New piece - Maine Centennial grade in

cheezhed · March 22, 2011 5:10AM

Currently raw, kind of an oddball design with a combination raised and sunken relief. Comments welcome:

Grade in:

1 1 19611432 9326 1920 50C Maine US MS64

llafoe · March 22, 2011 5:17AM

I don't think it will slab... 92 - Cleaning.

Kove · March 22, 2011 5:23AM

Chances are those lines are die polish marks, rather than cleaning. The Maine half is one of the worst commems for finding heavy HEAVY die polish lines, especially on the reverse.

It's sometimes hard to tell luster and cleaning from a photo, but it looks like a decent Maine to me.

Kove

Staircoins · March 22, 2011 5:23AM

Hard to judge the lustre from the pics.

If that's die polish on the reverse that I see, rather than signs of cleaning, it might holder. I see lots of these struck from heavily polished dies, it seems.

I like it.

cheezhed · March 22, 2011 5:26AM

Yes, the lines are die polish lines.

llafoe · March 22, 2011 5:27AM

<< <i>Yes, the lines are die polish lines. >>

Thanks... when I saved the photo to My Pictures and enlarged the image, it looked like the lines were on the letters too.

ricko · March 22, 2011 5:28AM

It will slab..... Cheers, RickO

Broadstruck · March 22, 2011 5:40AM

<< <i>Currently raw, kind of an oddball design with a combination raised and sunken relief. >>

One of my favorite designs as I've always liked the deep pie dish strike.

Looks like a nice CH BU.

RWB · March 22, 2011 6:41AM

Harry H. Cochrane's design is certainly an amateurish product, but the Maine folks liked it. As for the relief combinations, those were done by the sculptor and the mint to present detail without getting the relief too high to coin easily.