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25th Set DDO 1-O-VI Die study (Lots of PICS)
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Under examination, every example seemed to be constant across the board...
Perhaps this thread will help us understand doubled dies, how they are created and what happened in this dies case.
It appears that the die could have Pivoted, popped into place, what have you, much evidence of die movement or something occurring here, then perhaps the Class 6 and 2 doubling occurred during the hubbing. Edit:Machine Doubling or evidence of a pivot ?
Whatever it be I am not here to determine what it is, I am just documenting and informing with numerous shots of gouges in the die with every example I have examined.
Could this die have been retired early? Perhaps this DDO is much rarer than anticipated.
There seems to be a growing progression of die damage (chips, gouge in the lower) which could have been a cause of debris building up in initial gouges or just the die deteriorating from what ever happened early in the dies life. Whatever it is the later stages of this anomaly seem to affect grade, later across the board.
Most MS69 examples have the characteristic of a huge pothole like crater in the lower footing area in the later die stage( or progression of some damage) perhaps more caught by the eye and dinged to 69 status by Third party grading
We can speculate was eventually caught by the mint workers and pulled since this was supposed to be limited production run and Special Anniversary set , meaning extra care and more perfect strikes were less strikes per die probably occurred than normal strike silver eagles.
And even later in the die life
Perhaps this thread will help us understand doubled dies, how they are created and what happened in this dies case.
It appears that the die could have Pivoted, popped into place, what have you, much evidence of die movement or something occurring here, then perhaps the Class 6 and 2 doubling occurred during the hubbing. Edit:Machine Doubling or evidence of a pivot ?
Whatever it be I am not here to determine what it is, I am just documenting and informing with numerous shots of gouges in the die with every example I have examined.
Could this die have been retired early? Perhaps this DDO is much rarer than anticipated.
There seems to be a growing progression of die damage (chips, gouge in the lower) which could have been a cause of debris building up in initial gouges or just the die deteriorating from what ever happened early in the dies life. Whatever it is the later stages of this anomaly seem to affect grade, later across the board.
Most MS69 examples have the characteristic of a huge pothole like crater in the lower footing area in the later die stage( or progression of some damage) perhaps more caught by the eye and dinged to 69 status by Third party grading
We can speculate was eventually caught by the mint workers and pulled since this was supposed to be limited production run and Special Anniversary set , meaning extra care and more perfect strikes were less strikes per die probably occurred than normal strike silver eagles.
And even later in the die life
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I might see some thickness to the date when I squint.
i don't know where those images are hosted but they are loading super slow. never have images load that slow on my broadband
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