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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 7574751, member: 24314"]Publius2, posted: "EM is Engraving Mark. On the lower coin, there is a mark just above the rightmost star ray that looks like a <b>stray/erroneous</b> engravers <b>mark</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, on the second coin, the letters and stars are not on the same horizontal plane. I would not expect that kind of sloppiness from the mint edge die engravers of this era."</p><p><br /></p><p>Close enough for a term I coined in the 70's. EM = Extra Metal. It was used to describe lumps on a coin (not die rust) that were not part of the design. They appeared where they should not be as in this case. The cause of the mark was not important.</p><p><br /></p><p>Engraving Marks are made by a tool = tool mark such as the spikes often seen at the edge of fakes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 7574751, member: 24314"]Publius2, posted: "EM is Engraving Mark. On the lower coin, there is a mark just above the rightmost star ray that looks like a [B]stray/erroneous[/B] engravers [B]mark[/B]. Also, on the second coin, the letters and stars are not on the same horizontal plane. I would not expect that kind of sloppiness from the mint edge die engravers of this era." Close enough for a term I coined in the 70's. EM = Extra Metal. It was used to describe lumps on a coin (not die rust) that were not part of the design. They appeared where they should not be as in this case. The cause of the mark was not important. Engraving Marks are made by a tool = tool mark such as the spikes often seen at the edge of fakes.[/QUOTE]
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