Curious about halo's

alanint · 05-07-2014, 10:07 AM

It is not terribly unusual for dies to create a "ghost" strike when hit hard, as the die would tend to bounce and come back down onto the metal slightly off where it was originally struck.

That being said, I too worry about what I'm seeing on the barrel. It looks like the serial number was "freshened" using a slightly different font of numbers. Artificial "halos" were then added to make it look original. The C/M proof also looks buffed and not at all sharp by comparison.

I say a reblued barrel, which was then freshened to look original.

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05-07-2014, 10:07 AM	#2
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	It is not terribly unusual for dies to create a "ghost" strike when hit hard, as the die would tend to bounce and come back down onto the metal slightly off where it was originally struck. That being said, I too worry about what I'm seeing on the barrel. It looks like the serial number was "freshened" using a slightly different font of numbers. Artificial "halos" were then added to make it look original. The C/M proof also looks buffed and not at all sharp by comparison. I say a reblued barrel, which was then freshened to look original.