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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 3788985, member: 59677&quot;]PIDT</p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody actually really answered what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>On certain coins - and my pet series the three cent silver are notorious for it - the dies are so overused that parts of the design literally migrate over time through the planchet.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at an 1852 3 cent silver you will often see a ghost of the C on the obverse or Star side and even more commonly a ghost of the star on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s PIDT.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you ever see a high mint State coin with everything sharp and then this ghostly star, it&#039;s quite amazing. One was posted here a couple months back.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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