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Pillar of the Community
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Valued Member
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Is it indented? Strike through error? Both are neat!
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Pillar of the Community
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barriecarson
No. It is not a hair.
Smallcentguy
It sticks up above the coin surface.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Decades ago, proof coins were quite scarce, and there was a large amount of labour input in their production. Each coin was individually struck by a press operator, and individually inspected. Less than 10,000 pere produced for a particular type.
These days, when proof coins are produced in their tens or hundreds of thosands, there has to be less individual care taken on each coin, and quality inspection on each coin must necessarily suffer, and errors on proof coins are more often seen.
Still, it is a sort of contradiction that an error should be seen on a proof coin.
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice finds.
No proof sets 'til '81.For '78 there is a Custom specimen set with two pennies,and a prestige set,also specimen strike,with two dollars,one silver and one nickel.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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DBM
My apologies. The 1978 is specimen. The 1990 is proof.
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Pillar of the Community
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Is it possible that the anomaly that looks like a piece of hair actually fused to the coin when it was struck? If I remember correctly...proof coins are struck under a much higher pressure then business and circulation strike coins. Just curious as it looks like a Struck through thread/hair except for the fact that it incused and not indented/recessed. Looks very cool though.
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Pillar of the Community
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Sooooo. Is this someone's hair actually embedded into the coin?
That is kind of grossing me out.
Is this common?
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Bedrock of the Community
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I don't think I've seen a clipped proof coin before.  |
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I don't think I've seen a clipped proof coin before ...and you still haven't. The clipped coin shown above is a specimen strike. We have seen examples of specimen clipped nickel dollars posted here before. https://goccf.com/t/120248A member of this forum, whom I know personally, has a beautiful 1972 clipped specimen silver dollar. I photographed the coin for him, perhaps he will let me post it... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
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Hello.
No one has really answered if this is a common occurance on these coins.
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Pillar of the Community
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I would say the clip is fairly scarce on specimen coins but the other error looks like it is a one of a kind unique hair error.
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Pillar of the Community
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enworb
Thanks for responding. Some of these minor things are interesting for me since I'm new. I know its not an exciting $3000 coin but it's still an oddity. I think :(
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...and you still haven't. The clipped coin shown above is a specimen strike. Sorry--I used the US term "proof"  |
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