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Well, I just figured out how to get some much higher resolution scans out of my POS scanner, so I can finally post some of the finer detail coins I've got lying around! This '68 penny has what looks like a shelf on the left edge of the obverse, Most obvious right arround the "L" in liberty. It's definitely a different layer of metal, and a close look doesn't seem to imply PMD... Opinions?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Its just a slightly misaligned die strike. Very common and has no premium.
Thanks,
Bill
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United States
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Bill,
As a kid, I once got really excited by these "double rim" coins, because I had bought a book on errors which had common misaligned dies extremely overvalued. They pushed up my hopes--and I'm sure many others--until my own common sense brought me back to earth. For years afterward, I wouldn't pay the slightest attention to die varieties or errors...I probably missed something good.
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United States
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you can scores of these in any given box of nickels, dimes are notorious for them to.
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 United States
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you can scores of these in any given box of nickels, dimes are notorious for them to. Yeah, that's what I thought, I found a dime with the same oddity in the same drawer of change, so I figured it was something common. But, was curious about it none the less. |
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United States
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I don't see a misalignment. Instead it looks like a modest case of "finning". This is caused by excessive striking pressure or a slight bit of die tilt. For otherwise normal coins, a "double rim" can reflect 1) a misaligned die, 2) finning, 3) collar clash. There can combinations of these factors as well.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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United States
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I had bought a book on errors which had common misaligned dies extremely overvalued. Would that have been the infamous Frank Spadone book? |
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Biokemist,
I was gonna ask the same question. While that book put many of us on the trail of die varieties and errors, much of it was based upon what Frank wanted to sell:-) The pricing in it was very arbitrary. He was in to selling little die chips and minor die clashes which is why today we have such a hard time getting people to believe that they have little or no value.
Thanks,
Bill
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Would that have been the infamous Frank Spadone book?  I found a title to that name: "Major Variety and Oddity Guide of United States coins". "Oddity" sounds familiar, in more ways than one. That could have been it...it was tossed years ago. |
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Posted 09/11/2008 01:01 am
