Peg-leg's

                                                                                                                                             Peg-leg's

 IDDD position on Peg-legs by Thomas Kalantzis.

 Date 10/18/2012.

  IDDD position on Peg legs and why? Early on the mint had realized a problem with San Francisco Working dies, a critical flaw in design, early on the mint was dealing with dies braking up so fast a fix was needed, till a fix was realized a repair was needed, the Working hubs were abraded and then used in the hubbing process to make Working dies, notice all the 1971 high relief proofs and at least one low relief San Francisco die where abraded, the first experimental fix application to create peg legs for 1971 S dies, all show the left side (Bottom left serif) of the R removed and the right side changing from die to die, that is possible because each first fix Working hub was abraded separately from left to right, the Working dies are abraded as needed and is one reason they do not look alike, another is the Working die itself gets abraded and more changes occur to the Working die depending on the amount of abrasion the die receives, abrading was done to both Working hub and the Working die.. Take a look at the pictures of the peg legs below, any peg leg that has no leg serif is due to heavy die abrasion, the peg leg itself is hub and die abrasion event.

The second hub fix used on, to date, one die for Philadelphia and Denver in 1971 and 1972, this time tooled on both sides of the foot of the R in liberty, both serif tips are cut off making the leg look straight or square, then the process of hubbing the new die begins, the new working die is then abraded as needed.

1972 Proof, by this time the mint should have received the new die steel, did the new die steel do the job? if so then why did the mint change the distance between the Rs foot and the head?

It seems even though new steel was incorporated the mint chose to change the design, with a straight or square foot and more space between the the foot and the head.

 

                                               The critical Flaw in design

 The mint realized they had an issue after production started and demand an issue.

The critical Flaw hub side. Lets think in terms of reality, first a hub looks just like the coins we collect, with the lettering, design and the date standing high above the field on the coins planchet (The coin itself) on the hub side we see the R in liberty very close to the head and a very thin open space between them, think of it as the spaces we see between IN GOD WE TRUST with each letter having a space between them, what is the implication, doe's it effect the hubbing process NO, could this effect the working die? YES.

                                           The Die side of the critical flaw

The critical Flaw die side. This time we need to look at this opposite of the hub, the working die used to make the coin is incused  interesting when we read, the letters are always dark so to highlight the letters themselves, think about it, it is how we read and how we see things as interpreted eye to brain, now lets read the Working die exactly opposite of what the eye is used to.

The dies letters and head and date are incused high point is the top of the head, the die has two deep points very close to each other, the R in liberty (The foot) and the head are in very close proximity to each other, with a very thin piece of die steel between them (The Flaw) also the the foot of the R has very sharp points on each side and are level to and consensual to each other creating a short but sharp pressure point on the die, one point to the other, add the pressure the die receives as the coins are struck causes the dies flaw to interact with the pressure of the blow from the hammer producing early die failure in the form of die's cracking up with the cracks always going in the same direction as the serifs on the R east to west or west to east but never north and south, the cracking normally seen on the head below the R or on the fields left or right of the R in Liberty.. The dies where designed to produce X amount of coins per die anything less would have to be made up by further production using more working dies to make up for the shortfall.. Abrading the hub and the die the answer.

The 1971-S FS-401 low relief was abraded the same as the high relief proofs as was done to the well-known Wexler Die WDDO-007 and Wiles DDO-009, IDDD has it listed as IDDDO-8A.

There is a third 1971 S peg leg, we believe straight peg leg is another yet another method of abrading the R in liberty, this time both serifs where abraded on each side as well as the top of the leg creating a more square leg and both serifs even, this was another experiment the mint used to create a square peg leg, there are four known low relief dies to date with this experimental straight peg leg, one die for 1971 S, one die for 1971 D, one die for 1972 P and one for 1972 D, the one known 1971 S straight leg is listed as IDDDO+V-118.

IDDD believes straight leg, peg legs, are experimental in nature (The second fix) and the shape being the precursor for all 1972 S and beyond peg legs. 

By 1972 a change was made for 1972 S proofs, a design peg leg is finally made and continued.

     Further up-dates are to this process are possible and will be added as realized.

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      The values shown below are just a guide, and not an authoritative price guide.           

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                                                                  Philadelphia - Peg Leg population and values. 

                      Experimental in nature ( Low relief Full Straight Peg leg ) Single die known to date ( Rare )             

  1972 P Pop.24-40. MS67 12K. . MS66 9K. . MS65 350. . MS64 150. . MS63 85. . MS62 75. . MS61 65. .

 MS60 50. . AU58 45.1. AU55 40. . AU50 35. . XF48 30. . XF40 20. . VF35 15. . VF20 12. . F12 10. . VG 8. .

