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Any error experts see a Capped Bust Half Dime like this?

Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
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@ErrorsOnCoins and other members - any suggestions? The entire coin looks like this. This is an image of the field at 30X. The coin grades Fine-12.

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  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If it wasn't you posting it....I would have asked if it was some kind of lacquer that's cracking....

    But since you have been pretty quick to identify that in the past.....I'll sit and watch. ;)

    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,866 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A photo of the entire coin, both sides,
    would be helpful, but I'm certain that
    it's PMD. Surface damage from a liquid,
    or burial.

    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks Fred and Tommy, dried liquid substance that has cracked.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,344 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sure looks like cracked lacquer to me!

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,356 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like dried and cracked lacquer, but also that the coin circulated after the lacquer was applied.

    I would try an acetone bath on this one.

    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.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have seen that on lacquered coins.... but they were copper....Cheers, RickO

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