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Pillar of the Community
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Yes, but the 1968 dimes weighed 2.33g while 1969 dimes weighed 2.07g (rounded up to 2.1). So while the Philadelphia 1968 blanks were available and the dates can still match up, it seems more probable that a 1969 blank was used - which is ODD. There's not enough detail on the rim/edge to tell where it came from, even with the differences in light.
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Are you sure that 2.33 gram weight isn't the 1968 Cupro-Silver?
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Yeah just confirmed, the nickel dime weighed 2.07 in 68, the copper silver dime weighed 2.3.
Edited by Ugly
04/22/2010 4:46 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Please be careful when using weight on "circulated" wrong planchett coins. The difference in a true UNKNOWN. Just a thought. :-)
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Pillar of the Community
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am I missing something here..It say MS64 RED? Is its on a 10 cent planchet where does the RED come into things?
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Pillar of the Community
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The holder doesn't say red just Heritage's enthusiastic title
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Pillar of the Community
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@coinsr ...
what do you mean? it's uncirculated according to the grader though it's a circulation grade planchet...
Clarify for us?
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I just looked at the image....not the grade.....please disregard my comment on weight.
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Bedrock of the Community
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this has happened many times when US minted other countries coins. What would happen was one of the other countries planchets would get stuck in the hopper and when they were finished minting that countries coins and had that machine set up for an US coin (or the hopper was moved to another press) the planchet got dislodged and was struck with the US dies but it was still on the other countries planchet which made these type of errors
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Pillar of the Community
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Whoever posted this just drummed up some business for HA. Anyone going to bid on it?
Edited by Ugly
04/23/2010 09:46 am
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Pillar of the Community
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depends what is is worth...
CRFun , that is your departement....
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Pillar of the Community
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what I am wondering is this:
This coin has a MS 64 grade..?
Is there a different grading criteria for these coins?
MS 64? wowwwww
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Pillar of the Community
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If the strike and coin state is such that it merits the grade then why not? M664 isn't a hard number to hit from a roll of coins in that era.
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Bedrock of the Community
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in the US Business strike coins are MS. It being MS-64 just means it never circulated and is as was struck by the mint at the time it left the mint. the grade of 64 just means it has hits from either handling or being hit by other coins in the hopper at the mint. It seems the way foreign coins (especially Canadian coins) are graded it confuses allot of Canadians when they see how US TPG's grade coins. MS just means it wasn't minted with any special prepared dies and if it were on a normal planchet would be like any other coin that was meant to circulate in regular pocket change at the time of the coin being minted |
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Is there a different grading criteria for these coins?
Technically, yes there is. The Canadian dime planchet is ~50% lighter than a cent planchet of that era so the usage of a much smaller planchet will produce a very weak strike because there is just not enough metal to fully fill all of the recesses of the dies during striking. |
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Posted 04/22/2010 4:29 pm
