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cameron12xcameron12x Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭
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What happened around the rim?

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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

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  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The coin looks like it is the result of a strike from a misaligned die (but need to see the reverse alignment to be sure) or from a slightly off-center strike.
    Numismatist Ordinaire
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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    Maybe a small planchet?
    Becky
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you taking about the circle inside the denticles, or the fact that the obverse is slightly off center? What is the question?
    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • cameron12xcameron12x Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Are you taking about the circle inside the denticles, or the fact that the obverse is slightly off center? What is the question?
    TD >>

    I'm curious about both issues...

    What are your thoughts about them?
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    During this era the engraver sunk the head into a die blank and then used a compass to scratch a circle out near the border. This circle was used to properly align the stars and denticles. Sometimes the circle was light and got polished away. Sometimes he got carried away and dug a trench.

    As to the obverse being slightly off-center, we need to see the reverse to tell if it is correspondingly off-center. If so, the coin was struck slightly off-center, but it is no big deal. If the reverse is centered, then the obverse die was slightly misaligned in the press. Again, no big deal.

    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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