Unusual 1799 dollar: Help

DoctorPaper

I obtained this high grade bust dollar from a local dealer for a bargain price about 15 years ago because of the obvious damage in front of the face of the effigy. It looks like someone tried to buff out either a counterstamp or some kind of engraving in that area.

What's unsual about this dollar is that you can see a second "99" at the rim between the date and stars on the left when you hold the coin a the proper angle. It didn't show up in my picture of the whole obverse, but you can see it in the closeup. Also, there's some kind of extra metal at the top of Liberty's head and a bunch of the dentils are doubled on the obverse. The reverse seems totally unaffected.

My question is-what caused this? Overstruck planchet? Planchet shifting in the holder and being hit again, or something else? Why isn't the reverse apparently affected. Does this coin have any extra value beyound being a damaged bust coin?

Sorry about the quality of the photo's. I really admire many of the pictures I'm seeing here. I need to upgrade my capacity. Thanks...

DoctorPaper

Sorry for the repeat post; computer glitch....

tsacch

what photo?

Gonfunko

Great quality pics! At least they aren't red X's.

zzzz

Something else ....

Don't appologize for the quality of your pictures ... They are fine .. Thanks for sharing ..

Betta285

I think i can correctly attribute that as the invisible variety!

orie

I tried to hook up a pic on here with no success. Caught so much ridicule I'm not trying again until I get some advice. No problem doing it on ebay, but here it's a different deal.

Why doesn't someone give us the short version on how to do it?