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Strange Place for a mintmark?
moosesr
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This is really a strange looking spot on this Peace dollar?
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Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Good question,how did that get there?
Glued....photoshopped....
Rob
<< <i>if it is a "D" then it's a dropped letter which happens when grease or a foreign substance of some kind fills a design element in the die, falls out and is struck into the planchet that it lands on. >>
It's difficult to believe that any foreign substance that is malleable enough to fill in a design element wouldn't be struck out if/when it falls onto a planchet.
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<< <i>if it is a "D" then it's a dropped letter which happens when grease or a foreign substance of some kind fills a design element in the die, falls out and is struck into the planchet that it lands on. >>
It's difficult to believe that any foreign substance that is malleable enough to fill in a design element wouldn't be struck out if/when it falls onto a planchet. >>
Actually this does happen Stealer. Heat from the striking pressure will harden the foreign material (grease or
whatever). Then it eventually falls out and sometimes just lands on a coin and gets imprinted into wherever
it lands. Not that uncommon, actually.
Hope school is going well.
bob
Dropped letters (or numbers) are not terribly uncommon. The filled letter is usually a mixture of grease and metal and can be pretty resilient.
Lance.
and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor