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Valued Member
Canada
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I have a question about this off center strike. It's quite classic, but the folded metal is unusual. How can we explained that? I guess the coin jammed during the ejection. In the folded area we can also observed two small notches in that area on the observe. Thanks for your comments.   |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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It appears to have gotten stuck in something after being struck. I found a 1944 Wheat cent that was struck off center nearly as much many years ago roll searching. It has a large gash across the obverse and my theory is that some kid got it stuck in a Gumball Machine and it was damaged while being forcefully removed by a grocery store employee..  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Can't help on the technical side, but a nice find anyway!
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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I'm sure that SPP will chime in. Regardless how it happened, a neat coin!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Offcenter coins were often discovered when batches of coins were run through coin counting machines. The error coin could be slightly larger in diameter and also not quite flat. An out-of-spec coin would jam in a counting machine and would have to be pried out. I have had error coins with dents/folds and screwdriver marks.
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Moderator
 Canada
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 I have handled a number of really nice errors lately, with a huge scratch or gouge on them. I generally discount those heavily and get rid of them on my ebay store. Eye-appeal is everything when it comes to errors, and counting machine damage can be cringe-worthy. "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 OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Eye-appeal is everything when it comes to errors, and counting machine damage can be cringe-worthy. I couldn't agree more ! |
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Valued Member
 Canada
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Thanks to all of you for your comments. Now the French guy has some problems with the following expression  Quote:
counting machine damage can be cringe-worthy. I used different translators for this expression, and there's contradictions with few results.  Thanks to provide your definition ! So to summarize my coin, that counting machine dammage is: a) good b) bad c) neutral In my point of view the eye appeal is not too bad! Edited by SP67
12/05/2021 5:08 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Simply put, the tool damage takes all the good things about this error, now it"s a bad error, worth maybe a third if not damaged.
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Posted 12/02/2021 08:45 am
