Blended

blended A term applied to an element of a coin (design, date, lettering, etc.) that is worn into another element or the surrounding field.
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blended
A term applied to an element of a coin worn into another element.
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When one coin feature, due to wear, runs or fades into another, such as a date that wears down until it is even with the coin's background.
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Alloy - Coin metal that is made from two or more different metals, blended together in the molten state. Other than United States Large Cents and Half Cents, which are pure copper, all U.S. coins have been alloyed.

The various metals are melted into liquid in an electric furnace and thoroughly blended to make the alloy. They are then poured into moulds and allowed to cool, forming flat thin bars.

Elite Recommendations: Take your choice of either MS-65 or Proof-65, and of a color objective (such as brown, nicely blended red and brown, or red), and then build a matched set in that category.

Note: The alloy for this specimen was not blended perfectly, which has created a very interesting and eye appealing effect - all along the margin and some of the protected areas of the reverse have beautiful silvery surfaces, ...

Light adjustment marks and minor scratches are blended on the upper reverse with a few other very light scratches on both surfaces. Quite sharply struck and attractive, despite the obligatory statement about surface quality.

Good: The rim is the indicator at this grade. It has blended slightly with the lettering and date. Washington's portrait is still strong but lacking most detail. This quarter has experienced years of circulation.

Grading factors such as luster, strike, scratches, and other flaws must be blended together to arrive at the proper grade. In other words do not grade the coin based upon one particular preference you have.

Full Split Bands (abbreviated "FSB") resulted from striking by fresh dies, and have proven to be much rarer than blended, flattened bands.

A term used for a Jefferson nickel where 5 ½ or 6 steps leading up to Monticello on the coin's reverse are fully defined. Full Steps are rarer than "blended" steps are an important modifier in grading Jefferson nickels.
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This second act lasted for about four years, and it gradually blended into a third, which would occupy the final years of eighteenth-century token production.

This is for "Very Fine" (the grade) and "20" (the numerical designation of the grade). Wing feathers show most of their detail, lettering is readable but sometimes indistinct and some minor detail is sometimes separate but usually blended.
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Present day Britons are descended mainly from the varied ethnic stocks that settled there before the eleventh century. The pre-Celtic, Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse influences were blended on Great Britain under the Normans, ...

The motto and thirteen stars for the original thirteen states are blended nicely into the design of the wall. The word LIBERTY forms an arc around the top of the coin punctuated by Miss Liberty's head.

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