Opinions on the Morgan error please...
Outhaul
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Been laid up for a couple of weeks due to a hip replacement so I thought it would be a good opportunity to sort through potential eBay stuff.
I came across this Morgan that I purchased quite some time ago and finally took a good look at it. I recall purchasing it as a struck through error. But, now that I've looked at it closely, the devices are too sharp in the affected area to have been struck through some material leading me to believe it's a planchet flaw. Opinions welcome.
Cheers
Bob
I came across this Morgan that I purchased quite some time ago and finally took a good look at it. I recall purchasing it as a struck through error. But, now that I've looked at it closely, the devices are too sharp in the affected area to have been struck through some material leading me to believe it's a planchet flaw. Opinions welcome.
Cheers
Bob
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Whatever, it's cool for sure. Look at all that wear and nobody pulled it...just wow!
bob
Because there is lettering in the area of the error, I'm thinking detached lamination. The metal was there at the time of striking and later separated.
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Because there is lettering in the area of the error, I'm thinking detached lamination. The metal was there at the time of striking and later separated.
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Detached lamination?
Whatever, it's cool for sure. Look at all that wear and nobody pulled it...just wow!
bob
Coinstudy, I assume your comment about a bronze core is in jest...
Cheers, RickO
The mark (indented) through the letters puzzles me....
Coinstudy, I assume your comment about a bronze core is in jest...
Cheers, RickO
When a planchet is struck and metal moves up or down into the obverse or reverse die, there is metal movement deep into the planchet and not just at the very surface. Think about one of those chocolate "coins" where they wrap a disk of chocolate in gold foil and then stamp a design on it. The gold foil conforms to the contour of the die, and so does the chocolate underneath it.
On a planchet where you have a crack in the metal underlaying one area of the surface at a roughly even depth, when you strike that planchet the partially-detached metal will conform itself to the surface of the die, and the metal below the crack will conform towards the die as well. It is blurred because the metal flow is not even, but near the surface will still be legible as on this coin.
TD
I know, Bob. That puzzles me as well. How did this circulate for so long without being pulled?
Could be that most people thought it was post mint damage. And so it sat unloved for a long time. These things must have circulated right up into World War 2, literally too common to be noticed. My Dad brought some back with him, mostly lower grades like this one. They were just a "buck" right up until the mid-$1960's. It would have made sense to spend these in 1932 when they only contained 21 cents worth of silver in them.
It's cool to see the bronze core
where do you see that?
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Outhaul, interesting coin, And, hope you are having an Good Recovery!
Thanks much. I'm driving now and back to work. Doing out-patient PT now.
Cheers
Bob
if a coin were 100% silver there would be no need for a laminate.....right? Check out precious metal alloys