I would like to ask everyone, what images, micrographs or anything else you think would be helpful in presenting my case as to the origins of this coin. I am prepared to accept that I've done a poor job of presenting this but I have confidence that if I can take more images and present more evidence you will all come back around. So what am I missing other than raw planchet micrographs, what information would help in this presentation? If your answer is nothing, well that's fine, but there's no need to say that, just try to help me make this more complete. Does anyone have mint research sites that you use, the mint has been a bit of a barrier, I've really only read correspondence and annual reports witch were helpful and had interesting information but I was hoping for die records, coin destruction records and even FOIA requests didn't lead anywhere, although I may have worded them poorly. Any help is appreciated, I'm just trying to avoid picking up one more piece of the puzzle and then being asked for three more. Thanks.
@jrm said:
Oldhoopster if I get a dime planchet, take images and they match the surface that I've called unstruck would that be enough for you to agree that the coin left the mint as we see it here? I just don't want to hunt down a planchet, get great matching images and then have you guys ask for something else. Getting these scans is not a simple task that I can just do whenever I want. So, would that be enough?
How about you try this approach to your "study." Forget the damaged circulated dime for now. I'll send you a pristine, blank cent planchet you can keep. Then you can image it AT VARIOUS MAGNIFICATIONS from the lowest the SEM goes on up. For example:
lowest.
40X
90X
120X
170X
I think that should prove to you that there is NOTHING ORIGINAL on the surface of that **"parking lot" amaged, circulated dime of yours.
Then you can take an image of the surface of an original BU Red cent at say 50X and 100X. You'll be carrying out an experiment done decades ago and probably many more times since. Wink, Wink.
PS If you post a mailing address, I'll bet members will send you all sorts of stuff you can image and KEEP! I will for sure.
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Smudge, I would like to compile enough evidence first so that there is no question left unanswered, then I will do just that.
Well, you got a job ahead of you.
I would like to ask everyone, what images, micrographs or anything else you think would be helpful in presenting my case as to the origins of this coin. I am prepared to accept that I've done a poor job of presenting this but I have confidence that if I can take more images and present more evidence you will all come back around. So what am I missing other than raw planchet micrographs, what information would help in this presentation? If your answer is nothing, well that's fine, but there's no need to say that, just try to help me make this more complete. Does anyone have mint research sites that you use, the mint has been a bit of a barrier, I've really only read correspondence and annual reports witch were helpful and had interesting information but I was hoping for die records, coin destruction records and even FOIA requests didn't lead anywhere, although I may have worded them poorly. Any help is appreciated, I'm just trying to avoid picking up one more piece of the puzzle and then being asked for three more. Thanks.
This is a waste of technology.
Given the heavy wear on the coin, how do we know that everything isn't just a circulation artifact?
How about you try this approach to your "study." Forget the damaged circulated dime for now. I'll send you a pristine, blank cent planchet you can keep. Then you can image it AT VARIOUS MAGNIFICATIONS from the lowest the SEM goes on up. For example:
lowest.
40X
90X
120X
170X
I think that should prove to you that there is NOTHING ORIGINAL on the surface of that **"parking lot" amaged, circulated dime of yours.
Then you can take an image of the surface of an original BU Red cent at say 50X and 100X. You'll be carrying out an experiment done decades ago and probably many more times since. Wink, Wink.
PS If you post a mailing address, I'll bet members will send you all sorts of stuff you can image and KEEP! I will for sure.
Great idea. If a research project is started with corrupt assumptions, everything about it will be corrupted.