Has anybody ever seen a 1964-D Dime where part of the F is polished away like a 3 leg buffalo?
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Wouldn’t this be considered major enough to be a variety? Just look at the pics... you can’t miss it. Pretty cool how it makes it into a whole different style F with that curve.
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Not seeing too much that I would consider, "major"
It's amazing what we can find on coins when we examine them closely. I'll bet the problem is that not too many posters here are looking at 1964-D dimes. BTW, nice images.
Why not see if you can find four more examples as I read that a coin needs to have 5 known before it is considered a possible variety for the Registry Sets.
I look at all 64-D's I come across looking for RPM's.
Listen to insider2. If you look hard enough, with enough magnification....you can see anything you want to. Good, bad, or weird.
2 feathers
3&3.5 leggers
All are made polishing the die down until the indention (for a feather or leg) is polished down to the level of the field
For part of that F to be polished away in the same way as above the F would lose height and it'd come off where the F meets the field.
That has some aberration deep inside the feature (the hole that makes the F).
I won't say what caused it. I will say it's not the same type of die polishing that causes a 2 feather or 3 legger.
Perhaps there is a hub issue?? ??
I do note there are plenty of die polish lines surrounding the letters. These come from the same type of polishing that creates the 2f & 3l.
Is this an rpm Dimeman? Thank you all. Very good to know that PCGS needs 5 examples before it calls it a variety.
Hey guys. Btw. The coin with the heavily polished F is also missing the dot in e pluribus unum. Here’s pics of the reverse.
That's one! One still qualifies as" NOT TOO MANY." I'll bet we can find 30 or 40 more posters to chime in here out of a 1000 + (?) members including me. That's still NOT TOO MANY by my reckoning.
I doubt that anyone cares about a polished "F", especially when the "F" is mostly intact. Find one with a completely missing "F" and we'll talk. [Even then, many people wouldn't care.]
I will say that there are some CRAZY die polishing lines on that dime! Mildly interesting, but no one is going to pay a significant premium. [In my ever humble opinion.]
Lots of die polish lines in the fields. However, it looks like what you are highlighting might be the result of a partially clogged die or some sort of debris. It also appears there might have been a wire struck-thru in the upright of the F. That doesn't appear to be a hit. I enjoy abraded die coins like the No FG or the no AW. This doesn't look like the result of overzealous polishing of the die.
and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
And some of it is valuable...LOL.
Debris in the bottom of a device die will create that ragged edge effect of the anomaly, not from polishing. And as far as the 'dot' goes, if you blow up the image there is, although faint, still a vestige of a period dot remaining,
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I would say it is, Dimeman could tell us the RPM number.
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Excellent pictures, however nothing of numismatic note or value. That is an RPM on the second dime you showed... Cheers, RickO
A simple mid-life die rework can sometimes cause some strange things.
Pete
Looks more like MD.
The missing dot in UNUM rears its head yet again.
The dot is there.....just weak.
Curious on what year that is...
I believe that this is a case of Machine Doubling.