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That seem unlikely, no?   |
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That must be one-of-a-kind!
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Fun & games for bored Mint workers.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Re: bored mint workers — kind of like when we were kids putting pennies on the railroad tracks.
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How do they know it's on a US dime planchet? Was it weighed? Did it have an XRF done? This has got 11' pole marks all over it.
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Back in 1999 the world was worried about year 2000 and the out come of computer problems, Y2K if I remember correctly. The RCM for sure produced a large amount of Sacagewa dpllar blanks for the US mint for the same Y2K reasoning, that is why you have an example of a toonie on a Sacagewa planchet and also a couple 50 cents on a Sacagewa planchets. Maybe the RCM made US dime planchets too, PCGS must have XRF this coin to be an US dime planchet and the weight is right on for them to slab it, this is first I seen of a US dime planchet but the toonie and 50 cents examples are stuning coins |
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Very cool!  Maybe a mint assisted error?  Errers and Varietys.
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Got it ! The guy on the reverse is using that 11 foot pole. Good one, Okie.
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The guy on the reverse is using that 11 foot pole.  They don't show the edge but a US dime planchet is clad. The RCM does not and cannot produce clad planchets.PCGS only needed to weigh it and look at the edge to determine it was a US dime planchet. Definitely an assisted error. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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I use the 11' pole comment alot. For those of you who don't get it, it's another way of saying that "I wouldn't touch that with a 10' pole".
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Image of the coin in question, to determine actual length of pole.  "Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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When the RCM was contracted to produce the Sac planchets for the US mint, one would guess they were sent the stock for the raw materials. Other than gold and silver, the multiply steel are off site supplied. In the last couple years a dealer in GTA had like a dozen Canada 10 cent on a US clad planchet and one was in an auction, the dealer coins were raw and you can clearly see the rim and the layers, coin has no eye appeal as with this 25 cent example but it does have the US error guys bidding as a dual country error, even with the bidding today it"s a 800.00 Canadian error in my opinion only no real eye appeal. The Gta dealer had a couple coins graded by ICCS, maybe the RCM was experimenting with cladded planchets as they were trialing all kinds of materials in this time period to reduce costs Edited by john100
05/25/2024 1:01 pm
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If I remember right our moderator found one of these dimes a couple years ago
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How do they know it's on a US dime planchet? A quick look at the edge would tell you. US 10c coins are Cu-Ni clad with a copper core. "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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