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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Delmer, post: 209506, member: 8219&quot;]It&#039;s interesting to go through the technical challenges that the mint faces when creating something that will produce quicky, accurately, and with no breakdowns. Die longevity is one challenge.. </p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Liberty extra curl&quot; as I&#039;ve seen it called, is a lump between 2 of her curls.&nbsp; If you envision the NEGATIVE image of the coin, (the die) you see that the place where the &quot;extra curl&quot; shows up is where there would normally be one of the sharpest peaks, rising the highest off the die (penetrating deepest into the slug).&nbsp; If you could see the thickness of the metal JUST BELOW that high peak. you could imagine that the design on the obverse isn&#039;t TOTALLY up to the artist (I bet that pains the artist too) because the location on the REVERSE of the deepest dig, shouldn&#039;t risk a fracture by design.. that is, the design on the OBVERSE better not have deep troths in OR WORSE, SLIGHTLY ASKEW of the same location.&nbsp; (um, someone like me would ASSUME the mint takes these things into consideration if there is indeed a greater risk of failure)</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, having just today identified yet another anomoly on the GW dollar coin, it struck me (no pun intended) that the issue I found (not calling it an error or anything else on purpouse) location is *just about* exactly opposite of the liberty extra curl... and that in thinking a little further, I can imagine the sequence of events at the press.. with all the executives called to the engineering office...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Ok boys, the engineers have discovered that the reason that these little chips are flying off the obverse die in Liberty&#039;s hair is that the 2 deepest penetrating spots on each die are exactly lined up with each other..&nbsp; to test this, we are going to modify a obverse die so that the valley isn&#039;t so deep, and the 2 dies will be farther apart upon strike.. and less angular force will be exherted on the hair region due to the increased amount of soft metal buffer... errr.. or something..&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This idea, fortunately, a test laid out by an engineer, is the only one attempted because the other ideas...</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;- rotate one die 20 degrees</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;- don&#039;t press them so hard</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;- offset one die from the other</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;- make the slugs thinner to start</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; were all submitted by the manager&#039;s secretaries on their behalf earlier, and were rejected.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So the plan was to grind off the obverse die in the area opposite of Liberty&#039;s hair... Washington&#039;s COLLAR detail.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This text of course is purely for fun..albeit a bit plausible.. but now that I&#039;ve got your attention and you&#039;ve had a laugh.. check out the buff-job someone did on the obverse die that struck this coin.. this is what the coin would look like on the obverse, if the above scenario played out.. a grind RIGHT AT THAT LOCATION. (eyeballed it.. HEY, someone drill a hole at the liberty-extra-curl location and see haha)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;(PS, I have 5 of these)...</p><p><br /></p><p>note one picture is of a NORMAL coin for comparison... and I show another picture of a scrape that appears on each coin near washington&#039;s left (your right) side of hairpiece.&nbsp; Just looks like someone touched the die on a grinder.. only the HIGH SPOTS are removed.. IMPOSSIBLE to counterfeit on a coin as you&#039;d have to fill the valley and make scrape marks in it withOUT scraping the high points of washington&#039;s jacket.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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