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This looks to have a bad strike and has been around the block, but there is some oddities to it. Please help with this. I have some other coins with clashes I will post shots of them. Thanks for everyones time with this.
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I see nothing but an ordinary half dollar. You'll have to be more specific about what you find anomalous about it.Mike Diamond. Error coin writer and researcher. -
There looks to be a raised area infront of the Face and Wing on the left side. It is a dot that looks to be something inbetween the layers or possibility of a piece of the die missing on either side causing the dot. The topof the E in WE is very weak almost missing. There also seems to be a light raised area infront of the face similar to the reverse the eagle is holding. I will try to take a better photo.Comment
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There may be a faint clash mark of the olive leaves to the left of Kennedy's forehead, but you'll need to do an overlay to confirm. I see a raised dot to the left of Kennedy's chin and to the left of the tip of the eagle's left wing. Without an examination under a microscope it's impossible to determine of these are die dents, die erosion pits, die chips, or some form of post-strike damage.Mike Diamond. Error coin writer and researcher.Comment
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I hope I don't offend anyone for giving my opinion of what may be wrong with your coin. If I'm right your coin is the only one I have ever seen or heard of like this in my 40 plus years of collecting error and variety coins , I know I have not seen everything out there. I looked at the raised up place on the obverse and the similar one on the reverse and these appear to me like they may be lined up perfectly opposite of each other. I can't tell for sure from just looking at the photos but if they do line up then you may have a unusal coin and there would be more of them out there from this same die group and worth collecting.Originally posted by Coinflipper View Post
This looks like a small piece of the die or a hard piece of metal from something else got in between the dies at exactly the same time as the dies clashed together without a planchet between them.If I'm right then the extra metal fragment made a small indentation in both the obverse and reverse die.Just imagine how unlikely it would be for this to happen . I have learned over the years to not say anything is impossible that happens at the mint. your coin does show what looks like die clash marks on both sides so it is possible that my opinion may be right. Check your coin and see if the little raised areas looks to be directly opposite each other. If they are not then disregard what I said here about the same piece of metal making the die indentations on both dies.Comment
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