Stay At Home Friday Quiz#1 for future graders and authenticators
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Test your eye for detail and describe what you see in the micrograph of a Morgan dollar I just graded. I'll be posting a hint later tonight.
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Lady liberty has a bat in the cave
Now that's a REALLY GOOD eye for detail but not the correct answer.
There appears to be a milky haze in the field. Has it been puttied?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Agreed with PerryHall, on the haze.
Could this be glue residue from scotch tape? I notice a piece of residue on the upper part of the nose.
Below the hair, at the junction of the face and field as @PerryHall said putty residue?
The haze seems to have some streakiness to it, maybe a light whizzing?
Is this a variety of Delamination? Keying on your use of micrograph, it is pigmentation of one of the alloys, resulting in area of flaking?
So what TPGS are you pros with? Nailed it.
First the haze draws your eye into the area. As soon as you see the "halo" like ring around the star you can figure something wiped across the surface but did not get into the area where the field meets the relief. Then the kicker. The yellowish lump of residue at one end of the haze that butts up to the relief. Unc DETAILS, Altered Surface.
So do you think it's putty? nose grease?
It looks like a scratch on the plastic looking at the pic from my end. Now I see what your showing.
That's not putty, it's mustard residue.
Is the haze lying on the surface or scratched into it? Can the coin be saved if a solvent could remove whatever substance was applied, or is the metal itself damaged?
The haze from putty or what ever substance was used on the coin is usually just on the surface and can be removed, however when the substance is removed it usually uncovers a problem that was being intentionally hidden.
I was thinking chunk of plastic from crack-out until loupe closeup
Yes and yes.
Putty is used to hide hairlines. Usually acetone will remove it. As others pointed out removing the putty may reveal hairlines and other defects.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Late to the game, but that 'stuff' in front of the forehead caught my attention right away...that and the ding below the letter L...Cheers, RickO
LOL, STOP "micro" grading!
You are all wrong.
There is a large arrow pointing down and ending at the tip of Lady Liberty's nose.
The arrow tip ends at the nose. Doesn't touch the nose. The shaft runs all the way up to the RH side of the dot between "E" & "P". It is perfectly shaped.
