A friend sent me two photos of an 1892 Barber half obverse. He knows what it is and is testing me. The only clue he gave me is the marks by the nose are raised. I know this is cheating but I've never seen anything like this. What do you all think this could be? Thanks in advance from a cheata...
@Insider Did you try creating an overlay for a possible clash? Note the mark extending diagonally from the nose. The other thing that looks odd is that there appear to be 5 separate marks, 3 of which are in a line and parallel to the other two. Note: Two of these marks are very faint. It's almost as if something was accidentally dragged across the face of the die, skipping, like a needle would skip across a record. Chris
It should be clash marks from the arrows on the reverse. http://www.maddieclashes.com/fifty-cent-overlays/
Let's assume there was a clash that occurred. Don't the marks in the images appear to be raised? Isn't that just the opposite of what they should be......recessed? Also, there doesn't appear to be anything in the overlay that accounts for the mark extending diagonally from the bottom of the nose. Chris
You had me going crazy w/this question. I had to do some thinking. It is a clash. What we are seeing from the nose is an incuse clash from a raised part of the design. This is the normal appearance of a clash. The lines by the nose also resulted from a clash; however, this is not from the arrow shafts. It is caused by the space between the arrow shafts! As I wrote, I've never seen this in almost fifty years of collecting.
