1860 Indian Head Cent: Topless Letters

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1860 Indian Head Cent: Topless Letters

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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.
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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.
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from this pic, i gotta go with D here .......
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Re: 1860 Indian Head Cent: Topless Letters

#4 Unread post by PetesPockets55 »

Gotta agree with Daniel but I lost count of the E's.
Which E in STATES? whistling2:
And it looks like the first T has a little anomaly where the left "flag" joins the cross bar.
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#5 Unread post by mhonzell »

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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