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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Neat!
What do you think the closing will be?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Looks like a few people want it real bad.It's already a hundred bucks more than I thought it would go for
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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WOW! Is that really worth more than $200?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I've seen die clashes from dies that far misaligned but a coin struck with dies that far off is neat.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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It looks to me a broadstruck off center to me. On a MAD the reverse would be normal.
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Valued Member
United States
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The reverse is normal just weak on the area where the obverse die wasn't there to provide the resistance to strike up the design.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ya, seems to me like the planchet was never positioned
properly in the chamber in the first place. Not a matter of the die/die's being out of whack. Could this be struck out of collar ?
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Valued Member
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Ya, seems to me like the planchet was never positioned
properly in the chamber in the first place. Not a matter of the die/die's being out of whack. Could this be struck out of collar ? Is the link taking you and Coop to a different coin then it is taking me? The coin I see is a miss-aligned die. The left edge of the reverse design is at the left edge of the coin where it is supposed to be. A good portion of the left edge of the obverse design is not on the coin. It is just weakly struck on the right side of the reverse like a coin with a large Cuds looks. But who knows I may be wrong I am no expert. |
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Pillar of the Community
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I'm not an expert either but I'm inclined to agree with you jorgy.The reverse is pretty much centered maybe off less than 3% while the obverse is off center at least 20%.The only way to get that difference is the dies being Misaligned.there's really no other explanation.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am in agreement with Jorgy here. This is a misaligned die strike, but I cannot be completely certain it's a 'genuine' example. Something to me just doesn't look quite right with it, but since I do not study errors in-depth, it could just be my ignorance of the subject coming out here. Mike Diamond would be the best person around here to give educated insight.
I can say, however, that even if this coin is genuine, I think bidding fever overtook common sense on this one. I don't see its value being anywhere near the closing bid amount.
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Pillar of the Community
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It's a genuine misaligned die error. Horizontal misalignments of up to 50% are known among recent coins. I have a 2000-D cent with a horizontal misalignment of about 40%. To get a misalignment this large, the entire die assembly would have to move sideways. Even for an error this unusual, the final price was surprisingly high.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice example but I would have maxed out my bid at $ 200 tops.
I believe auction fever took over in this instance.
mdpmedia
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