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1921 Broadstrike Morgan

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 Posted 02/01/2007  5:02 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add bighuck1972 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
After looking around the net I have seen a refferance to a simular item. Let me know if this is a broadstrike or possible mint error. The edge is slanted and it looks like a imprint of a cloth was struck on the face.

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I appreciate all of the work on the pics and slide show,, but can we get pics of the whole obverse and reverse straight down on the coin ?

the marks that you refered to as being struck through material remind me more of old fingerprints ,, I could not tell about if the coin is broadstruck from the other pics .

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I see anything jumping out at me as an error on this coin,, but lets wait for Superdave to take a look,, He is our resident 1921 Morgan dollar collector !!

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In all honesty, this coin doesn't look a heck of a lot different than any of my 1921's - the "slant" you speak of, bigchuck, is present to a greater or lesser degree on all of them. The rim seems even all around the coin; this would indicate that the collar was in place when it was struck, so a broadstrike or partial collar strike is out of the question. However, the pictures aren't clear enough to make me absolutely sure that the collar was perfectly fitted around the coin when it was struck; if the "slant" isn't even all the way around, it could have been the result of a discrepancy in the strike of some sort. Unfortunately, not an important-enough discrepancy to change the value of the coin.

The cloth imprint comes from exactly what the coin is doing in your pictures: sitting on cloth. Had it been struck through cloth, individual threads would have been impressed into the surface of the coin, and the surface would have actual indentations from it.
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Looking at a pile of these in front of me none of them look like this. Looking at quite a few on e-bay none of them look like this. The edge of the coin is slanted not worn off so it looks like a mint error. Broadstrike maybe not, unusual mint error, ya.
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It's a normal Morgan dollar - no error.

A broadstruck coin is struck out of collar. With reeded edge coins, this would mean that not only would the coin have to be larged in diameter than a normal coin, but it also wouldn't have any reeding since this part of the coin is provided by the collar. Since this coin has reeding, it had to be struck in-collar, thus is not a broadstrike.
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