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Forum Dad
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Note how bold the actual T is since the goop fell out and the adjacent letters are obviously still filled.  Image by Ken Potter |
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Pillar of the Community
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Quite nice!  |
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Valued Member
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Pillar of the Community
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Did you find that searching Bobby or just come across it looking online since it says image by ken potter? Its a cool find and a plus its on the 2005 which has a one year design. The Dropped Letter is a relatively scarce error with its origins in the common Filled Die or Grease Filled Die errors. As a result of the increase in filled die errors occurring, the scarcer, more desirable dropped letter errors have become more commonplace in the last decade though they certainly could not be referred to as "common." In spite of the increased supply, it has always been a popular error type that continues to be eagerly snapped up by collectors and one that I really like so thanks for sharing. For others: When debris, (often referred to by error collectors as "grease"), clog a die, it may after a few strikes, become compressed within cavities of the die such as numerals, letters or even areas of design. Even after the offending material has been dispersed from the field of the die through the striking of coins, it may remain intact within these recesses. Later the offending material falls out intact, like Jello from a mold, and becomes struck by the obverse die into the next coin. The result can be a perfectly shaped incuse letter struck into the coin with a bit of the offending material still retained sometimes. These type of errors are always sought after and carry a premium even as they are found more commonly than the past which is a good thing for coin searchers. https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/200...0151-91499.sEdited by datadragon
03/25/2023 4:33 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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T for Tom! ça va bien aller
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Bedrock of the Community
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That's quite remarkable! |
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Pillar of the Community
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That is a nice one! Thanks for sharing this.
"Pride is yoked with callous behavior, as humility is with compassion." St. Gregory Palamas Top Finds - 1976 D WQ DDO-001 http://goccf.com/t/382777 - 1968 D 1c DDR-001 http://goccf.com/t/422254Cool clashed dies - 1972 D 1c http://goccf.com/t/429855&SearchTerms=CCLStruck-In Rim Burr - 1969 S 1c http://goccf.com/t/425587&SearchTerms=burr |
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Pillar of the Community
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Yeah, that's a super cool example what with it right beside the letter it dropped from and all the others still plugged up. Hard to find a more demonstrative example than that one.
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Forum Dad
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Did you find that searching Bobby or just come across it looking online since it says image by ken potter? Its a cool find and a plus its on the 2005 which has a one year design. Ken posted it on FB and said I could post it here.
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Bedrock of the Community
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That is one of the most outstanding dropped letter errors I may have seen. Thanks for posting it up for us Bobby
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Forum Dad
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes very cool coin! It seems crazy to me that this coin and basically any other dropped letter coin is worth several hundred dollars.
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Pillar of the Community
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Yes very cool coin! It seems crazy to me that this coin and basically any other dropped letter coin is worth several hundred dollars. I never found error coins to be really too 'crazy' with their values as some can be unique or at least far less available than the number of people who may collect error coins and want one pushing up the prices. What always got me was Stewart Blay's 1958 Lincoln Cent Doubled Die Obverse PCGS MS-65 RD CAC sold for $1,136,250 with juice. Thats a single CENT. https://www.greatcollections.com/Co...r-Collection People also pay strange high prices for lowball condition coins due to being in registry sets. Its not unique to coins, the other day I found a super mario 64 video game that isn't even very old but sealed sold for 1.56 million. https://slate.com/technology/2021/0...o-games.html And a CGC-certified Nintendo Power #1 Realizes $24,000 in Heritage Sale...thats a magazine about video games https://www.cgcvideogames.com/news-...-first-issueOh wait theres a emoticon for that 
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03/26/2023 9:35 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Clean up aisle 5. wow, huge clean-up, what did I miss? (wait - never mind)
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Bedrock of the Community
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Fantastic error coin - the best I've ever seen. Quote:
Clean up aisle 5. Thank you bobby and the mod dudes for responding to that irritant. Your support is what keeps the CCF the great forum that it is. Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.artToo many hobbies .... too much work .... not enough time. |
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Posted 03/25/2023 4:13 pm
