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Pillar of the Community
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Nice! That first one is about as off-center as it gets!
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United States
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United States
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Those are crazy. Where did you find those? WOLF
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Thanks WOLF. The first one I bought from an error dealer friend of mine. Its the farthest I've ever seen. The second I picked up on ebay. swcoin.ecrater.com
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United States
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That first one in particular is just the coolest thing. A planchet error that accidentally got some coin on it.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Man....... that's WAY OFF! Back here in Sydney, I have still managed to get all of the current base metal denominations of US coins miss struck, for very little money, but the examples that I have are not as left field as yours! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That first one is about as far off center as it gets without simply having a blank planchet. It's awesome!
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South Africa
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I guess it is going to be a bit difficult to tell the date on these ones ?  |
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I was just wondering on the first few pictures there are clearly some spots on the coin where the strike got it, picture 1 at 1'o clock.
Will this be the flowing of the surface material what happened to the metal when it was hit? you can see it clearly where the side picture is that it has changed in colour in that area?.
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United States
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Interesting observation zarboy. I'm thinking that the planchet is stained. With what, beats me. Thanks for the comments everyone :)
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Wow!
How does something like that get through quality control and leave the mint?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Considering my experience, in being able to easily obtain very obviously miss struck US base metal coinage for not much money, it must be that quality control is based on strictly non human methods.
The adoption such quality control methods must be pragmatic, considering the huge numbers of coins, particularly pennies, that need to be struck.
Such coins, by my observations at least, seem to be fairly common.
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08/07/2010 07:56 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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The first one looks like an indent. The second one is definitely an off center.
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Coop, what do you mean by indent?
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Posted 08/06/2010 8:24 pm
