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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3239678, member: 77413&quot;]<b>1971</b></p><p>I&#039;m not sure I&#039;m happy about the flaw on the jaw, but I like the reverse detail and full steps.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]847772[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]847773[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is detail of the jaw. The criss-crossed lines (labeled Pre-strike) appear pushed together and indicate dents in the planchet that were not obliterated during striking. The higher mark (labeled Post?) that runs at 45 degrees looks like it had been hit from the bottom left and created a ridge of metal at the top right.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]847776[/ATTACH]</p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">This one is tougher and I am no expert here. Generally one would expect that any high point on the planchet would have to yield to contact with the die and would be smoothed out. So based on that, I would say this is post-strike.</span></font></span></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">On the other hand, a post-strike ding from another coin should leave a clean-edged mark as well as the pushed up displaced metal. Since this mark is not knife-edged, and the displaced metal is kind of squashed, I would hazard a guess that it was pre-strike, too.</span></font></span></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></span></font></span></p><p><font face="Verdana">I envision another planchet hitting it at an angle and peeling up some metal, which was then hammered by the die. The nickel is too hard, and the dent was just too big, to completely efface the mark.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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