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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 8024918, member: 56859&quot;](continuing the thought)&nbsp; Maybe the die was incompletely engraved when your coin was struck.&nbsp; Maybe the engraver just hadn&#039;t yet rendered the face.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah... I like that possibility <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Makes me want to look for every example of the coin hoping to find a reverse die match, hopefully one <b>with</b> a face!</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add:&nbsp; I looked up the reference you cited, [USER=104741]@Ignoramus Maximus[/USER], and now I&#039;m even more perplexed.&nbsp; It does appear to be a reverse die match (didn&#039;t check-- PSE not working on my new computer) but not an obverse match.&nbsp; Maybe no one noticed the face wasn&#039;t engraved or was only very shallowly engraved and the reverse die was put into use without ever being finished?&nbsp; Might still be interesting to look at all known examples of that reverse die to see if you can see more of a face in any of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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