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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 512674, member: 112&quot;]David - </p><p><br /></p><p>The doubling effect you mention occurs a lot with Proofs. It is because the coins are struck twice. Look at the picture below - you&#039;ll see the same thing all over the coin. And you can find it on many, many examples. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.ha.com/lf?source=url[file:images/inetpub/NewNames/300/4/1/0/4/4104952.jpg],continueonerror[true]&amp;source=url[file:images/inetpub/webuse/no_image_available.gif],if[('global.source.error')]&amp;sink" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And if you look at that picture, which is much better quality by the way, you can see that there is very, very little attachemnt at the tops and sides of the letters. This was by design, there was not supposed to be much there. And this is a pic of an 1871 Proof to show you what I mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what you are seeing is the result of a defective die. It is not because the letters were re-cut.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a pic of an 1869 Proof - same thing, no defect.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.ha.com/lf?source=url[file:images/inetpub/NewNames/300/7/0/7/707787.jpg],continueonerror[true]&amp;source=url[file:images/inetpub/webuse/no_image_available.gif],if[('global.source.error')]&amp;sink" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>But all 1870 Proofs are the same. If you examine a lot of them you can even see the progression of where the letter breaks got worse and worse. Like with these 2 below - </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.ha.com/lf?source=url[file:images/inetpub/NewNames/300/4/1/0/6/4106866.jpg],continueonerror[true]&amp;source=url[file:images/inetpub/webuse/no_image_available.gif],if[('global.source.error')]&amp;sink" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.ha.com/lf?source=url[file:images/inetpub/NewNames/300/4/3/7/1/4371031.jpg],continueonerror[true]&amp;source=url[file:images/inetpub/webuse/no_image_available.gif],if[('global.source.error')]&amp;sink" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin in the OP&#039;s post was even struck before these 2 coins above and that can be seen, and verified, by the amount remaining in the missing sections of the letters. That die was not re-cut, the pictures prove it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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