What Would You Call this Error?

[Mr. Smith Guesser]

 

The marks on the obverse look like PMD. But from the reverse it looks like a minor broadstrike. Look at ONE DIME on the reverse. The most obvious problems are the bottom arm of E of ONE and the bottom of the bowl of D of DIME should be thicker.

 

There also seems to be a lamination problem on the reverse to the left of the bottom torch band and a small die chip on the bottom of the torch.

 

If you had to put a label on this, what would you call it? Minor broadstrike?

 

Perhaps the marks on the obverse happened when the coin was fed out because it was just a bit too thick? I've seen similar examples on eBay labeled as "feed errors".

 

 

[19Lyds]

I agree that it looks to be broadstruck but then suffered some sort of catastrophic damage to the obverse.

[RWB]

The error's name is "Fred."

[BillJones]

I would say broad struck with post strike damage.

[Conder101]

Does it have a reeded edge?

[cpm9ball]

Does it have a reeded edge?

 

I think I see reeding from about 4:30-7:30 on the obverse.

 

Chris

[Mr. Smith Guesser]

Does it have a reeded edge?

Some...not much:

 

12 o'clock (obv.)

 

3 o'clock (obv.)

 

6 o'clock (obv.)

 

9 o'clock (obv.)

[WoodenJefferson]

Partial strike out of the collar with ejector damage.

[RWB]

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[CaptHenway]

Partial strike out of the collar with ejector damage.

 

This. Got hung up in the machinery because it was too big after being mis-struck.

[Mr. Smith Guesser]

Just found a similar example, although it's not a dime:

 

 

http://koinpro.tripod.com/Error_Coins/NN-2008PNewMexicoQuarterEVs.htm

 

Fred Weinberg of Encino, CA sent 59 examples of 2003-P Arkansas State quarters for study. The coins all exhibited die damage to the obverse and reverse as a series of parallel die lines that run in the same direction (on both sides of the coin) that a number of post-strike scrapes ran on the obverse of many of the coins. In fact the lines from each cause converge into each other so perfectly that it is impossible to tell by looking at photos alone were the lines from the damage end and the die lines start. This uniform directionality of the scrapes confirms their source as almost undoubtedly one and the same. The coins also exhibited areas that appeared as strike-through recesses on the reverse where metal from the scraped coins and/or die had piled up and adhered to the die for a sequence of many very similar but often distinctly different strikes. Additionally, all the coins exhibited strong Titled Partial Collar Strikes meaning that the collar was out of position during the strike resulting in the coins containing virtually no reeding around much of their circumference. For tilted partial collars to occur during the strike and exist in combination with the other problems that seemed to occur to the dies and coins between strikes strongly suggests there is a relationship. Of course, it could have been the feeder/ejector system that caused the collar problem and not visa versa.

[Jon P. Sullivan]

I would call it a partial collar strike because there is some reading on the edge. The marred areas on the obverse are damage.

[RWB]

The horizontal Schuler press mechanism differs from the old toggle press. Understanding the Schuler presses will help with identifying the cause(s) of the error,