2016 P Harper's Ferry Quarter With "detail Erasing Die Wear" Ebay Purchase

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Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 74679 Posts	Posted 02/11/2019 10:20 pm Thank you very much Chase007! I had a feeling that you'd like it! Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10460 Posts	Posted 02/11/2019 11:19 pm The fields are the highest (and flattest) points on the die... even if the die was deteriorating, why are the deepest parts of the die (highest devices) also affected equally? I am hoping Mike (and maybe even Ken Potter) will weigh into this conversation... "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 Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 74679 Posts	Posted 02/11/2019 11:23 pm SPP-Ottawa, I'll contact Mike Diamond for you. Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
koinpro Pillar of the Community United States 1781 Posts	Posted 02/12/2019 02:43 am What I see is a very extreme case of Die Deterioration. I coined the phrase Premature Die Deterioration Doubling back in the 1980s (my thoughts on it first published in Error-Variety News in the early 1980s) and in this case that very certainly could be the what happened to this coin. Since I was not standing there when the coin was minted, and there is only one coin to examine and that only being photographically, I have no real way to prove what happened beyond that. I'd say calling it extreme Die Deterioration would be enough. Needle picking it to a point further is well ... pointless. What we know for sure is that it is a form of Die Deterioration and that it could be premature (due to improper die hardening, etc). We can speculate all we what but research based on one coin alone isn't going to get us any closer to any finer details as to what happened. As an aside, I think the most extreme example of Die Deterioration I've seen was on a coin from Napal but I've also seen one that was very extreme on a US States Quarter and one on a Jefferson nickel. I personally do not assign any value to such a coin as DD is not widely accepted as a "collectable" with any particular value except on Early American coins where they are often collected by distinguishable die states. Nonetheless it is a very extreme example and I can see somebody wanting to pay a premium to get an example of this. I paid a premium (though small) for the Nepalese piece just to get it in for photography/educational use. Interesting coin! Edited by koinpro 02/12/2019 03:14 am Report this Post to the Staff
cookiemonster Pillar of the Community United States 1335 Posts	Posted 02/12/2019 06:38 am happy hunting Report this Post to the Staff
mikediamond Pillar of the Community United States 2738 Posts	Posted 02/12/2019 08:53 am It's not a normal case of Die Deterioration. I would classify it as a type of die deformation error. It could be due to improper die treatment (annealing, quenching, tempering, etc.) or a faulty piece of die steel. In such cases, anything goes. Error coin writer and researcher. Report this Post to the Staff
Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 74679 Posts	Posted 02/12/2019 10:16 am Thank you koinpro, cookiemontser, amd Mike Diamond for your comments! I appreciate your input. Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
Big-Kingdom Pillar of the Community United States 1667 Posts	Posted 07/23/2019 09:21 am So, it's a spender? LOL Report this Post to the Staff
Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 74679 Posts	Posted 07/23/2019 12:15 pm Big-Kingdom, not in my eyes. I bought it, because it's not your normal case of Die Deterioration. Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
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