                                                

 The above peg leg is Experimental in nature, was abraded on the hub with a dremal type tool, was also abraded on the die side, to date only one die is known for 1972 P discovered by IDDD this coin was shared with James Wiles.

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                                      Type 1 design ( Low Peg leg ) populations and values ( Bold reverse ) 

   1976 P Pop.500+. MS67 00. . MS66 00. . MS65 00.466 . MS64 00.15. MS63 00.22. MS62 00.1. MS61 00. . 

   MS60 00. .  AU58 0. . AU55 0. . AU50 0. . XF48 0. . XF45 0. . XF40 0. . VF35 0. . VF20 0. . F12 0. . VG 0. . 

                                                     

            The above Philadelphia peg leg is a design type peg leg, normally found from 1972 to 1976.        

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                                                                     Denver - Peg Leg population and values. 

                                 Experimental in nature ( Low relief Straight Peg leg ) RDV-006 - FEV ( Scarce )

 1971 D Pop.3,800+. MS67 1K. . MS66 650. . MS65 375.843. . MS64 175. . MS63 90. .  MS62 75.1. MS61 55. .

 MS60 40. . AU58 30. . AU55 25. . AU50 20. . XF48 17. . XF45 15. . XF40 13. . VF35 11. . VF20 10. . F12 5. . VG 4. .

                                                  

  The above 1972 D peg leg is paired with the FEV reverse, Experimental in nature, was abraded on the hub with a dremal type tool, was also abraded on the die side.

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                                      Experimental in nature ( Low relief Straight Peg leg ) ( Scarce )

 1971 D Pop.10+. MS67 7K. . MS66 795. . MS65 405.1. MS64 195. . MS63 100. .  MS62 80.1. MS61 75. .

 MS60 70. . AU58 55. . AU55 45. . AU50 40. . XF48 30. . XF45 25. . XF40 20. . VF35 14. . VF20 10. . F12 5. . VG 4. .

                                                  

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                                                       Experimental in nature ( Peg leg ) ( Scarce )  

 1972 D Pop.405+ . MS67 8K. . MS66 540.351. MS65 225.1. MS64 50.6. MS63 30.7. MS62 54.3. MS61 22. .

  MS60 14 .2. AU58 11.1. AU55 10.3. AU53 9.1. AU50 8. . XF48 7. . XF45 6. . XF40 5. . VF35 3.25. .

  VF20 2.55 2.55. . F12 1.50. . VG 1.25. .

                              

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                                                           Design Peg leg population and values ( Rare )

 1974 D Pop.1,900+. MS67 11K. . MS66 850. . MS65 225.1,475 . MS64 110. . MS63 65. . MS62 45. . MS61 37. .

  MS60 31. . AU58 26. . AU55 20. . AU50 14. . XF48 12. . XF45 11. . XF40 10. . VF35 8. . VF20 6. . F12 4. . VG 2. . 

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                               Type I design ( High Peg leg ) population and values ( Bold reverse ) ( Scarce )   

 1976 D Pop. 1,400+. MS67 4K. . MS66 195. . MS65 135.1,098. MS64 75.4. MS63 55. . MS62 40. . MS61 25. .

  MS60 20. . AU58 15.2. AU55 12.1. AU50 10. . XF48 9. . XF45 8. . XF40 7. . VF35 3. . 

  VF20 2.50. . F12 1.50. . VG 1.25. .

                                                

  Notice the above R in liberty has been abraded heavy on the die to the point some of the R at the bottom has been abraded out

 The R below looks a little different, it was abraded less this time on the Working die resulting in yet another peg-leg and again somewhat different then the above R, the reason is this die was abraded less on the Working die then the above Working die was treated, why, more then likely a secondary issue arose possibly the dies clashed or some other problem.

 Note, both R are peg-legs indicating the hubs are in fact abraded first then again on the Working die as needed, all die's are before put to use are abraded and polished.

                                                 

  The pictures above are of the high peg leg variety, the two pictures below the first are of the same coin also has clipped planchet by Brian Vaile.

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                                             Type 2 design ( Low Peg leg ) population and values ( Bold reverse ) ( Scarce ) 

  1976 D Pop. 1,400+. MS67 4K. . MS66 195. . MS65 135.1.098. MS64 75.4. MS63 55. . MS62 40.1. MS61 25. .

  MS60 20. . AU58 15.2 Raw. AU55 12.1 Raw. AU50 10. . XF48 9. . XF45 8. . XF40 7. . VF35 3. . 

