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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1688782, member: 42773&quot;]The beak is closed and the end of the ribbon is hanging out of the left side. What do mean by &quot;split&quot;?</p><p><br /></p><p>You may have seen coins in which there isn&#039;t much of a distinction between the lower and upper parts of the beak due to weak strikes. When the mint started using copper-nickel clad planchets, you got a lot of weak strikes in the 70s, particularly from the Philly mint. But the design itself didn&#039;t change, to my knowledge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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