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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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 Posted - 12/26/2007 : 20:28:14
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So I was actually doing a little searching the other day and came across a 1911D in very good shape. The deal is that the "D" is very faint like it is struck lightly. This isn't another, "I found a one-in-a-million penny" post, it is just that there is no wear on the penny really, so I think wear is out of the question. I can't get a picture to come out (ideas?). The date, as well as the rest of the coin, is very boldly stamped without any problems.
So, any ideas or thoughts?
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
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pencilvanian
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 12/27/2007 : 15:23:16
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Per the Whitman Redbook concerning Mintmarks-
The dies for coins are made in the Philadelphia Mint. Dies for the other mints (Denver, San Francisco) were hand stamped into the dies before they were shipped out. This changed in 1985 with the D or S engraved into the working die itself rather than being hand stamped in place.
Maybe one of the dies wasn't stamped too clearly with the letter D.
Either that or the letter D was slowly filled in with metal as the die was used.
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Edited by - pencilvanian on 12/27/2007 15:27:56 |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 12/27/2007 : 17:24:12
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Worth any thing? Not that I expect it to be, just don't want some fantastic coin just sitting around.
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Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams |
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1911 D...or is it
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