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Valued Member
United States
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Looking through my relatives coins and came across this. I believe this is a partial collar/railroad but want the experts advice. I don't see many old gold coins in person so don't know if it is common on the small coins or not (like on dimes/cents). It starts at the dot between '2' and 'U' and goes all around till the 'C' in "AMERICA". Splits reeds starting at the 'I' in "UNITED" and goes to split above reeds at 'S' in "STATES"   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If the coin is fully reeded then it is not a partial collar. The bottom part of the first pic is out of focus but it appears to have a slight die misalignment.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I concur on the slight "misaligned die" (MAD). It just MIGHT be enough (barely) for PCGS/NGC to put mint error on the slab. However, with most other denominations, like pennies, that amount 'off center' would not constitute a significant error and not make it on the slab.
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Valued Member
 United States
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Hope this is a better pic of the whole reverse of the coin   |
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Valued Member
United States
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Can you get an image of the edge?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Another telling question - is the other side of the coin normal? That'll settle the MAD vs partial collar question.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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this is what a partial collar/railroad rim looks like  |
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United States
460 Posts |
Can't get a clear pic but it is a regular reeded edge so it must be a misaligned die. So I take it that there is no real added value to it?
On another note, it is amazing how much knowledge that I have learned from you all over the past few years. Last time I looked at this coin (few years back) I never saw the edge. Same goes with many other coins.
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Pillar of the Community
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it would carry a significant premium if you could get it slabbed as a mint error with misaligned dies. I'd put the changes of PCGS/NGC doing that that at 50/50.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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usually it has to be missing some details for them to slab it as an error but I have seen them slabbed as errors that didn't have any details missing but I don't think this one has a shot of making it into a error slab. But that is just my opinion and it has been wrong before
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Valued Member
United States
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I think it would be too minor to get into an error slab. It is cool.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Here's one of mine that is not missing detail that managed to get slabbed an error. If I ever thought about selling this one, it would be worth 3-5X with the error on the slab, even it if is minor. I sent in another one just like it that they rejected as an error, so you never know.  |
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United States
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Robbudo, I think your coins shows much greater spread than Dumprat's 2 1/2.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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yeah I agree, that Morgan is way more Misaligned than the gold coin shown above. The Morgan is almost all the way down to the denticles in the 6:00-7:00 area
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