Anyone Seen This One Before?

Thanks for straightening me out Coop- for any coin that's not a die variety, I won't claim to be sure of it. I usually rely on Mike Diamond to tell me I'm wrong- He's very good at it! lol

Maybe I read wrong- but how do you have a non-numismatic coin? Isn't that like a non-citrus lemon?

I do have an educational collection as well- mine focuses on counterfeit and fake errors- both die varieties, striking and planchet (fake) errors, I purchase them to keep them off the market as well as learning tools.

Again, I defer to the AUTHORITY! Thanks Chuck.

I'm pretty confident of anything I post, I've studied die varieties (yes, I know the above coin is not a die variety) since I was 12, over 20 years now. I just don't have the energy to go back and forth with novice opinions. Sometimes an authority corrects me, but not on actual die varieties, that's my strength. I fall on experts when it comes to planchet and striking errors.

Chuck- I subscribe to your school of thought. There's no teacher like 200 bags of pennies! Seriously, I know I've looked at over a million coins under a loupe. No exaggeration- and after seeing a great quantity, one becomes quite familiar with what is significant vs a common and worthless anomaly. You can have every "authority" in the world tell you what they think, but until you've cherried it and understand it's origin and cause, it won't mean much. I'm very much self taught, but not without reference books and the opinions of others.

Thanks so much for sharing Thad, I'm a real fan of die crack to Cud progressions. The only place you can ever hope to find them is in fresh, original BU stuff. Getting tougher all the time!