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<p>[QUOTE="Howard Black, post: 3458258, member: 97119"]You are not describing my coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have four scraped-out regions. Some of them are where there is no text. Some of them are <i>under</i> cleanly struck text which is punched <i>onto</i> the scrape. (They are thinly scraped at the side of the scooped-out part, the scraping being a gradual process, starting as faint scratching, culminating in a deep gouge, and then an area where scooped-out metal piles up.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The cutting is deepest over the copper layer (which is softer), but, extend toward each side, beyond the text area in the center of the rim. The photos do not do justice to the evidence, and when I attempt to detail the problem with the written word I am damned for being too wordy.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, this is my final comment on the matter, unless I hear something definitive from a TPG. I know at least one TPG does handle minting mishaps, but I can't remember which TPG it is. (I saw a photo of a slabbed dime from last years reverse silver proof set -- it had finning, and this was on the label (using some other nomenclature), but it was clearly finning.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Howard Black, post: 3458258, member: 97119"]You are not describing my coin. I have four scraped-out regions. Some of them are where there is no text. Some of them are [I]under[/I] cleanly struck text which is punched [I]onto[/I] the scrape. (They are thinly scraped at the side of the scooped-out part, the scraping being a gradual process, starting as faint scratching, culminating in a deep gouge, and then an area where scooped-out metal piles up.) The cutting is deepest over the copper layer (which is softer), but, extend toward each side, beyond the text area in the center of the rim. The photos do not do justice to the evidence, and when I attempt to detail the problem with the written word I am damned for being too wordy. So, this is my final comment on the matter, unless I hear something definitive from a TPG. I know at least one TPG does handle minting mishaps, but I can't remember which TPG it is. (I saw a photo of a slabbed dime from last years reverse silver proof set -- it had finning, and this was on the label (using some other nomenclature), but it was clearly finning.)[/QUOTE]
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