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Valued Member
United States
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would this be a capped die, or is something else going on? a guy at work brought this in to show me.. of course he wants to know what it's worth  reeded edge looks normal if you need to know anything else about it just let me know THANKS !!   |
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Rest in Peace
United States
1943 Posts |
This is post mint damage. No added value.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
I would wait for Mike Diamond's opinion on this one. The reason? The reverse looks normal, just the obverse is affected. I've never seen this anomaly on one face only. If both edges of the coin looked like the obverse, then I would have said Dryer Coin. But this looks different to me. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
613 Posts |
Interesting dime. I'd like to know what made the bumps on the inner rim that almost looks like denticles. Hurry up and wait.
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Rest in Peace
United States
1943 Posts |
I noticed that too Coop and this one does look different than a typical Dryer Coin. But I don't see any way the minting process could produce an obverse like this. The metal looks like it was rolled around the edge and pushed back over the surface on the obverse only. I think either metal was added to this coin giving this look or only part of the edge has normal reeding. I think I see the copper core showing around the edge of the obverse which makes me think the reeding is not completely there. A weight of the coin would help determine an answer. Like you said, Mike's answer always helps. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
Looks like scrap from a capped die that was disintegrating. But Mike would be the expert on this. So I'll wait to see what he says.
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Valued Member
 United States
420 Posts |
ok, I like the detail better here... wish I could get a closer shot of the edge, but my camera won't let me ( there's a bit of debris on his hair, you can see the shadow) i DO see what I think is a slight railroad rim, but it's sooo slight you cant see it in the pic, even with a 10X loupe its easy to miss without backlighting- maybe my eyes are just playing tricks   Edited by twincam_04
05/19/2010 12:00 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4000 Posts |
Interesting, has a bottle cap look to it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2669 Posts |
That is cool! You can see the last 2 date digits on top of the rolled up part. Capped die might be right - one that fell off and was struck?
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Valued Member
United States
420 Posts |
it IS cool ... I'm very interested in getting this from my coworker for myself, and want to offer him a fair price .. any ideas?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
It is definitely not a capped die and almost certainly just another damaged coin. I really have no idea what could make the coin look like that but I do know that there is nothing that can happen at the Mint to make a coin look like that. A specific process has to occur to create a mint error but a coin can be damaged in an almost infinite number of ways so it is much easier to describe an error than it is to describe PMD. |
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United States
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I see what appears to be lines over the word liberty and Mr Roosevelts head, which could be remnants of letters from a die, what die is another question, they appear to not have any constant pattern to them, I too await Mr.D and his expertise.....
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Valued Member
United States
56 Posts |
it almost looks like its made out of lead
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Valued Member
United States
476 Posts |
I'd have to say Dryer Coin...but how the reeding survived does puzzle me. Vewy interesting. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is it at all possible that something may have happened to the blanking press? We hear about incomplete planchet errors, but are there other errors associated with this phase of the minting process?
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Posted 05/19/2010 03:40 am
