Which one would you choose?

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• amwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 31, 2018 8:20PM

  So it is well know many of the coins in the Smithsonian have been cleaned by terrible curators . How many times do ya'll think this one was?

  @Dave99B said:
  Easy: Top one. Very original. Second one has likely been 'monkeyed with'.

  Cool coins!

  Dave

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 31, 2018 11:52PM

  @yosclimber said:
  
  Tom is the smartest one in the bunch again - I missed the reverse rotation, too. Above are the 2 in sync.

  I assume the photographers were not consistent in how they shot the reverses,
  and that Humbert did not rotate the die.

  Considering that the dies were “lapped or polished between strikings”, it seems more likely that the dies were rotated.

  Andy Lustig
  
  Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
  
  Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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• MrEureka Posts: 24,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 1, 2019 7:59AM

  @amwldcoin said:
  So it is well know many of the coins in the Smithsonian have been cleaned by terrible curators . How many times do ya'll think this one was?

  Many coins in many museums have been badly cleaned, but the vast majority at the Smithsonian have not been cleaned at all. As for the slug, It looks uncleaned in the photo and it grades 65 or so. Safe to say it has not been cleaned.

  Andy Lustig
  
  Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
  
  Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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