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<p>[QUOTE="toddestan, post: 171744, member: 6366"]Okay, I got some images of the "O" in GOD. First one is a brightfield image (light coming straight down on the coin), and the second is a dark field image (light coming in at an angle from all directions). </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/1820/obright2compvu6.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/1820/obright2compvu6.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/1820/obright2compvu6.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8043/0darkfieldcompmr1.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8043/0darkfieldcompmr1.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8043/0darkfieldcompmr1.jpg</a></p><p> </p><p>I also weighed the coin, and it weighs 26.69g, so that seems to be correct.</p><p> </p><p>I've worked with sheetrock enough to understand the analogy - it does look a bit like that, though if this is what happened I'm going to guess that it must have happened to the planchet before striking? Anyhow, heres' a closeup of the headpiece between the E and R and Liberty.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/6642/headpiecebrightcompia7.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/6642/headpiecebrightcompia7.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/6642/headpiecebrightcompia7.jpg</a></p><p> </p><p>Under magnification, the filing marks/damage to the rim is quite obvious. I'm not sure what to make of it.</p><p> </p><p>EDIT: Sorry in advance for the large images. Hopefully your web browser can scale them down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="toddestan, post: 171744, member: 6366"]Okay, I got some images of the "O" in GOD. First one is a brightfield image (light coming straight down on the coin), and the second is a dark field image (light coming in at an angle from all directions). [URL="http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/1820/obright2compvu6.jpg"]http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/1820/obright2compvu6.jpg[/URL] [URL="http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8043/0darkfieldcompmr1.jpg"]http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8043/0darkfieldcompmr1.jpg[/URL] I also weighed the coin, and it weighs 26.69g, so that seems to be correct. I've worked with sheetrock enough to understand the analogy - it does look a bit like that, though if this is what happened I'm going to guess that it must have happened to the planchet before striking? Anyhow, heres' a closeup of the headpiece between the E and R and Liberty. [URL="http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/6642/headpiecebrightcompia7.jpg"]http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/6642/headpiecebrightcompia7.jpg[/URL] Under magnification, the filing marks/damage to the rim is quite obvious. I'm not sure what to make of it. EDIT: Sorry in advance for the large images. Hopefully your web browser can scale them down.[/QUOTE]
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