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It would seem I have acquired far, far too many mis-aligned die coins. Starting to take pics to sell some off over the next few weeks, and thought I would post a little one-two punch of quarters as these are pretty good examples. This one is a strongly mis-aligned obverse die. Note how far off the coin the date has gone. Minor mis-aligned dies are common and only mildly collectable, but at this displacement they can start to go for some better money as it's a neat error and fairly rare this strong. The second coin will be a 1998-P quarter with both dies mis-aligned. 1984-P Washington quarter mint error - mis-aligned obverse die   |
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This one TB if the differential it is over 0.96 mm on Observe you has an off-center. I believe it is.
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very nice TB. I might have to look in on your store at some point.
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Silvio, look at the reverse. It can not be an off center as the reverse is perfectly where it should be. Unless, in the super unusual case where the coin was off center but the reverse die was mis-aligned exactly so far as to be struck normal. Not sure that has ever happened or even could be figured out.
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Was happened before, Over the 5% you still call missaligment? It is very rare but could hapend any time.
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12/26/2023 9:35 pm
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Very nice Misaligned Die!
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Do all the reeds are OK?, must not be IMHO. If recall well on PCGS someone post a similar anomalie coin but was not an quarter (an 20$ St-Gaulden) and Will state it is one face off-center.
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12/26/2023 10:09 pm
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The reeding is complete all the way around. There is a slight partial collar but that might be expected. An off center is struck out of collar, so would not have the reeding like this one does. Here the reverse die was just where it was supposed to be so that struck pretty much normal. The collar deployed and the reeding is pretty close to normal. But the obverse die was quite far mis-aligned and thus the obverse is well off the mark. It's not a rare event, just rare to see one this far off.
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For me it is very strange. I made the perfect round (pic follow) and the off go outside. Seem very strange. An bigger diameter planchet which was not flat on the collar? never heire of, but could happened. Here the pic. I will e-mail Will about, hope have answer soon. Christmans time and grand. grand children there.  |
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This is indeed quite unusual.
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So tell us bats, what's somoething like worth approximately?
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Tough to put a value on something like this as I've never actually seen a quarter this far off up for sale. But I can say that for a Lincoln Cent like this I would expect it to be around $30. This is more common with nickels and likely would be around $15. I am putting up a number of misaligned die coins tonight at auction to try and get a better feel for the value as I do currently have a herd of them. I will also note that I have always considered the word to have a hyphen, as in mis-aligned. But after checking for how to spell the error at error.ref it seems I am wrong and that it is just the word misaligned. The hyphen appears to be an incorrect spelling. |
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Nice example!  |
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Very nice misalignment on that quarter. Quote:
...Unless, in the super unusual case where the coin was off center but the reverse die was mis-aligned exactly so far as to be struck normal. Not sure that has ever happened or even could be figured out. Interesting to do some mental exercise here. The diagnostics would probably start with the strength/weakness of a strike inherent on a tilted die wouldn't they? Meaning one part of the die would be fairly strong (the part to touch the planchet first) and the opposing side of the die would be weak? Words of encouragement are one of the major food groups.
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The 1984-P quarter is an example of a stable misalignment. Many other quarters were struck by this same die pair, with each misalignment sharing the same direction and distance. Other misaligned die errors are unstable, with fluctuating distance and direction from coin to coin.
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