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United States
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Edited by hogskins2win
10/11/2010 8:10 pm
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United States
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The obscured "M" with haziness sounds like a Struck Through Grease coin. Pictures would be able to confirm this. |
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Okay I am going to try with this mid range digital camera and a magnifying glass. Be right back.
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United States
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Okay well I found a third coin with almost all of UNUM missing. Grease spot I think. Can't really get a fair pic of observe line between the breast and "Q" in Quarter.
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United States
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Is this something that should be slabbed..... or is it not really worth it? I am kind of new at this whole error coinage thing.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Struck Through Grease coins rarely have a premium applied to them. The same goes for die cracks. I...love both and hold them for my collection. For me...value is only one part of collecting. I also collect according to a coins coolness factor. :) Be sure to wait for a expert to chime in. I...would not worry about slabbing the coins. A 2x2 is much cheaper. :)
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Someone from Coneca will always want the highest graded die crack of any series. The Washington die crack is up there in the higher grading ranges. It would be neat to have #1 on the pop charts. Send it in, I say, who knows? Maybe it has a different flaw that we cannot see. Neat seeing all those unopened state bags!
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United States
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I agree with Legend, send it in and see what it grades.
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United States
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Okay after reviewing this $25 mint bag I have found 30 samples of what appears to be die cracks. Five running from Washington's breast to the rim, a few barely reach out past the breast and many reach out somewhere in between. All Of these certainly display a pattern of progressively getting worse. Only five are as long and pronounced as the pictures. Additionally, I found six grease struck through samples, three well defined and two with the aforementioned die cracks. Gosh what I first thought was a poor sample of mint coins has turned out nicely! But I don't know if slabbing them all is worth it! What should I do with all these oddities?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Just normal events that happened on the State Quarters. I bought just one bag and the damaged caused by all the coins clanging into each other was not a good thing. It seemed like the postman was using my box as a tambourine all the way to my house. 8( |
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It would make sense that you would find similar errors on more than one coin because these some of these coins were probably struck with the same dies (at least some within a given bag). If you are going to send one in to get slabbed, I would try and find the best coin or one with the most obvious error. If you don't send any in to get slabbed, I think that it would be neat to have a set of coins with errors showing the progress of the die breaks.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I wouldn't waste the money. They are just normal coins that the dies cracked. They may even not note it on the slab. So you would have slabbed a normal coin for a larger sum of money than the coin would be worth. The die cracks happened over and over because of the cheap dies they are using today.
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how in the world did you come across these bags?
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I would definitely keep them together. IMHO, they are worth more as a set. If you decide that you would like to slab one, try and find one that has the die crack in the later stages but still has nice eye appeal. I'm a PCGS man myself but it is my understanding that NGC is more likely to attribute the die crack. What ever you decide, good luck and nice find!
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jnesbitt82, That is exactly what I was thinking, highest grade with die crack in later stages will be off to get slabbed. Uncertain where to send it still. Worried that PCGS won't attribute crack. What about those stuck through grease example.... no slab is where I am leaning.
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Posted 10/11/2010 6:48 pm
