HELP!! Theories on the Cause of This??

RKKay · September 17, 2004 7:32AM

Thanks.

DesertRat · September 17, 2004 7:40AM

difficult from the pics but it looks like a grainy cut or ding on the rim. Going by just the first pic I'd say mechanical damage. The second pic looks different like possibly a small die clip. Really hard to thell though.

RKKay · September 17, 2004 7:46AM

It's hard to get good pix. It's in a PCGS slab (graded PR 65).

mgoodm3 · September 17, 2004 7:48AM

Wouldn't that be the wrong shape for a clip? curve points inward. Planchet defect. Belt sander wound?

DesertRat · September 17, 2004 7:48AM

Those little raised bumps of metal on each side of the damaged area are interesting.

airplanenut · September 17, 2004 7:54AM

Looks like it could be an extremely minor clip. Can you get a large picture of the rim opposite that mark?

shylock · September 17, 2004 7:54AM

Pattern pimples?

They look like tiny cuds, strange to see from a pattern die.

MrEureka · September 17, 2004 7:55AM

Looks like a planchet defect. There was insufficient metal to fill the die. BTW, is that a Standard Silver dime? Is it aluminum?

ldhair · September 17, 2004 7:57AM

And maybe an image of the whole coin.

jonathanb · September 17, 2004 8:03AM

There could be other reasons, but that's just what a rim clip should look like. How about the opposite side of the coin, at the exact same spot? If there's a corresponding weakness there, it's a rim clip.

If that's what it is, I suppose the next question is "Premium?" For that, I dunno. Sorry.

jonathan

BigE · September 17, 2004 8:07AM

An assayers mark

-----------------BigE

RKKay · September 17, 2004 10:48AM

<< <i>BTW, is that a Standard Silver dime? Is it aluminum? >>

Yes. Yes. Why do you ask?

HELP!! Theories on the Cause of This??

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