@IkesT said:
No. It was worrying when you mistook scratches on the coin for die cracks; it is even more worrying that you are apparently seeing something that isn't there.
Ugh... Rude. I won't let ignorance dishearten me.
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I thought the same way as you when I was first starting too. You might have to download and zoom in on the pictures below.
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I'll admit if I'm proven wrong, what about you?
You're telling me these aren't the same die? I mean common. Really? Forget the whole conversation and just look at these photos. Look at what I circled, closely. Those are die cracks that keep going. It's not ripples in the steel that Ike thinks.
Just because he has 4000 posts and I have 100 doesn't mean he's right.
@Maxvan1 said:
Damn it. I told myself I wasn't going to do this...
Then this shows how it falls out of vertical alignment pretty well, actually. At least according to my theory. You can see less of Washington's head is filled. Same with the Y.
The strike is clearly different judging by rim width and location. *edit: Look at the rim, bigger on one side, small on the other. The alignment alternates sides in the animation.
It's not a crazy theory. I'm insulted. All I got for real now.
For anyone still pulling for me, here is a snippet from "The Washington Quarter Reverse: A Die-Variety Bonanza" by Herbert P. Hicks, published in the February 1986 edition of Numismatist:
"Some of the 1956 circulation strikes of the high-relief type have missing detail, perhaps most noticeable in the eagle's tail and the leaf in the angle of the two stems above T of QUARTER. I find myself wondering if one of the hubbing steps was skipped. It would appear that only this somewhat defective die or one other die was used for the 'proof artwork' circulation strikes. These 1956 business-strike Variety H pieces are the scarcest in the silver series." (Emphasis added).
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You're telling me these aren't the same die? I mean common. Really? Forget the whole conversation and just look at these photos. Look at what I circled, closely. Those are die cracks that keep going. It's not ripples in the steel that Ike thinks.
Just because he has 4000 posts and I have 100 doesn't mean he's right.
Then this shows how it falls out of vertical alignment pretty well, actually. At least according to my theory. You can see less of Washington's head is filled. Same with the Y.
The strike is clearly different judging by rim width and location. *edit: Look at the rim, bigger on one side, small on the other. The alignment alternates sides in the animation.
It's not a crazy theory. I'm insulted. All I got for real now.
For anyone still pulling for me, here is a snippet from "The Washington Quarter Reverse: A Die-Variety Bonanza" by Herbert P. Hicks, published in the February 1986 edition of Numismatist:
"Some of the 1956 circulation strikes of the high-relief type have missing detail, perhaps most noticeable in the eagle's tail and the leaf in the angle of the two stems above T of QUARTER. I find myself wondering if one of the hubbing steps was skipped. It would appear that only this somewhat defective die or one other die was used for the 'proof artwork' circulation strikes. These 1956 business-strike Variety H pieces are the scarcest in the silver series." (Emphasis added).