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NGC - NGC has graded its first 2015-W American Liberty High Relief $100 mint error, and it's a major one. An NGC grader identified a 2015-W American Liberty High Relief $100 with a "medallic alignment" mint error, which is caused when one die is rotated 180 degrees. Coins are normally struck so that both sides are properly oriented if the coin is flipped from top to bottom on a horizontal axis. A medallic alignment means that coins must be turned along a vertical axis for the obverse and reverse to be right side up. While large rotations are relatively common on early United States coinage, modern United States coins with medallic alignments are exceptionally rare. One well-known example is the 1989-D Congress Bicentennial Silver Dollar, of which approximately 200 specimens with medallic alignments are believed to exist, and a small number of 2007 Presidential dollars are known with medallic alignment. This is the first rotated American Liberty High Relief $100 that NGC has seen, but it more likely exists as the dies for these coins were expected to strike around 500 pieces per die pair on average. However, the number of examples with medallic alignment could be small if the error was caught early by the US Mint. The coin is graded NGC MS 70. Read More: Error Highlight Series
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Pillar of the Community
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Now I have to go check ALL of my 2015 $100 coins...
That would be a nice coin to have bought!
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How does something like this leave the mint? This isn't like circ quarters that fly into a bin at 50 per second. You'd think they'd have some sort of QC step after setup. Could they be doing this intentionally to stir up hype?
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Is it me or does lady liberty on the obverse look like a crazy cat lady? I just am not a fan of how these turned out.
I was going to purchase the HH of 50 but I suppose I will just put that 75k back under my mattress.
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I think this error is easier to be passed through a careless QC inspection than other more obvious 'defect' error.
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I think alignment errors are the hardest to remember to check for. I am not surprised this kind of thing can get through the mint.
And I still think from a distance she looks like Medusa.
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What an ugly obverse design. Ugh!  Edited by DeodatusAlp2002
08/17/2015 3:58 pm
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I like the obverse design, especially in the context of modern coinage.
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I agree with jbuck, but I do think the hair could use some improvement. At first look I definitely see the Medusa resemblance. I like the simplicity and symbolism of it though.
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Is it me or does lady liberty on the obverse look like a crazy cat lady? I just am not a fan of how these turned out. No, it's not just you. I think her face looked decent on the larger drawings, but it looks way too bony on the coin. Quote:
but it's likely that more exist as the dies for these coins were expected to strike around 500 pieces per die pair on average. Based on all the die polishing lines on the one I purchased, I'm not buying this statement at all. I'm thinking the real number of coins struck per die pair is in the thousands. I've purchased bullion gold coins from all over the world and have never seen one with polishing marks that are easily visible to the naked eye like my $100 gold coin has. In fact, I can honestly say that I've never seen a modern coin with so much die polishing evident. I'm going to a big coin show tomorrow and will look at some more of these to see if they're similar. BTW, I'm not trying to get on a bash the mint tirade here, but I think some here are making too many assumptions when it comes to QC at the mint. Based on the coins that I've purchased directly from the mint over the past couple of years, I honestly believe that they have no final QC inspection. Problems that are easily evident to the naked eye should not ever get to the customer. It has reached the point with proof sets that I just order extra knowing that I'm going to have to send some back to get to the five that I want. Heck, an Eisenhower reverse proof that I just received has a 1/2 hair inside the capsule. I guess that's enough for now. I don't want to bring everybody down. |
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Sorry android is very touchy when pasting !
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I don't think I could warm up to these coins if we were all melted in the same crucible. For medallic alignment I prefer the 1839-O Quarter Eagle which sometimes shows that.
Far more interesting from a historical standpoint as well as artistically superior in every way to this modern bullion piece and available for roughly the same money.
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