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 I never would, but obviously there are some on ebay that are willing to pay it (  To each his own etc, etc,etc! |
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Can't fault the seller, though - he made it clear.
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I agree with SsuperDdave the seller was honest and the coin has some eye appeal but $55 is "a bit" too high.
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As in all things, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and those willing to pay for it. I hope the auction winner will be very happy with this coin.
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I should see about dolling up some of the more extreme examples of Machine Doubling I have in my collection and put them up on ebay. Yeesh! Free money. :-) |
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Extreme Machine Doubling has become quite collectible over the past couple of years. The real extreme cases are rarer than you might think. |
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Hearing that MD coins are now selling kind of sucks because I have thrown a bunch back because of all the people that were going around shunning people that tried to sell them. I still think the buyers are just not in the know of what a real error is. It took me several years to understand some of this stuff and I still don't know 85% of what can be learned and who knows what will change in the next 10-20-30 years, etc...
This coin in question in the OP is quite interesting but I wouldn't buy it with what I know about true double dies. I am wondering if there is not something else that stood out to the buyer and other bidders like a difference in design somewhere on the coin that I don't know anything about because I have not studied them. The A on the reverse in states looks interesting.
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The coin is normal. It is just machine "tripled." Many do not understand, Machine Doubling is NOT a variety. It IS an error. It is a minting error that happens during the ejection process. This is why it is sometimes referred to as "ejection doubling." By definition, errors are unique. This means no two are "exactly" the same. But they tend to be lumped together when looking at the big picture. There are many more machine doubled 1972 Lincoln cents than there are of the Doubled Die #1, but each one of those machine doubled 72's are unique. I believe that as that knowledge about Machine Doubling is spreading, the more widely they are becoming collectible. All of this is about machine "doubling." Now machine "tripling," let's just say this is only the second one I have ever seen in 35 years of collecting. |
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I think that is a cool coin and if I found it I would keep it. I have never seen a Machine Tripled coin. With that being said...I would never pay 63 bucks for it....I might pay a dollar
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-- I would love to find something like that and I might buy something like that, but I wouldn't spend much on it. |
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