I bought a wonderful example of a center struck coin today.

DenverCoin

On the reverse, you can see the high point precisely in the middle of the coin where the metal flowed like an ocean wave as it was struck. It made me wonder how much pressure it had to be under, and how hot it got. This coin is a gem quality, work of art, and I'm lucky to have found it. To me, a center struck coin with a million fingerprints and dripping with tone is nicer then a poorly struck coin with none. Of course this coin has no fingerprints, is nearly flawless and is nearly perfectly struck. Does anyone else care to share his or her opinion about the importance of the strike on a coin?


Now back to your regularly scheduled programs.


John

Cam40

I found a clashed die 2000 D Jeff recently.
I noticed the Monticello had what looked like flames shooting out from the right side of the roof.
Turned out to be Jeffs ponytail poking through on the reverse.
I then could make out the faint outline of the obverse profile showing through on the reverse.
And I noticed a sunken line in the obverse where that part of the planchet sorta caved in
pushing the ponytail through to the otherside.
The whole outline of Jeffs profile I speak of is very faint but the flameing rooftop (reverse ponytail image)
really shows up nicely.