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thecoinlook
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Doing a little research... this 1809 O-112 is giving me an issue regarding what appears to be a die crack at S1 heading to the rim.
I cannot find this crack on any other Obverse-7's, (112, 113, 114, 115).
There also appears to be remnants of an "extra point" heading toward K5, unevenness at the base of (1)809, what appears to be a die scratch inside of 18(0)9, and more "bumps" on various stars...
Any help? Is it just an LDS of the 112 that nobody cares about?
Thanks!
Jordan
I cannot find this crack on any other Obverse-7's, (112, 113, 114, 115).
There also appears to be remnants of an "extra point" heading toward K5, unevenness at the base of (1)809, what appears to be a die scratch inside of 18(0)9, and more "bumps" on various stars...
Any help? Is it just an LDS of the 112 that nobody cares about?
Thanks!
Jordan
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k1 really doesn't look like a crack to me
k5 does
but closer inspection is needed imo to be 100% on both unless other examples exhibit these
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On Star-1, there appears to be a crack at ~8:00 heading toward the rim, and remnants of a repunched point heading toward 5:00.
Also on Star-5, there is something weird going on at the upper two points.
i understand completely. i viewed the obv on a pretty large screen so much so that the stars are the size of my palms and i could go bigger if the resolution was a bit better. probably tilted in slab.
if the line @ 8 in the field by k1 is a crack, it is nominal unless it develops and if it is a crack at all
the line @ k5 resembles a crack but the resolution on the image isn't sufficient enough to say definitively imo unless another coin exhibits the same crack, if it is a crack
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I was trying to make notes, but this didn't match up 100% to the book and other examples, so figured I would try to find out what was going on.
let me look again. i may have missed something that you typed.
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ok here are your inquiries
crack @ S1 - either not a crack or too minor
crack @ S5 - possibly a crack and if it is then it would be noteworthy imo
extra point @ K5 - don't see what you are talking about if you mean K5 as in 5 o'clock
uneveness (1) - negligible
scratch in (0) - can't tell but looks like damage
bumps on various stars - don't see what you are talking about
don't let anything I saw slow and/or stop you from whatever research you are doing. if you are learning and having a good time then full speed ahead
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In your opinion, as of now, is this just simply an O-112 without any special notation?
By K5, I do mean 5:00 on S1.
Attached is a close-up of star 1, of the two things I found odd.
Maybe is nothing, but to me, the left circle does appear as a crack (or repunchdd star point), and the right circle appears as a repunched point, similar to what my book shows for the 111a (but cannot find on Heritage... my book is the Parsley 4th Ed 1st Printing)
The listed Overton die states just scratch the surface in some cases, there could definately be more defined progressions, if anyone wanted to promote them.
I don't know who's in charge of assigning additional a's b's and c's to O#'s, how that process works, but I'm sure it's pretty B-O-R-I-N-G !
edit to add...AU58 ? almost $10,000 ? Dude....!