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The 1971-D die-state TIGER CLAW
The IKE
GROUP’s Brian Vaile found the first of these die-state ’71-D Ikes and named
them “Tiger Claw”. We have subsequently
found about a cozen more, all the same die, all from original rolls, all
low-grade MS.
We could not
come up with an explanation, at least nothing that really fit these in-relief
somewhat irregular linear divots into the field of the die.
Then, at the
Baltimore ANA show this past August (2008), an unidentified gentleman took one
look and casually said…
(here we give
you whatever time you may chose to see if you can figure it out for yourself)
… “that was caused by a hand-held skipping
abrading wheel”. BINGO!