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Rest in Peace
United States
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Nice find, never seen anything quite like it. Almost looks deliberate.  , look how those crack lines go all the way down to the denticles .  |
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Rest in Peace
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Great reference David! It may just be what was said, someone tried prying this V nick open.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Note the area is a different color. Not a damaged coin. It a lamination issue.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Great reference David! It may just be what was said, someone tried prying this V nick open. The Lamination reminds me of a can lid pried off with a can opener. It is one of the best Laminations I've ever seen on a older coin! Congratulations on finding this one. The bigger the Lamination is, the more desire there is.  Errers and Varietys.
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
A submission eligible coin. Be sure to have great edge photos before submitting if you do.
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Valued Member
 United States
258 Posts |
Heres the problem before I send it out I'm trying to figure out is it a $100 to $300 coin or is it a $500+ coin because if its a 100 to 300 it goes to ANACS if its $500+ it goes to NGC so trying to figure it out
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Moderator
 United States
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The feature quantifying this coin is TPG-independent. The people who want this coin don't care much about TPG's, or the strict grade. I am concerned by the "strip"-like look of the laminated area, thinking it might be a struck-through element which adhered to the coin rather than falling away, but if that's true the value of the piece would not be affected or even possibly improved. It's large enough so if my theory were true, the weight of the coin would be noticeably greater than "normal," so you could measure that. The rise of the lamination sure looks deliberate, like someone pryed it, and that would negatively affect the value. This one needs an opinion from Diamond or Weinberg. |
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Valued Member
United States
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just weighed it its exactly 5 g
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Moderator
United States
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OK, the weight is appropriate, and had something external been struck into the coin it would have been a few tenths (or more) heavy. Next logical conclusion is that something became laminated to the original strip from which the planchets were punched, leading to a normal weight planchet with a "stripe." It has acquired patina differently than the rest of the coin, leading me to wonder if it's of the same composition. I have to wonder what an XRF analyzer would think of it.  |
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