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i hope mike diamond sees this then! THanks coop, not a double strike I'm assuming? I was thinking of listing it on ebay. But obviously not if it isn't a true error! Hope more people can shed some light on this! Thanks for the comments! |
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Quote:The area on the obverse is split plating. Possibly caused from die movement on the Machine Doubling. Reverse Rejection doubling coop? Edited by Coppertop
02/08/2012 7:51 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've seen this effect before -- on the obverse and in the same area -- but I don't understand it. Yes, the copper plating has split, but that doesn't explain why the letters are small and strongly offset. Yours is the best example I've seen and I'd like to write it up for Coin World. If this is to your liking, please contact me at mdia1@aol.com. Error coin writer and researcher.
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Bedrock of the Community
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My hypothesis is double struck in collar. The stress of two strikes, first being forced up into the relief and then flattened because the second strike is slightly offset, is enough to cause the split of the plating and the distortion of the letters as the metal flows outward. Maybe it only happens in cases of thin or poorly bonded plating. It makes sense in my brain at least.
I'll be anxious to read Mr. Diamond's writeup.
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Bedrock of the Community
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If it were doubled struck, wouldn't the rest of the devices be affected the same as well? Maybe an ejection issue.
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Canada
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 It will be interesting to read Mike's assessment if the OP allows Mike to examine the coin and do a write up for it. |
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Thanks Mike. I sent an Email
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The article on this coin is in this week's Coin World. The tiny letters of exposed zinc are an unusual form of split plating doubling. Error coin writer and researcher.
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United States
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Im curious would this be dropped lettering with split plating? This is a very unusual coin indeed though. Despite the fact split plating has no value but I'm curious what something like this would go for because of its uniqueness.
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Awesome find to have a coin written up in Coin World. |
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These are not dropped letters. These letters represent tears in the copper plating. I really can't hazard a guess as to its value. Because it's a rare manifestation of what is otherwise a common form of doubling, it's certainly worth more than face value.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Error coin writer and researcher.
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That's really interesting. It must be extremely rare for the extra letters to survive intact like that. They'd be formed at the first moment the die kisses the planchet, but would then have to flow outward through the devices without getting peeled up or distorted. I wonder if some slight bounce or chatter during striking is what allowed that to happen.
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Machine Doubling might have been a contributing factor, as there's quite a bit of it on IN GOD WE TRUST and ONE CENT.
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