Is that a seal on the roof?

[Buffalo Head]

Yep, that's right folks it's a seal on the roof. Now how in the heck it got up there I have know idea, but there it is. There also looks as there's a slug crawling up Jefferson neck. Strange coin for sure. If ya look at this coin you can see the die has been just polished to death, probably to remove the clashing you see and more you don't. The Monticello building itself looks a little twisted and out of shape. I think this is a cool coin and one ya don't see everyday..

 

[Coindude]

Joe, it looks like a clashed die to me. Maybe someone will be nice enough to superimpose the two images.

[physics-fan3.14]

While there is some clashing on that coin, what he is calling the seal is actually a die break. Cool coin!

[RWB]

It's a manatee, not a seal. No seals in Charlottesville, VA.

[DWLange]

The dies were severely clashed and eroded, and then they were heavily repolished to extend their utility. The coinage dated 1966 was a rush job, since it didn't commence until August of that year. The mints had been striking 1965-dated pieces up to that point.

[Buffalo Head]

The dies were severely clashed and eroded, and then they were heavily repolished to extend their utility. The coinage dated 1966 was a rush job, since it didn't commence until August of that year. The mints had been striking 1965-dated pieces up to that point.

 

Thanks for that David. I didn't know this and was wondering why they all look so bad.

[messydesk]

One thing I've noticed about 1921 Morgan dollars is that if you look at enough of them, you can tell which mint made them based on how the dies deteriorated. Was the treatment of the dies at the mints producing the 1965-67 coinage different enough so that you can draw some of the same conclusions in some cases? Are there consistencies between differences when comparing 1968 to 1967?