  VF20 2.50. . F12 1.50. . VG 1.25. .    

                                                              

                                                                                                      1976 D Type I Design low Peg leg

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                                                           Peg leg population and values ( Rare ) 

 1977 D Pop.34 - 45. MS67 11K. . MS66 6K. . MS65 320.5. MS64 125.14. MS63 75.7. MS62 40.1. MS61 35. .

  MS60 30. . AU58 22. . AU55 20. . AU50 15. . XF48 11. . XF45 10. . XF40 9. . VF35 7. . VF20 6. . F12 3. . VG 2.

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                                                          Peg leg population and values ( Rare ) 

 1978 D Pop.34 - 45. MS67 11K. . MS66 6K. . MS65 320.5. MS64 125.14. MS63 75.7. MS62 40.1. MS61 35. .

  MS60 30. . AU58 22. . AU55 20. . AU50 15. . XF48 11. . XF45 10. . XF40 9. . VF35 7. . VF20 6. . F12 3. . VG 2. . 

             

        Thank you to Andrew J Oskam & the Ike Group for sharing the above picture 1978 D Peg-leg and others above.

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                                                                San Francisco - Peg legs.

                    1971 S - High relief Proof hub and die abraded Fading Peg leg population and values ( Rare )

 1971 S Pop.5. PF69 00. . PF68 00. . PF67 00. . PF66 00. . PF65 00. . PF64 00. . PF63 00. . PF62 00. . PF61 00. . 

                               

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        1971 S Low relief Experimental in nature ( Straight Peg leg ) population and values ( Rare ) IDDDO+V-118.

 1971 S Pop.1. MS67 6K. . MS66 1K. . MS65 500. . MS64 110.1. MS63 65. . MS62 45. . MS61 40. . MS60 35. .

 AU58 30. . AU55 28. . AU50 26. . XF45 24. . XF 23. . VF35 21. . VF30 19. . VF20 18. . F18 17. . F 16. . VG 15. .

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                                        1971 S - Low relief Peg leg FS-401 population and values ( Scarce )

 1971 S Pop. . MS68 2K. . MS67 1.5K. . MS66 1K. . MS65 300. . MS64 85. . MS63 35. . MS62 30. . MS61 25. .

 MS60 20. . AU58 18. . AU55 17. . AU50 16. . XF45 14. . XF 12. . VF35 10. . VF20 9. . F18 8. . F 6. . VG 4. .

                                 

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                                1973 S Silver PF High relief design Peg leg population and values ( Very Rare )

 1973 S Pop. . PF69 . . PF68 . . PF67 4K. . PF66 1K. . PF65 500. . PF64 110. . PF63 65. . PF62 45. . PF61 40. .

                                                      

                                                            Thanks to Andrew J Oskam for sharing the above picture 1973 S Peg leg.

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                                  1974 S Silver PF High relief design Peg leg population and values ( Rare )

 1974 S Pop. . PF69 . . PF68 . . PF67 4K. . PF66 1K. . PF65 500. . PF64 110. . PF63 65. . PF62 45. . PF61 40. .

                                                

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                                                    1974 S CN PF High relief design Peg leg ( Scarce )

 1974 S Pop. . PF69 . . PF68 . . PF67 . . PF66 . . PF65 . . PF64 . . PF63 . . PF62 . . PF61 . . PF60 . . 

                              

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                                  1976 S Silver 40% design Low Peg leg type 1 Bold reverse. Also IDDDR-1B

 1976 S Pop.1. MS69 00. . MS68 00. . MS67 00. . MS66 00. . MS65 00.1 Raw . MS64 00. . MS63 00. . MS62 00.1.

 MS61 00. . MS60 00. . AU58 00. . AU55 00. . AU50 00. . XF45 00. . XF40 00. . VF35 00. . VF20 00. . F12 0. . VG 0. .

                                                          

                             

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                                                            1976 S Silver PF design Peg leg type 1.

 1976 S Pop.20,300+. PF69 00.20,295. . PF68 00. . PF67 00. . PF66 00. . PF65 00. . PF64 00. .

  PF63 00. . PF62 00. . PF61 00. .                 

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                                      1976 S CN PF design Low Peg leg type 1 Bold reverse. Also IDDDR-1

 1976 S Pop.11,300+. PF69 00.11,300. . PF68 00. . PF67 00.1 Raw . PF66 00. . PF65 00. . PF64 00. .

  PF63 00. . PF62 00. . PF61 00. .

                           

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