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Sure have been enjoying your posts lately, thanks brocephus !
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How could a cracked collar only affect one coin? Could there be more out there?
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Pillar of the Community
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 very cool discovery Errors on silver dollars must be few and far between. -MV |
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That's a neat coin! Thanks for sharing.
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing this Bobby!
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I'm thinking it'll take about $3000 to take this one home. Broken collars and railroad rims are pretty uncommon with Morgans but yet common enough for a well-heeled collector to take a specialized interest in them. This piece is so liquid you have to grip it carefully lest its' viscosity cause it to slip from your grasp.  I'll bet there might be one or two more but the event which shattered the collar made enough noise to be noticed. So, they'd have stopped the press and checked the output for bad coins. |
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Puerto Rico
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Great. For an untrained eye that error would pass as a coin used in jewelry.
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"Coin photographed on a concave mirror"
Brilliant!!
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since this coin was struck with a defective die that means there must be more right? and if so wouldn't that give it a chance at becoming a new VAM? Feel free to call me Will.
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Unless a Mint worker noticed, more specifically heard, the shattered collar, yes, there would be maybe a few more out there unless they were melted back down.
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I'd think this error is somewhere between $2,500 and $5,000 of course that is a guess based on what I've seen errors of a similar type bring. Morgans were made in the tens of millions if not 100's of millions and a lot of errors slipped by.
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Quote:since this coin was struck with a defective die that means there must be more right? and if so wouldn't that give it a chance at becoming a new VAM? The problem here was with the collar, not the die. So, this coin is a VAM (they all are), but the collar problem could only at best be called a subvariety of an existing VAM. I have a side bet that submissions to PCGS and NGC of 1896-P's are going to spike in the near future. I can hear the sound of slabs being cracked all over the country, from my desk. |
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Anyone know where this coin is at and/or how much they are asking for it, if they are selling?
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Interesting. If I saw it, I would have thought it was just PMD. Good to know that they will voluntarily add a special designation without it being requested. Must have been a special surprise for the submitter. |
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