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Valued Member
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What I am talking about is right below the middle band , the vertical band coming up from the bottom band starts getting wide in the middle and then it's all messed up..
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The planchets (blanks) of the unstamped coins have a little oil on them to help in the minting process. After a while the oil residue becomes grease and it will fill up some areas of the die. When details of the die get filled with grease those details will not be transferred to the coin. What I am seeing here is grease filling the die where the details have dropped out. The rest of the coin looks well stamped but certain details will not show at all. This is characteristic of a Grease Filled Die. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Does that fall into varieties or errors (mistakes)?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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No unfortunately it doesn't. It is a very common occurrence. Keep your eyes open for it for now on and you'll see it from time to time, especially on wheat cents and Mercury dimes. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Ok.. I guess it doesn't effect the grade any.. here is another shot of the area as the outside lighting is better today.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Coins like this are commonly referred to as "greasers".
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks for your help and lesson..
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's what we're here for.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hey gold, just a side note but on larger coins like morgans grease strike throughs do get slabbed as error coins depending on how the grease effected the devices. For instance I have a morgan with the D in dollar completely gone from grease filling that letter before the coin was struck.
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Valued Member
United States
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That doesn't sound right to give errors to different size coins just because more people collect them.. lol
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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What he's referring to is the fact the entire "D" was lost. That's what makes it an error.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow, beautiful coin! MS-63!
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Pillar of the Community
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I could be wrong but when I learned about Grease Filled Die errors I was told that the larger the coin the more significant it is in terms of being an error or not as small coins could pass mint inspection easily but such things would be much more magnified and caught on larger coins. (disclaimer- I was not told this by expert ccf members so I could be wrong lol) |
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