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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 2120084, member: 1765&quot;]Chris, I&#039;ll hijack this thread, now that the question about the original coin has been answered, and confuse the issue you bring up a little with this picture.&nbsp; (Took a very long time ago with film, scanned from a print.)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~john.baumgart/741c-stdc.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Note that the date is both raised and incuse (as are LIBERTY and IGWT).&nbsp; This coin was struck through a die cap that had been pounded paper thin, then fell onto the planchet slightly out of registration with the die.&nbsp; The date and legends, as well as part of Lincoln&#039;s outline, were pressed through the dropped die cap into the fresh planchet resulting in what you see.&nbsp; Totally unrelated to the original coin, but shows what weird things can happen in the minting process.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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