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<p>[QUOTE="davidh, post: 510385, member: 15062"]I just took another look at the magnified picture of the obverse and noticed something odd. What's not really unusual is that the die for the obverse shows that it was polished quite a bit. Parts of the lettering are worn away - the left upright in the second A in AMERICA. The bottom of the S in CENTS. Also the S, A and S in STATES. What really caught my eye was the letters of UNITED. It looks like the letters ITED were probably polished nearly to the point of oblivion, but then the vertical bar portion of each letter was either re-cut or over stamped with what looks like a letter I. This is strongly evident in the T and E, maybe not so evident on the I and D. The Cherrypicker's Book might be interested in this.</p><p><img src="http://cointrends.org/nic_rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="davidh, post: 510385, member: 15062"]I just took another look at the magnified picture of the obverse and noticed something odd. What's not really unusual is that the die for the obverse shows that it was polished quite a bit. Parts of the lettering are worn away - the left upright in the second A in AMERICA. The bottom of the S in CENTS. Also the S, A and S in STATES. What really caught my eye was the letters of UNITED. It looks like the letters ITED were probably polished nearly to the point of oblivion, but then the vertical bar portion of each letter was either re-cut or over stamped with what looks like a letter I. This is strongly evident in the T and E, maybe not so evident on the I and D. The Cherrypicker's Book might be interested in this. [IMG]http://cointrends.org/nic_rev.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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