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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1807419, member: 19463&quot;]The distortion is caused by the very thin flan not providing enough metal to fill both dies.&nbsp; You see ghosts of each side on the other and each coin made from this die set will be a bit different according to how hard and evenly it was struck.&nbsp;&nbsp; If a coin was well struck on a blank even a little thicker, it will show much better detail and detail is very important to value.&nbsp; This coin has a nice strong strike of the date (year 13 - reverse left) but is weak on the city name (reverse right) and terrible on the portrait.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would value the coin at 1/4 of a better struck one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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