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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Can anyone tell me what happened here?   |
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Pillar of the Community
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It's only the slightest off-centre on the reverse, whereas the obverse is significantly off-centre.
The reverse is also missing beads between 8:00 and 2:00.
The obverse and reverse were not struck at the same angle.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That is an extreme misaligned die. I really like this one! Modern coin errors are rare and this is a nice example. Just like a Cud, there is no design on the opposite side of the error because there is no pressure to strike up any design. Great coin! |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Just out of curiousity, is it magnetic or non magnetic?
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Pillar of the Community
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222 - thanks for the explanation. That makes total sense, and even though I'm not an error collector, I'm surprised I didn't consider that. I've never seen a "significant" misaligned die error before, have you ever seen one comparable to this?
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United States
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I'm not really sure about canadian coins, but I've seen a few on US coins. Common ones to see are 1966 cents, 1983 nickels and Virginia State Quarters to list a few. There are many others too. |
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Common on Canadian 1-cent coins up to 1981. After 1981, I have found that errors like that are quite scarce. Nice error, thanks for sharing!!
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United States
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If you decide you wanna sell it or trade let me know I love Canadian cents
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Canada
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"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
Edited by SPP-Ottawa
07/07/2012 12:14 pm
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SPP - I am not expecting to get that price one bit! I have no idea what it's worth. Some dealers, who couldn't tell me how the coin got struck that way, have told me anywhere from $50 to hundreds. One dealer said that strange errors like this could be worth over a thousand to the right buyer.
I'm not an error collector, but it doesn't matter to me if it gets sold. I figured I'd test the waters, and see if I can get $500 (or maybe higher).
$2750 is not what I think the coin is worth. If I wanted to buy this coin myself, I'd probably only pay $50 - $75, but I'm guessing error collectors would pay more. I was just looking for offers, so I set the asking price as something I didn't think anyone would buy it for.
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"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
Edited by SPP-Ottawa
07/07/2012 2:53 pm
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Canada
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Why not start it at a reasonable price and let the bidding take hold .
I attended coin shows quite regularly for years , a dealer found a 25 cent error in a new roll of quarters . Now the cost of his error was only 25 cents . He priced the error at the time for $500 . I offer $300 for it after a couple of shows as the $500 was a bit overpriced . He turned me down which was his right , thinking he could get the $500 . Fast forward year after year and the error literally sat in his display , each time I saw it he would tell me he was mad it wouldn't sell . Eventually it sold for $200 . Makes no sense to me - in his logic
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Posted 07/04/2012 11:09 pm
