Hello. Hello. Hope all of you are doing well. I have been balls to the wall with work lately. The last 3 weeks only 2 days off and swinging 10 - 12 hr days. So here is my latest stumble or trip. ( I use these words instead of "find". Not sure to have "found" anything, but it has tripped me up and got me to stop and do a double take LOL) Strike through grease or just PMD? The coin is not in the best of conditions. Hey all you picture snobs!! How dod I do? Wink wink But sincerely hope you all enjoy your holidays with family and friends!
Happy Thanksgiving. The closeup's a bit blurry, but the first two pics look good. Better than I could manage under most circumstances.
Hello stranger, Here is something I learned last year. Not all coins missing details are due to filled dies or strike thru errors. Their planchets are out of tolerance. I believe your coin is one of these. All sorts of things can cause a coin's details to be missing. Error Ref. com. is your friend. Your coin has a missing letter. it is the first thing I noticed. Another member with a better eye for detail than me noticed Lincoln's head is also weak! So is his coat. Therefore, IMO, all three flats and missing details are probably the result of a planchet that was out of tolerance. So even a fully struck coin from a properly adjusted coin press will show this kind of weakness. Happy Thanksgiving! PS Photos good but magnified image is out of focus. All collectors should have a small digital scale (under $30) at the minimum.
So, if a planchet was out of tolerance, wouldn't both sides show some form of weakness die to striking pressure? Here is what I think I see. It looks like there is a slight ridge ring forming right thru the I in Liberty. So, I believe DDD is the culprit there. Next would be just a simple weaker than normal strike on the obverse, or debris as the reverse is unaffected.
Makes sense to me; however, IMO, what you are calling a ridge is a depression into the surface. As for the weakness on one side, if I had not seen several Kennedy 50c that looked like Strike Thrus until they were found to be underweight, I would not have posted. On those coins, one side was normal. Anyway, it was a shocker to find what I thought all those years (strike thru's) was not always true. PS DDD? is that like AAA? I'm not up to snuff on chat room stuff.
DDD Die deterioration doubling. I got a little excited and added one to many D's. Interesting seems we need a weight.
View attachment 1589106 This tip goes for all of you. Please clean the paaint and dust off yor scale pan. Then make sure your scale is accurate. Most of these little ones are pretty good up to 50 grams. You'll need one that goes to hundredths of a gram. This one does not. So the coin could reasonably weigh 2.39 to 2.51 grams. Becaues of how it looks, my guess is it is slightly underweight. Get a set of small weights to check the accuracy of the scale. They are inexpensive and made in China as are the scales.
