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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I believe it's was struck by a capped die
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Valued Member
United States
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Out of curiosity could you post a close up of the date area and the FG? 1973D by chance? EDIT: nvm the reverse dowsn't look like 1973 at first I thought I saw the large FG. I hoped it was the unlikely coincidence that you had an earlier state capped die that led to mine.  And Grats, that is very cool! Where'd you find it? Edited by rdlem
10/23/2014 5:50 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Big time congrats, Raymo52, a great find! Wow!  Edited by Sudz
10/23/2014 5:44 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Korea, Republic Of
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Wow, this is indeed an amazing error. Did you find it in circulation?
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Moderator
 United States
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Very cool find, John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I found this one on ebay and made an offer on it. I was surprised they accepted. Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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New Member
United States
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I have one similar to your coin. Both coins are late stage brockages. I have often wondered if the raised line from 11 o'clock south to near center of the coin is from a large die crack.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Looks more like a crease line on the die cap cent stuck to the die?
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New Member
United States
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coop, you are probably correct.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Kinda like these creases...  Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The creases are from the capped planchet wearing down and flattening more with each strike. Eventually it falls off the die and normal coins are struck again.  Sometimes it rotates and makes a different look of the capped die strikes:  Sometimes more planchets are bonded together and make something that looks even different:   |
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New Member
United States
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@52Raymo "Kinda like these creases..." Yes, but I believe the circular "crease" on your coin was caused by an indent of a blank planchet early on in the striking of the cap, such as this:  I also believe your second coin is a very late stage counter-brockage. At one time I had over 300 capped-die-strikes in my collection, sold most to another new "addict" to this type of Lincoln Cent error in the mid 90's, and only kept a few dozen for myself. I don't have a photo program that allows arrows to indicate pointers as to whether the capped-die-strikes are brockages or counter-brockages. I argued my points with Arnold Margolis back in the day, and if you knew Arnie, he always won. :-) I would like to figure out how to show the differences here in this forum for critique from all, but I don't have some of the computer-program tools to do it. I'll work on it. G'Day! Jim |
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United States
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As an aside, I am frustrated that I cannot edit, reply with quote from a previous poster, and cannot cut-and-paste other posters' images. Sigh...
Jim
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Capped dies/brockages and Cuds are weaknesses of mine...😜 Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Posted 10/23/2014 5:37 pm
