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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 24831305, member: 77413&quot;]I am not sure that is die wear on the O of ONE.</p><p><br /></p><p>The opposite side of the planchet is where the main part of Lincoln’s bust is formed. There is only so much metal available, so I expect that sometimes the O gets starved of metal and is simply not filled up during the strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can compare the clarity and the smoothness of the C just below it to the rough surface of the O. The copper was pushed all the way up into the C and its surface was smoothed and flattened once it reached the full depth of the C in the die. On the O, it is really the raw surface of the planchet pushed partway into the cavity in the die, so it doesn’t fully form the O. You can see how the surface of the raw planchet looks just like the flat surface of the O.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1590173[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Detail of a similarly struck reverse. You can see that the O is not full height above the field, compared to the C.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1590176[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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