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It's fun making those rediscoveries isn't it!  Happy Easter!  |
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It is nice to find lost treasures!
Good story; About three years ago, my wife was going through her jewelry box and found a coin she had gotten from a rental she had from March of 1997. Apparently it was one of those bad deals with a tenant, where she had to clean up the mess. She handed me the coin pretty casually, saying "Here's a coin for your collection." It ended up being an Saint-Gaudens American Eagle gold $5! I was with her for 7 years at that time and had no idea she had it!
Happy Easter everyone!
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WOW! Jaymen74:  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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always a fun thing to find coins that you forgot you had!
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Rest in Peace
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The "strike-thru" looks like letters to me:   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Yeah they are letters but cant make out what it says.
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Bedrock of the Community
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The nickel is a lamination issue.
The Oklahoma quarter is die chip.
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Youre probably right about the Quarter but the nickel I'm sorry but its not a lamination. It would either fall into the category of a struck through or counterstamp. Lamination doesn't make letters.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Coop Id agree with you on the lamination issue because lamination is very common on nickels but when I personally observed this coin I could make out two letter Ms and two Es and a S. When I put a question mark beside struck through I wasnt sure if this was some kind of counterstamped or struck through. Just trust me when I say its not a lamination. The quarter I wasnt sure for sure if it was a DDR or not. The things that pass for a Double die nowadays is a little ridiculous lately when most of them are probably die breaks, chips and etc... |
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You are pulling a Rorschach, there are no letters there but it is human nature to try and pull a pattern out of randomness. It is a lamination because it runs parallel to the grain of the metal which can be seen in some of the other darker streaks on the coin. Quote:
The things that pass for a Double die nowadays is a little ridiculous lately when most of them are probably die breaks, chips and etc... That is entirely due to modern die production and the single squeeze hubbing process. You will never see a massive spread doubled die on a US coin ever again as long as the hubs only get a single impression. Now, the doubling is primarily confined to the center of a coin with little spread- it is what it is. The vast majority of die variety specialists are not so careless as to classify die chips as legitimate doubled dies. Edited by biokemist6
04/25/2011 6:06 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Ok Ill go with that then.
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I cant help it I'm a little more creative minded  . I never was good at ink blot test  . |
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