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*** Edited by Staff to Add Year / Mintmark / Denomination to Title. Titles are Important! ***Got a roll of 1988D's, BU's so first thing looked at was the RDV's....Nope. Then went to look for the few minor DDO's....nope. Finally went looking for RPM's. Payday! Found 6, all alike, this is one:  And its a direct match, even for the, ah, oh oh, anomaly at the upper serif, that matches this listing! Whoopee!  Think again: Quote:
DE-LISTED. It has been determined that the anomaly is the result of a defective mintmark punch, and is not an RPM. These pics will stay for a while for educational purposes only Coulda sworn that lower bar was rotated, but look carefully at the bar, see how halfway down on my closeup pix begins to thin out and bend....Darn! Another roll with nothing but nice coins. And I even looked for some cracks and cruds...NADA! Think I'm gonna get another JOB!
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That's not the same. The mint mark position is not even close.
Your coin does look like an RPM, maybe an unlisted one.
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Hmmm. Missed that, with all my diagrams too. So the bad punch got used for an RPM? Guess I need to redo...
Edited by Crazyb0
01/19/2018 8:45 pm
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I'm not really sure what is going on. The coppercoins image is hard to see the extent of the damage to the punch. Your coins looks like it shows a bigger area away from the original D.  |
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I actually may have a match for that one, have six I need to scope out that may not be the same now that I will locate mm's. Think CC is referencing the upper serif portion as the anomaly.
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01/19/2018 8:53 pm
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On an overlay of the two mint marks, parts of it appear to be a match, while the lower portion doesn't.
It may be the same punch, it could have been worked some to correct the problem and your coin is showing an earlier version of it.
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That's not the same. The mint mark position is not even close. When I posted this, I had forgot to make sure my brain was turned on.  I was looking at the position of the mint mark compared to the date. Then it hit me, it's the punch, so it wouldn't matter where the mint mark was.  |
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One of Coop's images showing the damaged punch:  |
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Edited by Crazyb0
01/19/2018 9:57 pm
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That's a bummer! I was routing for ya!  |
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That is exceptional that you found and recognized so many different dies that used the same punch. You should hang on to those in a set. If you don't want them, send me an email, I may be interested.
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