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Originally Posted by notsponsored  PM sent.
PS: Some of the inlays look unsharp and the golden colour seems to be removed. Maybe the side, where the hot stamp was? |
Correct... mostly. The gold colour is still there; it was just the lighting/angle when I took the picture.
Of the 18 St Jo's chips pictured in the last 3 photos, 9 (on the left) are shown "good side up":
and 9 (on the right) are shown "bad side up":
where "bad side" refers to the side that used to have a cancellation hot-stamp. The good side looks factory-fresh. The "bad side" has minor damage to the original hot-stamp, and you can often see a ring where the cancellation hot-stamp used to be. Notice that the close-up of the "bad side" still shows shiny gold stamps when the light hits them correctly.
As mentioned above, all the St Jo's chips got stamped like this when Jim (TheChipRoom) acquired them. A lot of people have removed the cancellation stamp from St Jo's with denominations of $1 and up (which have inlays), but it's a bit trickier removing it from the 50¢ chips without wrecking the original hot-stamp. This is as good as you'll find (unless you prefer the cancellation stamp intact).
