Posts: 103 Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Menands (Albany) NY
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:51 pm
Couldn't find the topic I was looking for, and not sure this belongs here, but.. I found this the other day and finally got around to taking a photo. What happened next to the T in cent? The pictures make it look like extra metal, when it is actually is indented.
I agree with Steven. It looks like a strike through. As far as what it was struck through, anything from grease to a fragment is a possibility. _________________ Bob Piazza
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Got to agree with Bob and Steven, a strike through a foreign object. Now this is the interesting part; since it looks like the raised part is an actual section of the planchet we can surmise what has happened. A hard piece of material (metal?) came between the planchet and the reverse die (this is the most passable die to have it happen to since the reverse die is usually the anvil die [non-moving] while the hammer die is the obverse die [moving]). The initial strike more than likely imbedded the foreign object into the planchet and also damaged the reverse die. Each strike after that, left a raised area in the field where the foreign object had been and the damage occured on the reverse die. How long this die was left in service after this happened is anyone's guess but I would think that it was eventually caught by a mint inspector and taken out of service.
