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Pillar of the Community
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Russian Federation
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Given that they're 2017, the odds aren't that ridiculous - those coins just never really had time to separate (much) since leaving the mint. Still cool, but not crazy.
(Besides, it's not like a typical die makes very few coins - IIRC it's estimated that only several thousand dies are involved in the entire production of a single denomination on a modern US mint in a year.)
But that's a lot of die scratches, anyway.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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They look to have been struck with the same die pair. It's pretty cool to get twin errors like that.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Yea I'll hold onto them just because they're interesting.
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Several times I have opened original rolls from a box where the rolls were all the same date. I was looking for die varieties and paying attention to the die pairs. The rolls that I looked at only had around four or five die pairs total. I am not sure if this is normal but it would not be too surprising to find two from the same die pair if the vendor is using new rolls. Some rolls would have a single coin from a different die pair that did not match any other though. I guess it would depend upon how many machines the mint was running to fill up one of their large size bags.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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They were together when they left the Mint, and they have been together ever since that time.
I have frequently seen whole handfuls of freshly issued coins in a checkout till, all of the same date.
Issued by the mint on demand by the retail banking sector, and set into circulation by them.
Same thing applies to consecutively numbered notes.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I thought the guy gave me three and found one in my car seat this morning it's the same die as well!
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United States
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the good thing about it is that the .10 will remain for years to come....
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 United States
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Neat sequence of dimes to have!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks for sharing. Cool finds! I would have thought that even though they are minted by the same dies that they would then all be collected in larger quantities to be rolled with lots of other dimes from other dies. How quickly are coins rolled after they are struck? Does this happen often that "twins or triplets" make it out into the world together?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yea I thought that too. Maybe they had a whole roll of them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You have what's known as a Mated Pair. Many different dies were used for each denomination each year. To find an error from the same die is pretty neat. The nicer the error, the nicer the find.
Edited by CoinMasters
05/31/2017 01:42 am
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United States
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One thing I've found with the dimes is that they are the holder of the majority of die chips. It's almost unheard of to find one without. Just my 2 cents!
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