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Liberty V Nickel 1888 Fake Mint Error?

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 Posted 05/22/2012  5:31 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add donkrx to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Just saw this while browsing ebay, can someone give me some insight on what this might be? Looks fake to me, but just wanted to be sure because I haven't seen anything like this before.

The seller did not proclaim it was a legitimate mint error - he marked it "die error?".

Liberty-V-Nickel-1888-Fake-Mint-Error?

On this note, what would you guys say is the rarest legitimate mint error? Would it the very off center, broad struck coins? (I have no clue I'm just taking a guess)
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 Posted 05/22/2012  7:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add rachums107 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
die chip, common error. no premium
rarest error? one coin struck on another
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 Posted 05/22/2012  7:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add donkrx to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Ah I see... just didn't look quite right to me, ill have to go look at some examples. Even if I'm new to this, its funny how I've seen lots of X over Y dates and DDO's and not this yet.

But yeah die chips I can see being very common.
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 Posted 05/23/2012  11:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Rarest error? Possible a mule. And possible the most unusual of mules would be where not only are the dies mismatched but they are for different countries. (And yes they do exist. Oddly enough one of the two country mules is probably also the most common mules. Common enough that one of the Australian grading services used it in their sample slab. Of course that slab was only given to dealers not the general public.)
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Perhaps it's only a die chip, but shape is rather interesting as it's similar to the top of the "1".
The cleanly angled contours almost look like the top of a repunched digit. I know that on IHC dies, it's believed they tested die hardness by impressing digits at the edge of the bust and denticles. This one's a bit more dramatic than documented MPDs. Perhaps it began as a repunched "1" and then a die chip made the impression deeper.
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