A curious case for BJ! Tri-directional trails?

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  • JonMN34
    Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 414

    #1

    A curious case for BJ! Tri-directional trails?

    Just came across this little fellow tonight with what appears to be trails in three directions.

    The right side of the Memorial, the Initials and the T in CENT have what appear to be 60 degree trails.

    The E and CE in ONE CENT have trails at about 150 degrees.

    Finally the left side of the memorial, STATE and E of E PLURIBUS have trails at about 270 degrees.

    Due to the state of the coin's preservation the trails are less pronounced, but are all there to be seen. I had trouble with the trails at the left of the coin.

    The arrow at the trail on the left of the memorial is about as strong as the trails at the rest of the left of the memorial. While the trails off of the S and E at the left are of similar strength to the rest of the trails at the left.

    The trails off of the E and C of E CENT are stronger than they appear in the image and are off of each bar of the 1st E and the upper arm of the C.


    I can't recall seeing a tri-directional trail die before and definitely do not see this die (or similar) on traildies.com

    Thoughts?
    Jon
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    Finally got my "Blog of Finds" going - Looking for copies of the following books: RPM book - (older edition is fine) - CUD book - BIE book
  • jcuve
    Moderator, Die & Variety Expert
    • Apr 2008
    • 15458

    #2
    The ONE CENT and FG look like trails, not sure about the upper corner of the memorial as it has a different character (at least in these pictures) and moves with what appears as some die polish lines. Nice eyes and a nice find! I'm sure BJ will chime in on this one...



    Jason Cuvelier


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    CONECA

    (images © Jason Cuvelier 2008-18)___________________

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    • JonMN34
      Member
      • Sep 2008
      • 414

      #3
      I'll get some better shots of STATES and the E in ONE, as soon as my camera battery charges

      At the minimum there are two directions here
      Finally got my "Blog of Finds" going - Looking for copies of the following books: RPM book - (older edition is fine) - CUD book - BIE book

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      • trails
        Moderator, Error Expert
        • Feb 2008
        • 3358

        #4
        JonMN34 - I know that this die it is not listed and I do believe that there is another trail die with three sets of different directional lines. If possible, I would very much like to see this coin.

        Thanks.

        BJ
        ANA, CCC, CONECA, FUN, Fly-In-Club, NLG & "The Error-Variety Education Consortium"

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        • Benny53
          Member
          • Mar 2009
          • 90

          #5
          I like this one...nice find and great eye!

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          • JonMN34
            Member
            • Sep 2008
            • 414

            #6
            Here are the better images
            Attached Files
            Finally got my "Blog of Finds" going - Looking for copies of the following books: RPM book - (older edition is fine) - CUD book - BIE book

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            • JeanK
              Member
              • Sep 2008
              • 5696

              #7
              Good eyes Jon! The more trails the better! Congratulations.
              Jean

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              • mikep

                #8
                Very nice. I like those older traildies.

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