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Broken "C" In A 1938 50 Cent Coin - Common?

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 Posted 11/11/2013  3:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add NathanASE to your friends list
Unfortionitely its definitely PMD...
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 Posted 02/23/2014  10:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GaryN to your friends list
I know many of you have looked at this, but because there's no other sign of any damage beside where the C is cut, I just can't imagine how something could have so perfectly cut into the C and have the cut-out part exactly the same depth as the surroundings and the exact same texture.

If there's anyone else out there who'd have a lot of this year's coins, could I ask that you have a second look at them and see if there's any that could have been previously passed off as PMD, but are really a minting problem.

Thanks so much for your time.


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02/23/2014 11:00 am
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 Posted 02/23/2014  6:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coin Chick to your friends list
Gary

Pginrh is the expert on Canadian 50 cent pieces. He's looked at more than anyone else ever... He's written the 50 cent varieties and errors section in 2 Charlton books including the newest one in 2014.

Nickelsguy is also an expert on errors and forgeries.

I don't think you require anyone else's opinion, you've had a couple of the best already reply to you.
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 Posted 02/24/2014  3:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lambecolin to your friends list
Look at the myriad contact points on the left----it's as if a 747 came in for a landing --bounced off the denticles , skip over some waves, swerved to the right, gained a bit of altitude, clipped the C and made it into the air again----whew!
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 Posted 02/24/2014  10:24 pm  Show Profile   Check Pacificoin's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add Pacificoin to your friends list
PMD for sure just ran through our 55 we have in stock and nope you do not have a lottery win sorry!
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 Posted 02/25/2014  10:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list
GaryN...I used my program to illustrate what I think has happened..I made it 3D so you can see it better..Look at the arrows..They point to high points which is indicative of some one or some thing gouging out your coin..PMD


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 Posted 02/25/2014  10:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GaryN to your friends list
That is so cool. I'll have to conseed that it was PMD, I guess my question is what would have happened to it to completely damage the C, but not the sourounding? Maybe it was a deliberate act? Anyhow, thanks so much for all your help.
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 Posted 02/25/2014  2:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lambecolin to your friends list
The A is also gouged out--shows on all photos and reveals the direction of the gouge from the left to the right. Gouged out from the denticles to the A.
Great photos!!!
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 Posted 02/26/2014  07:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add darryldarryl to your friends list
Flow of the metal tells the story.
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 Posted 03/04/2014  5:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rezin to your friends list
I WOULD AGREE IT IS A MINT ERROR.I HAVE MANY 50 CENT PIECES AND I DONT HAVE ANYTHIG THAT COMES CLOSE.NICE PIECE!
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 Posted 03/05/2014  11:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Alexer to your friends list
rezin...
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I WOULD AGREE IT IS A MINT ERROR.
I'm not sure who your agreeing with it seems to me everyone here agrees its PMD.

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 Posted 03/06/2014  08:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list
I agree with pennyman007...PMD...Definitely not a MINT error.
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 Posted 03/07/2014  9:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GaryN to your friends list
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 Posted 03/08/2014  11:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DBM to your friends list
Yup that pic clinches it, PMD.

Pyrenees Mountains Diorama
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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03/08/2014 12:09 pm
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 Posted 03/08/2014  10:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add west- canuk to your friends list
Between lambecolin and DBM 's colourful descriptions , I now have thoughts of a mountain jet crash and survivor cannibalism. I think CCN has found JRs successors.
Oh, and for what it's worth ,I agree , PMD.
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