Would you consider this piece as off center
Bustquarterhound
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.would you say this piece is off centered, misaligned or neither?
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Are off-center coins struck within the collar or outside of the collar?
Is that coin struck within the collar or outside of the collar?
I don't think the mint used collars before 1828
neither die appears to be centered on the blank. but, like the sac, it's no big deal
It is not off centered.
I would not consider that off-center.
That said it is not perfectly centered, but to call it "off-center", I would expect further distancing.
Thinking about it, I've always considered that for earlier federal like quarters and halves, maybe at least about 60° of the dentils are missing due to strike miss alignment. Maybe @jacrispies and @habaraca can opine
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Todd...... No I would not.....
Once had a converstion with Larry Briggs concerning off center Bust Halves.
JT Stanton (Cherry Pickers Guide) happened to join in, and the general consensus was for a coin to be off center it had to have missing devices..
the above coins has partial dentiles but not missing completely so NOT off center......
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0% off center. There was a small tolerance for centering as the collar used for the bust quarter series was much wider than the planchet diameter.
Capped bust and earlier, half dimes, dimes, and quarters had a wide closed collar which imparted the edge reeding.
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