At the ANA show, a friend of mine managed to find and buy an original set of cancelled CC Morgan dollar dies. He later arranged to go to Dan Carr's Moonlight Mint to have a bunch of Morgan dollars overstruck with these dies. Therefore, between the CC mint, Moonlight Mint, and the mint the overstruck coins were originally struck at (Dan can confirm no CC coins were harmed), we have three mints involved. Four if you count Philadelphia, where these dies were made.
What type of cancellation method was used? It is interesting that device details are still visible through the crosses.
These were overstruck on 84P Morgan Dollars. The cancelation wouldn't obliterate the details of the host coin unless the cancelation was raised off of the dies.
I have never bought something from Carr, but always admired his work. But this piece struck a chord. I just ordered one too.
Two whacks with a cold chisel and a hammer across the die face. The X is deep in the die, and the result is that it doesn't strike out the underlying design.
Interesting. Were these dies never used and therefore never properly hardened or did the mint draw them back after use to cancel them?
To add some historical info on "Mint Trash", which also included used Dies, I've attached an excerpt from the "Introduction" Chapter of the Roger W. Burdette book "From Mine to Mint": The following is a Link from a Nevada Newspaper about the discovery of Cancelled CC Dies: https://mcindependentnews.com/2016/12/coin-dies-carson-city-mint-uncovered/
Wow! Interesting story. I still feel that a person with the right skills could fix the dies and maybe even make a few (very few because the pressure would destroy the dies) coins
