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Pillar of the Community
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Suppose the dollars are being struck until there is a die cap on reverse or the obverse. The operator pulls the die with cap off and saves it until there is a die cap on the opposing die and then remounts the first die cap to run again?
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Rest in Peace
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Run it again...  ..Why wouldn't he/she just throw it in the recycle bin..? |
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Why wouldn't he/she just throw it in the recycle bin..? Because playtime at the mint isn't just fun, it's profitable. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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I know where this is from and I was going to ask here to, BTW the description for it is weird, they only describe it as off center
Feel free to call me Will.
Edited by thedollarman
06/20/2014 3:14 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Looks like it also had rotated axis. Auction over, let's hear how it happened?
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A bored, well experienced press operator had some time to kill. He was intimately familiar with his machine, knew how to set up to avoid errors and also knew how to create some if he wanted to. Didn't take him long to crank out two caps and a cool looking piece to sneak out after work. Today he's in a senior's home somewhere, on a fixed income, regretting the day he sold to an Ottawa dealer for twenty bucks.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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06/28/2014 1:19 pm
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Rest in Peace
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I really wonder how many Mint employees have been approached buy collectors...friends to do some off normal strikes and slip them out the door... |
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It appears that two dollar coins were struck into an unstruck planchet, leaving a pair of mirror brockages. The coin that left the obverse brockage (Queen's bust) was off-center. From the looks of it, this would appear to be an authentic -- albeit intentional -- error.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Pillar of the Community
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Why do collectors give credence to such fabrications?
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Pillar of the Community
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A lot of collectors believe that the 1966 small beads dollar was created on purpose, the 1967 double struck 50 cent and dollars are catalogued yet they were custom made due to sheer numbers, and so on. Most of the coolest error had some help in it's creation or help leaving the mint, just to add this coin was really cool in hand at the auction.
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But $6000 worth of cool?
Ever since a dealer showed and explained a '67 double to me many years ago I've been perplexed.
$100-$150 worth of cool I could understand,but....
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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The final price was a little surprising, two bidders loved it, but ms65 version of the 67 double struck dollar goes for around 4000.00 as does high graded 66 small beads. Dollar errors are seldom seen.
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I was the underbidder, and I know the person I was bidding against was willing to "go deep", so I let it go... it is cool, because it is probably the ONLY nickel dollar with a mirror brockage that exists. Coins that heavy and hard, were unlikely to stick to the hammer or anvil die...
If you collector errors, specific to a a series (like I do with nickel dollars), then a coin like this is deeply attractive, whether it was made intentionally or not.
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"It appears that two dollar coins were struck into an unstruck planchet, leaving a pair of mirror brockages. The coin that left the obverse brockage (Queen's bust) was off-center. From the looks of it, this would appear to be an authentic -- albeit intentional -- error"
Thanks, sounds good to me.
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Why do collectors give credence to such fabrications? Iam with DBM on this one I think it only encourages more deception from mint workers. $100 bucks worth of cool IMO..that way its not worth making and getting caught. |
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