; At least it matches the 1938s I have.&nbsp; It&#039;s just that the weak side of the 8 gives the illusion that it&#039;s further away from the 3 than it really is.&nbsp; If you look close at the blowup you can see the distance between the 3 and 8 are consistent with the spacing of the 1 and 9 and the 9 and 3.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lettering in the motto is something else.&nbsp; If you look closely it appears that each letter was pushed up and to the left - except for the ST in TRUST.&nbsp; Those two letters seem to have been cut off cleanly at the top.&nbsp; It&#039;s possible that they, too, were damaged the same as the others with the pushed up metal having broken off.</p><p><br /></p><p>The question is what caused the damage.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think it&#039;s accidental.&nbsp; If it were there would almost certainly be marks in the field below each letter, and on the top of Lincoln&#039;s head.&nbsp; Also the direction of the metal flow suggests an upward and leftward rotational force.&nbsp; The suggestion that another coin may have jammed this one would that coin likely push in a single direction, with all of the letters being deformed straight in one direction, i.e., the left letters moved to the their upper right, the right letters moved to their upper left and the middle letters moved straight up. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think that <b>desertgem</b> is right in that someone did this deliberately, for whatever reason.&nbsp; That might explain why all of the letters are pushed in the same direction - the person doing it would do one letter at a time, working in a single direction and then rotating the coin to the next letter and working in the same direction again.&nbsp; The only flaw in this reasoning is why would he have stopped after having gone this far?</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be instructive to see a microscopic closeup of the area under the lettering.&nbsp; Perhaps <b>billzack </b>could give us some insight on the processes of doing something like this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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