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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2624453, member: 77413&quot;]The Philadelphia cent is just starting to tone above Liberty.</p><p><br /></p><p>The San Francisco mint hammered out a coin that managed to fully fill out the O in ONE, in contrast to the &#039;38, &#039;39, and &#039;40 I posted above.</p><p><br /></p><p>For I while I was thinking that the roughness on the weakly struck O&#039;s was from contact with other coins in the mint. Then I realized that if the metal is not pushed fully up into the die, the surface won&#039;t be forced into a smooth texture. That was when I learned that the rough surface marks found on Lincoln&#039;s coat sleeve and on the O are often elements of the strike, and not of contact.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a year grouping with color variations that I really like.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]576279[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]576280[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]576281[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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