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Amazing broken dollar

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brokencc

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Just thought we'd get our feet wet in this forum by sharing images of the pinnacle coin in our collection. We do have a website for conducting numismatic business and it is the feature of that website. Enjoy and let us know what you think........ www.brokencc.com By the way, PCGS has certified this 1884-CC MS64 in a two part holder (1 holder for each half).

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gmarguli

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I wonder if that "error" could be reproduced by super freezing the coin until it became like glass and then breaking the coin in half?

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brokencc

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Good question Greg.

That is the question we are most often asked. If you saw the coin in person and could see the edges of the break you'd see the metal being black from the impurities in the planchet. This probably occured by the planchet bieng made from an inferior strip of metal. Really we don't know how common this was in the minting process because most of these types of errors went back into the melting pot. We only know of one other broken planchet dollar, a 79-S with a small elliptical break. It just sold in the Bowers and Merena Rarities sale 09/20/02 as lot #627.

Besides, if we thought it had been made other than by the minting process we would not have put our hard earned money into it, and PCGS would have not certified it. wink.gif

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