Struck through Merc

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 8, 2010 5:30AM

  Sorry but it's really hard to tell whats going on based on your images.
  
  It doesn't look like a grease strike through to me from what I can make out

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• astrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 8, 2010 5:45AM

  It looks like the interesting part of the reverse is raised, which would mean something other than a filled die. Is this a known major die break (i.e. cud)?
  
  Lane

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• grip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 8, 2010 5:50AM

  Post damage?

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• Jinx86 Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 8, 2010 7:04AM

  Ive found one source with a large cud, but mostly shown on the obs., they dont include a pic of the rev. But on the Obs of my coin there a is a small area between R and T where this large cud may have started. May just be different die state then one shown.
  
  http://www.stellacoinnews.com/index.php/mercury-dimes-ch-6-1942/

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• astrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 8, 2010 8:25AM

  The more I look at it the more I think it is some sort of post-mint alteration. It just doesn't look like a typical cud. For example. I would expect the "cud" to not have any of the field between "it" and the M in DIME. It would just be too weak to withstand the pressure. It looks somewhat like a twenty-cent piece I have that is "cuddish" but actually is some solder that was over the rim and into the field.
  
  Lane

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• AUandAG Posts: 24,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 8, 2010 8:48AM

  My first inclination is that it is a counterfeit. Note how IN GOD WE TRUST appears to slant
  down and to the right. Not correct in my opinion. But, then that's just my old tired eyes.
  bob

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• fivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 8, 2010 9:02AM

  Looks like glue.

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 8, 2010 9:36AM

  It's not a cud, but some type off
  PMD.
  
  The surfaces off both sides are 'evironmentally damaged'
  (a catch-all phrase), and the 'blob' is probably part of that.
  
  
  If not, it's still something other that what could have occurred
  during striking -

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