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Does This 1958 D Franklin Half Have An Error?

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 Posted 02/23/2014  8:17 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add azure31 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi everyone,

I was searching around the internet (and this forum) and was unable to find the answer to this. I just joined here hoping that you would be able to help. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide.

I have had this 1958 D Franklin half dollar since I was a little kid and haven't seen anything like this on a coin. To me, it kind of looks like it was struck with too much pressure.

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See how the edge of the coin continues out past the face? (Apologies for the shadowing, but I could not find a way to get a good angle without the edge blocking the light from one direction.)

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It's the same thing with both sides of the coin.

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Some of the wording appears to follow the curve up around the edges.

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Comparison next to another Franklin half that I own.

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Another comparison shot. See how the edge of this coin extends almost double the size? Also, it is completely smooth. No ridges whatsoever.

So the big questions from me are:

1) What could cause this? Is it something to do with the actual minting process? Could it just have got crushed somehow post-mint? (Seems pretty uniform around the edges though, and the middle of the coin shows no signs of strain from being crushed. It would have to be some type of machine that closed in evenly around the edge such that it didn't distort the shape of the coin.)

2) If this is actually a mint error, has anyone heard of others like this for Franklin halves? What do you even call this? I was unable to find anything online about it.

3) Is it worth any more/less than any other 1958 D that doesn't show these defect? Is it enough of a difference to submit it to PCGS or something?

Look forward to any responses here. Once again, thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers
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 Posted 02/23/2014  8:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add macmercury to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It has all signs of the characteristic of a Dryer Coin.
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 Posted 02/23/2014  8:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bobby131313 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yep, that or someone started spooning it to make a ring. Here's my Franklin ring....

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 Posted 02/23/2014  8:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add azure31 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the quick responses guys. I wish I had heard of a Dryer Coin before. That would have saved me a lot of time as a search term.

...and that ring looks awesome. I may consider doing that to this one since I can consider the coin damaged and not a mistake.
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 Posted 02/23/2014  8:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nickelsearcher to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to the ccf

Your coin is not an error or valuable variety ...

Likely one of the two suggestion posted above ... commercial dryer or man-made spooning.

Thanks for the great photos in your 1st post ... hopeful you stay awhile.

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They call this spooning on the rim. They would take a table spoon and tap the rim and keep turning to round the edge. Later they would drill a hole and would make a ring out of it. Then you have a silver ring like Bobby's or just plain if you keep rounding it. Looks like it was a project that never got completed.
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 Posted 02/23/2014  11:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add duncanbishop24 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Definitely looked like a coin about to be made into a ring. I thought that as soon as I saw it. Pretty neat. Bobby, where did you come across yours? Or did you make it yourself?
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Here's a coin being made into a ring...

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 Posted 02/24/2014  11:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dar to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Very cool video.

Now I'm gonna have to try it.

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