Wisconsin extra leaf value

Rick Stachowski · Jun 2, 2015

Speaking of Wisconsin just found this today, DDO & DDR

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joecoincollect · Jun 3, 2015

Jacnum7 said: ↑

In the August 2007 issue of The Numismatist, the official publication of the American Numismatic Association, collector Chris Pilliod, who is a metallurgist by profession, published the results of a scientific investigation into the cause of the extra leaves. The evidence he gathered, much of it through scanning electron microscopy, led him to conclude the "error" was done intentionally. The window of opportunity was the time between die hubbing and final heat treat, when the die metal is soft enough that someone can alter the design with a punch tool and hammer. High magnification revealed metal flow evidence consistent with theory, while eliminating other possible causes. We are still left to wonder why someone would do such a thing.
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Why would someone do it? For the same reason the 1913 nickel was made etc. People want to create a variety, pocket them, and the rest is history. I'm surprised more of this stuff wasn't done in the past

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