1860 Indian Head Cent: Topless Letters

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mhonzell · #1 Unread post by **mhonzell** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:33 pm

Trying to grasp what happened to the second E in STATES and the O in Of. Lucky contact marks?
Considered purchase, but I couldn't make sense of these two topless letters.

Daniel · #2 Unread post by **Daniel** » Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:41 pm

Since the area seems to reflect more light then I would go with contact marks but odd that they occurred like that. Nice coin though.

PALH1 · #3 Unread post by **PALH1** » Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:47 pm

from this pic, i gotta go with D here .......

PetesPockets55 · #4 Unread post by **PetesPockets55** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:42 am

Gotta agree with Daniel but I lost count of the E's.
Which E in STATES?

And it looks like the first T has a little anomaly where the left "flag" joins the cross bar.

mhonzell · #5 Unread post by **mhonzell** » Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:12 am

I'm agreeing it's PMD. Just couldn't make sense that contact randomly chose the tops of a few letters from different clock positions.

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