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?2000? Dime How Did This Happen

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 Posted 05/02/2022  08:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list
Great find!
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 Posted 05/02/2022  08:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JimmyD to your friends list
Nice find
Looks like an early stage Die Cap
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 Posted 05/02/2022  10:00 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oddguy to your friends list
very nice
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 Posted 05/02/2022  10:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Willburton to your friends list
Awesome coin. Long story short two dimes got struck one on top of another. This being the bottom one. That isn't the full explanation, you can find that here.

https://www.error-ref.com/

Under capped die strike I think.
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 Posted 05/02/2022  11:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add RoscoeCham to your friends list
Thanks everyone! Much appreciated!
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 Posted 05/02/2022  11:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
Looks like a deteriorating die cap. Note how the cap is thinning and more of the obverse design is coming through on the struck through area.
https://www.error-ref.com/?s=Die+Caps
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 Posted 05/02/2022  12:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add RoscoeCham to your friends list
I took a couple more pictures comparing it with another dime. Can you tell me which it is that causes the copper rim to be opposite of normal?
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 Posted 05/02/2022  12:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add RoscoeCham to your friends list
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The normal one is on the left.
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05/02/2022 12:35 pm
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 Posted 05/02/2022  12:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ijn1944 to your friends list
Rather neat, I'd say.
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 Posted 05/02/2022  12:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add RoscoeCham to your friends list
Sorry one more picture... Better...

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 Posted 05/02/2022  12:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
The red color on the edge is the same thickness on all dimes. The differences? The Red color longer denotes the direction the blank was cut off the stock material. Thus the wider copper band is towards the bottom of the cut. When struck in collar, it makes the red look longer because of the smearing cut of the blank.
On the last image. The left coin was cut from the reverse side. The other coin was Cut from the obverse side. They just got flipped in direction because of the setup process and the flipping over of the blanks/planchets before the Strike. Just a normal event, but know why they are different is in your searching technique. Now you know why this happens.

CoopHome: Why do the copper colors look different on the edges of clad coins?
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 Posted 05/02/2022  1:06 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add RoscoeCham to your friends list
Thank you!
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 Posted 05/02/2022  5:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dearborn to your friends list

Quote:
also, on a normal dime the copper edge is on the obverse (heads) side but this one it's on the reverse(tails) side.

Not true, the side that the copper falls on is random. I cannot see a way that the mint can control the orientation of the copper.
I dipped into my bag of dimes and grabbed a few dime to check before posting my response.
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 Posted 05/02/2022  7:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add RoscoeCham to your friends list
Thank you for the correction I appreciate it! I assumed they should all be the same... All I have looked at recently have been the same...
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 Posted 05/24/2022  5:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list
I never studies this. I think Dear is right it is random. Must be the band and the bins the blank fall and then are drive to the press, so could be different side. It is suppose to be what COOP say but one reason of other infirm this.
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