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Hello, it's been awhile. I have been trying to understand how sanding on a die could make a buffalo's leg disappear. Wouldn't it make it bigger? Thank you. What am I missing?
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The working dies have the image sunk into the die so when the coinis struck the design is raised on the coin. When the mint workers did maintenance on the die and over polished the die, lowering the area where the two dies "bottom out" or sqeeze together. With that slight gap the two dies did not have enough force to give a good impression of the design element of the leg, leaving the leg mushy or non-existant.
Or, the leg area simply was missed when the mint workers were cleaning out debris. The area then becomes clogged, flush with the flat field of the coin, effectively nulling the design elements of the leg.
In my opinion, unless they got a quote from the person who admits the probability of the over polished die, it makes more sense to me that a clogged area makes more of a logical debate.
It's like anything else, some one finds something and the fate of its popularity is at the mercy of the collectors. If the coin is rare, supply and demand will dictate how much collectors want it. If the coin is plentiful, then a coins value may be very low.
Thus the old saying;
A collectable is only worth as much as the collector is willing to pay for it.Last edited by MintErrors; 05-06-2024, 01:47 AM.Gary Kozera
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Thank you so much. I have been reading the books I have thinking about it every time it had come up. My thoughts you can probably geuss. You have cleared it up plus an interesting tale of what happened. Not to mention a new site. Thanks againComment
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