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Posted 04/24/2018 5:08 pm
There are several posts in this thread that make me see why new error collectors are hesitant to post their finds and questions. At no time did I solicit anyone's opinion on how this error was made, and how it escaped the mint. As an advanced error collector and someone who has published on error coins, seeing everyone calling this one while wearing your Captain Obvious hat is pointless...
As an error collector, and with many off-metals in my collection, I simply wanted to point out something very rare, beautiful and cool... regardless of its intent and provenance...
Most people don't realize that lots of eye-popping errors are not even made in the mints - engineers take handfuls of planchets overseas (mainly Germany) when purchasing and testing new mint equipment and presses, and those "test strikes" while not true errors, do escape to the collector market. So they were never even in the mint to start with - let alone snuck out... (an unnamed engineer at the Royal Canadian Mint shared that anecdote with me)...
So yes, most of the wildest errors you see were not true accidents, but error collectors see this aspect of the hobby quite differently...
When an error coin can make an error collector say "wow"... then it is something special... like this one...
If I collected Ike dollar errors, this one would be my 'white whale'...
As an error collector, and with many off-metals in my collection, I simply wanted to point out something very rare, beautiful and cool... regardless of its intent and provenance...
Most people don't realize that lots of eye-popping errors are not even made in the mints - engineers take handfuls of planchets overseas (mainly Germany) when purchasing and testing new mint equipment and presses, and those "test strikes" while not true errors, do escape to the collector market. So they were never even in the mint to start with - let alone snuck out... (an unnamed engineer at the Royal Canadian Mint shared that anecdote with me)...
So yes, most of the wildest errors you see were not true accidents, but error collectors see this aspect of the hobby quite differently...
When an error coin can make an error collector say "wow"... then it is something special... like this one...
If I collected Ike dollar errors, this one would be my 'white whale'...
"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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