Consolation prize for being skunked on Heritage
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I lost every single coin I bid on in the Heritage World Coin Auction. Hmph. Most of them, I was the underbidder.
Instead of overbidding on those coins, I consoled myself last night on TeleTrade.
The stuff on the reverse appears to be on the slab, not the coin.
I guess if i'm gonna get some sort of swiss shooting thaler, it has to be gold.
It's also the last year of swiss gold that I dare purchase because of fear of the Nazi thing. But that is another thread there.
Oh, and while I was at it, I figured I might as well snatch up that digitized baby coin with the metal fingerprint on the back.
Instead of overbidding on those coins, I consoled myself last night on TeleTrade.
The stuff on the reverse appears to be on the slab, not the coin.
I guess if i'm gonna get some sort of swiss shooting thaler, it has to be gold.
It's also the last year of swiss gold that I dare purchase because of fear of the Nazi thing. But that is another thread there.
Oh, and while I was at it, I figured I might as well snatch up that digitized baby coin with the metal fingerprint on the back.
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Cathy
Under a magnifying glass, one can see that the 'baby' coin is done with patterns of different die polish. The 'die polish' lines are horizonal, with more consistent, raised vertical devices. forming the grid.
<< <i>I cannot understand why Teletrade always has slabbed coins imaged upside down instead of imaging them so the reverses can be viewed in the correct orientation. Pure laziness or what? >>
My guess would be neurotic adherence to the slab. "Ja! Zees iz zee top ov zee slab, zerefore it eez zee top of zee koin. Genau!"
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As you can see, the raised devices are a series of vertical bars. They are pyrimidal in their cross-section, pointed at the top.
Notice that there is a 'hit' on this coin and you can see how it has affected the vertical bars and how the recessed regions are well protected.
Being pointed at the top, these vertical bars are susceptible to damage and thus good and preserving and showing any sort of wear that may have happened.
The image itself is created by a series of horizontal 'die polish marks'. More like laser pits. The pits are not only on in the recesses, but also appear on the sides of the vertical bars.
The intensity of the image corresponds to the height of these horizontal bars. There are places in the image where the bars disappear entirely; you can see some of those locations in this photo.
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Not that they are not actually circles, but comprised of small straight line segments. This is obvious in the center 'circle' which is more like an octagon. But you can also see that the next circle also consists of straight line segments.
The width of these devices is determined by the image that they want to portray. It is difficult to hold this coin at the correct angle to see the intended image.
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<< <i>The width of these devices is determined by the image that they want to portray. It is difficult to hold this coin at the correct angle to see the intended image. >>
Though you state the difficulty, could you tell us what the intended image is on the "thumbprint" side?
By the way, is it really supposed to represent a thumbprint? Unless that is documented to be the case, I would say no, since concentric circles would be one of the least effective means of portraying a symbolic thumbprint, and the chance of someone actually having a thumbprint even remotely similar to concentric circles is, in my opinion, zero.