That's a fairly hard one to find. Good eyes! There's only 1 working die that produced these and, by this time, reverse dies averaged 60-80,000 coins. The jury is out on how it happened but, when you look at a higher grade coin, the lower left of the bottom loop is not quite right. I think that a chip came off that section of hub (the hub strikes/makes the working dies and is like a typewriter key for each detail). When the first few coins were struck, the bottom left of the 8 din't show up so a guy grabbed a punch (a bead punch) and tried to indent the working die enouh to make a complete digit. The other field of thought is that there was a die chip, rust pit, or start of a D/C there and it was corrected with the bead punch. Either way. I think that it's undervalued, variety-wise, when you think about how many are out there and how easily this is seen with bare eyeballs.
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There's only 1 working die that produced these and, by this time, reverse dies averaged 60-80,000 coins.
The jury is out on how it happened but, when you look at a higher grade coin, the lower left of the bottom loop is not quite right. I think that a chip came off that section of hub (the hub strikes/makes the working dies and is like a typewriter key for each detail). When the first few coins were struck, the bottom left of the 8 din't show up so a guy grabbed a punch (a bead punch) and tried to indent the working die enouh to make a complete digit. The other field of thought is that there was a die chip, rust pit, or start of a D/C there and it was corrected with the bead punch. Either way. I think that it's undervalued, variety-wise, when you think about how many are out there and how easily this is seen with bare eyeballs.
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