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<p>[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 9574932, member: 77814"]looks like Die Deterioration.</p><p>wonder why everyone always asks for the FULL coin ... becz being microscopic makes one look all day long when the answer is the whole thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>remember when a die wears (which starts as soon as it gets used) the edges of the devices (crevices of the letters, etc) start to wear / chip / break off microscopically. This widens them based on the metal flow of the planchet. That's why you'll see shallow looking though wide upper parts of letters which are near the rim like the "C" and "A".</p><p>but it happens all around it, which is why looking at the entire coin is a much better clue than a small portion of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 9574932, member: 77814"]looks like Die Deterioration. wonder why everyone always asks for the FULL coin ... becz being microscopic makes one look all day long when the answer is the whole thing. remember when a die wears (which starts as soon as it gets used) the edges of the devices (crevices of the letters, etc) start to wear / chip / break off microscopically. This widens them based on the metal flow of the planchet. That's why you'll see shallow looking though wide upper parts of letters which are near the rim like the "C" and "A". but it happens all around it, which is why looking at the entire coin is a much better clue than a small portion of it.[/QUOTE]
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