New Quiz. Marks on coins.

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You really are serious with this?

 

Dentile impressions on the chin and bag marks under

 

I don't see a chin. I see a jaw line.

 

Roller marks on cheek from minting process.

 

That is debris from the separation of the Mercury capsule from the rocket.

1878-S Morgan

 

cpm9ball, posted: "I don't see a chin. I see a jaw line."

Call it whatever you wish. Do you wish to take a guess?

 

An arrow showing the way to San Jose

 

Zits and pollen in the air?

 

Nope, but you can keep jerking around in this thread to get more likes from the peanut gallery.

BTW, I recommend you join the NGC forum too. They can sure use nonsense posts to enliven the dead space.

 

Ditto. And you too.

 

Did you have your sense of humor removed?

 

I think I know the answer to this question, but are we allowed to know what type of coin this is?

 

Insider, I know you like colors so I circled what I see:

Red: deep marks in random patterns, most likely contact marks (bag marks, etc - normal hits)
Orange: thin, whispy long lines, most likely from polishing, a wipe, or potentially cleaning (need to see the rest of the coin to confirm)
Purple: deep marks in what appears to be a regular pattern. Could be dentil marks (reed marks) from contact with another coin.
Pink: Long, thin, straight, regular lines. Potentially roller marks.
Blue: short, intermittent parallel marks. I'll be honest, I'm stumped on this one. Perhaps seeing more of the coin might help.
Green: very small, random pattern, scattered across the surface of the coin. Three thoughts on this one, would need to see the rest of the coin and luster to confirm. First, and most likely thought, is some sort of planchet flaw. I've seen the fields of coins where it looked like the planchets had been very roughly tumbled but not polished, and the force of striking didn't completely removed the roughness. It could also be something raised on the surface of the die - pimples from die rust that hadn't been removed. Depending on the mint, rust was a common issue. Third thought, it could be where some corrosion was starting to form on the surface of the coin, eating into it, and the corrosion was removed. I think this is the least likely, because it looks like contact marks are over the top of this area - removal of corrosion indicates it was conserved, and I would hope that a collector would not then cause a huge mark like that.

Well, I'm hoping I got at least some of them right!

 

He said in the OP that it's a Morgan.

If it were a gold coin, my answer would be quite different for one of them (the marks in the green circle look like "sweat marks" I've seen on gold coins, where a few coins are put in a bag and shaken to knock of micro bits of gold, and then that's collected and the coins are returned to circulation. The gold dust is profit). As far as I know, I don't think I've seen silver coins subjected to that.

 

He's trying to post a useful, informative thread with a serious question intended to educate. He got a bunch of goof posts with no useful discussion or information.

No, he didn't loose his sense of humor. He lost his patience because he felt like he was wasting his time.

At least, if I posted a thread like this and got responses like that, that's how I'd feel.

 

I don't care about earning the Likes. People give them to whomever they choose.

I don't care to take a guess because most of your little quizzes are of little help to the vast majority of people asking about oddball errors such as road rash, vice jobs, machine doubling, die deterioration, etc. Why don't you try to help those people?

You, suggesting that I join NGC? That's a trip! Your suggestions are meaningless. I tried that once before, and you see where that got me.

 

Wow, when did you gain the ability to do this??!!

Seriously, you only posted a very small portion of a coin and REALLY expect serious answers. The marks look to me like random circulation marks.

 

Seemed to me as if he were being petulant. You did give a serious answer, but as far as I could tell, it was pretty much that the "marks" could be random chatter. Is it wrong to ask for a poster to be more serious with his postings.

 

Then this is exactly the sort of thread you should pay attention to and learn, instead of derailing it with silly jokes. We have a General Discussion forum for that.

I thought he was quite serious. And, I'll bet there's a lot of useful information you could have learned from this thread.