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Mexican Error Off Center And More

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 Posted 10/17/2008  03:41 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Metalman to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have been waiting for a place to post this coin .

It is struck off center , but what I'm wondering about is the split in the plachet running from the bottom about 1/3 of the way through the coin Is this common or is it not so common ?

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 Posted 10/18/2008  01:03 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add livingdinasaur to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
metalman, you will see this anomily on a lot of the older coinage. I think it is, or was an alloy issue. I had some off-center, and several cracks in a bag of coins, (100 pesos, 1986),
for change in the grocery store we had in Los Mochis, Sin. Mex. I have several othe denominations with the same problem. One actually split apart.
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 Posted 10/18/2008  4:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Metalman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the info Livingdinosaur

Its a cool coin at any rate , of course I was hoping that it was more of a rarity ,but it will stay in my collection because its the only one I have !
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 Posted 10/20/2008  4:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TreasHunt to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice piece, but it looks more like a mis-aligned die.
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 Posted 10/25/2008  4:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Metalman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Teasure since both obverse and reverse are off ,its more than likely struck off center .

if just one of the sides was off that would be a strong indication of a die alignment error .

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 Posted 10/27/2008  09:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TreasHunt to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
metal man:
Okay, I'll give.

Howeever, a nice planchet crack, and not too common.
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 Posted 11/18/2008  2:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add KurtS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I also like how you can see a different style of "8" for the last digit in the date--it's a wider punch.
This suggests the last digit was added somewhere in the die process for this year.
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