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1974 Dime Error Raised R

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 Posted 12/11/2021  2:53 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Monkiiman to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello friends, thanks for the add to this forum. I found a 1974 dime with a reversed R stamped above the first A in Canada. I would like to hear from some folks that might have some insight into this dime...how it happened, rarity, value.

Thanks,. looking forward to hearing from you all.
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 Posted 12/11/2021  3:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add johnnysprawl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply


Can you please post photos of the front and back so we can see the whole coin?

Is the 'R' raised or sunken?

Typically this is a vise job, so post-mint damage...
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 Posted 12/11/2021  3:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Wrekkdd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
if it is impressed into the coin it's some sort of vise job. If raised I have no idea.
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 Posted 12/11/2021  3:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Monkiiman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hi guys,. thanks for the replies. I will post a few more photos in a minute..I'm still learning how to use this site lol. The R is definitely raised, it's a mystery to me as well.
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 Posted 12/11/2021  4:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Monkiiman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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 Posted 12/11/2021  4:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Muscovy59 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sure looks like a reversed R. Could it have been a dropped letter that got stamped into the surface somehow?
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 Posted 12/11/2021  4:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add johnnysprawl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Could be glue or something. Try soaking it in acetone.

The rim is flat/squished where the 'R' is and it's reversed.

That can't happen during the minting process.
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 Posted 12/11/2021  4:13 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JimmyD to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
To the CCF

Don't really know how it happened but can't see any way it could happen when the
coin was struck. I first thought it might be a dropped letter but there is no
corresponding "R" on the coin. There is also damage on the Obverse in the same spot.
For now I will have to say it is some sort of PMD

PS
Please do not use screen shots, they are too pixilated to see any fine detail.
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 Posted 12/11/2021  4:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Monkiiman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks all for weighing in, I'm new to errors and don't know a great deal about them. There has been a lot of back and forth over this coin on another site as well. I found it in a coin roll and have no idea of where it has been. I do find it odd that someone would go to the trouble of creating some sort of die to press a single R into the rim, circulate it and forty plus years later it ends up in my hands.

I'll try to get some better pictures put up later
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 Posted 12/11/2021  6:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add darryldarryl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That is Post Mint Damage !
At some point in time someone took a Whack at the coin.
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