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As many of you know, I collect error and variety coins almost exclusively. While this 1938-D Jefferson is a nice First-Year Issue coin, I can't seem to find anything that sets it apart. I also have no idea of when, in my 50 years of collecting, I put it in a 2x2 and set it aside. Do you see any error or variety here? I may have bought this coin thinking the lines under the Monticello between the letters N T I C E were interesting. What would have caused these? Are they simply roller lines?  Help me kickstart my brain here. I must have slept too many times after I acquired this. What is it?  Click the picture for a larger image ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!! 
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I agree....not seeing anything relating to a variety or an error that jumps out at me here. Could have been those lines you mentioned under the Monticello building....maybe you just wanted a nice type Jefferson!  -CH27 Collector of U.S. Coins, Varieties, and Colonial Coinage
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The LIB in Liberty seems weird .  Edited by T-BOP
07/04/2021 08:08 am
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It is a nice example.
Maybe the raised horizontal lines between NTI (MONTICELLO) or lack of details between the columns on each side of the main door under the gable roof?
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07/04/2021 11:20 am
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Looks pretty normal to me. |
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Does look pretty normal to me. The only thing not mentioned so far that I see is the tiny die crack between the first two letters of GOD.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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maybe of the nice condition?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice coin. Perhaps those lines are a reflection of Monticello's steps--in the water after the sprinklers ran one night.
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Pillar of the Community
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on the reverse there's some blobbiness, die chip?, above the second window from the left
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Pillar of the Community
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small die chip on the right porch in the 3rd section?
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At first I thought of a serif on the S in TRUST but that would be more special if you had one in the lower left end of the S. This looks normal to me with some not too bad scuffs or hits.
It's a better date, I would have saved it too without any other reason than it is a definite "keeper".
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07/04/2021 11:16 am
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Yoko, very nice coin.
If we look STATES OF then IVE CENTS than TICE and E PLURIBU, (E it is the most strange), and then the other side: I see like MD, but for this year I will say the Hammer and Anvil move during the strike in the opposite directions, Could be just the angle of the light.
The lines you talk about seem to be die polish.
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It being in a very high grade?
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ijn1944 said... Quote:
Nice coin. Perhaps those lines are a reflection of Monticello's steps--in the water after the sprinklers ran one night.  Thanks to everyone for the replies! I don't know how or where I got this coin. Even the images above are more than 10 years old. I think it's safe to add the coin to my non-error/variety collection. Thanks for all of the suggested flaws and possible errors. I didn't see a lot of the things that other members did. One last question, do you think it would straight grade with the scuffs and scratches? What grade do you think the coin would get? (No, I'm not sending this one for certification.) ANA ID: 3203813 - CONECA ID: N-5637 Clean a coin that may be worth collecting? Please DON'T! When in doubt, leave it dirty!!
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Yoko, it is a very nice 1938. what TPG will say I do not knows. For me is over 62-63. Scratches over the time affect modern coins in grading and your coin do has to many or majors one. Overall it is a desired coin in the collections. It is a 83 years old coin in perfect condition. And I think the scratches come direct from the mint. Look of the Mint handle the coins over the years and you will understand me. |
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Posted 07/04/2021 07:43 am
