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Is it too soon? Error Coin Post!

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I've shown these many times before, but I don't know if BROADSTRUCK or JOBESS have seen them.

 

By the way, the Kennedy on my sig line came from a Mint bag and cost me 68c.

 

Chris

 

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BROADSTRUCK, I'll see your 2007-S WY Silver PF69UC, and raise you a 2005-S KS Silver PF70UC.

 

Chris

 

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This 2007-P Sac was one of 26 I found in a $250 Mint bag. At first, I thought the small parallel marks under her chin were the result of a clash, and I didn't even see the marks in the field to the southwest until Billy Crawford pointed them out to me. I couldn't for the life of me get a decent photo, and these pics were courtesy of Billy.

 

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This 1980-P Lincoln with a "retained debris" strikethrough came out of a $50 Mint bag along with 228 "Y" clashes.

 

Chris

 

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cpm9ball, Nice errors however your Buff seems to be just a lamination not a cracked planchet. Laminations are very common on Buffs in general, especially on early branch mints.

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cpm9ball, Nice errors however your Buff seems to be just a lamination not a cracked planchet. Laminations are very common on Buffs in general, especially on early branch mints.

 

10-4, good buddy!

 

Chris

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This 2007-P Sac was one of 26 I found in a $250 Mint bag. At first, I thought the small parallel marks under her chin were the result of a clash, and I didn't even see the marks in the field to the southwest until Billy Crawford pointed them out to me.

I think they ARE the result of a clash, but the dies were rotated from their normal position when they clashed.

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This 2007-P Sac was one of 26 I found in a $250 Mint bag. At first, I thought the small parallel marks under her chin were the result of a clash, and I didn't even see the marks in the field to the southwest until Billy Crawford pointed them out to me.

I think they ARE the result of a clash, but the dies were rotated from their normal position when they clashed.

 

I think Billy had tried rotating the reverse, but couldn't get anything to line up properly. Even so, that still wouldn't account for the parallel lines in the field to the southwest. With the rotation, it doesn't seem that any of the letters in the legend line up, and they're not that wide, anyway.

 

It's got me!

 

Chris

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Here's a proof 2007 Adams Dollar Presidential Series. This is a laser Etching error and there are very few around. This coin was featured in Coin World.

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Not just error coins, but unusual error coins?

 

Ok

 

I'll call this piece a uniface restruck piece of coin shrapnel. It got twisted and mangled, then smoothed out by a strike where you can see Abe; the reverse being struck through likely a blank.

 

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And I suppose an edge strike is unusual. You can see the back of Abe's head.

 

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cpm9ball, the 2003 Sac isn't for real, right?
He's just illustrating where the clashes came from. The reverse isn't overlaying like his picture shows.
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cpm9ball, the 2003 Sac isn't for real, right?

 

Like Coindude said, the photo of the 2003 Sac which Billy provided is for illustrative purposes only to show what areas can be affected when the obverse and reverse dies clash.

 

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Thanks guys. :/

 

I'm trying to imagine others.... I think that one may make the most interesting and beautiful overlay possible.

 

For Morgan collectors, there is a handy little tool designed by Terry Forfa. It's two lucite disks with the obverse of the Morgan laser-etched on one and the reverse on the other. They are pop-riveted together on the center point so that you can not only see how the clashes are produced, but you can also rotate them against one another. The hash marks along the perimeter, spaced in increments of 2.4 degrees, enables you to calculate the degree of rotation.

 

Chris

 

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The only problem with that tool is that it is possible for the dies to not only be rotated, but offset as well. Think clashed mis-aligned dies.

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The only problem with that tool is that it is possible for the dies to not only be rotated, but offset as well. Think clashed mis-aligned dies.

 

That's true, but do you make it a habit of carrying four spare tires in your car in the event that someone slashes all of them?

 

Chris

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