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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm sure most of you know what is missing on this dime-saw one buried in a rotisserie shelf over a year ago at a LCS and been wanting to get back there ever since and see if the guy had any wiggle room on the price-think I did well will depend on the grade I covered the price until I get some opinions lol-I especially love the story behind this one being how I live I the area now also....thanks for looking!   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 This one is new to me. Is it mising the P? |
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 United States
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Holy Toledo. Or, well, Sandusky.  Not one of the Sandusky coins, though, I think. Those are all supposed to have strong date-rim separation. Edit: Guess I should mention, this should have a mint mark. It's a known error. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Yea the weak strikes were dropped in the Pittsburgh area and that's one thing I'm not sure about the difference in the two strikes because I haven't seen enough of them
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United States
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The reason I know about this one is that I likely got some in change - I graduated high school in the area, and was back on leave that summer. I was definitely at Cedar Point in the summer of 1982.
The story has stuck with me because of that.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow that's cool and yea most of them I believe were dropped of directly at cedar point that summer-I also remember reading at some point that year a collector from Toledo caught wind of it and went on a massive scavenger hunt at all the banks and can't remember numbers but he got an awful lot of them,no idea if he's unloaded them or what not
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United States
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Well, Cedar Point was far and away the largest employer in a wide radius then, and a large enough park that they would be ordering huge batches of coin for change. No wonder they'd get most of the batch at once, especially when they all seemed to have gone to the Cleveland Fed.
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Pillar of the Community
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Doing some reading on this I found a story from pcgs that said this Toledo coin dealer had 1500 of these at the time and was also the owner of two significant 'strong strike' versions that had a die crack at about 1 o'clock on the obverse-so I took a look and believe I found that die crack on mine-they believe it's possible a mint employee turned the striking pressure up when he realized the error to get a better strike and this crack was caused by it. What do you think?   |
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United States
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Honestly, I wouldn't read that much into it. The die got blundered upstream and the press operator just threw it into the press and hit Go. It cracked. By the time an error die reaches the press nobody's really looking at it. They have to strike coins, not do upstream's QA job.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Dave,do any of the TPG's designate the 'strong strike' 'weak strike' varieties when they slab these do you know? |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Indeed they do differentiate between the 2 with the strong being most desirable of the 2 variants.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oh and this was the asking price-I walked out with it for 100$ I think if I can get an AU58 I'll have done ok-either way I'm a happy camper...  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Cool coin.
And love the Cedar Point mentions.... I was a regular visitor there from 1987-1989 when I lived in Cleveland.
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Valued Member
United States
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I am from that area as well. I sure wish I would have got some of those dimes. Friend got 13 rolls of them !
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's AWESOME! I live in cleveland too, :P
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That's cool. I graduated from Olmsted Falls.
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Posted 04/04/2015 6:10 pm
