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Can Someone Tell Me About This Waffler Lincoln Please ?

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 Posted 02/21/2011  1:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Maineman750 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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What matters is a good understanding of the minting process, so you can easily determine if something you have was even possible to be made at the mint

....now a challenge...maybe somebody could put together an educational thread and make it a sticky or a permanent forum ? Just remember that telling somebody it is impossible doesn't really stop the wheels from turning unless they understand the "why's".
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Yeah, exactly.
And I accept that others know an infinate amount more about this than I do. And they've weighed in. Decision final. Next. Onwards and upwards.

But "my wheels" are still turning....
I guess I should self-educate with the "minting process", because, frankly, I don't see how this could have been done PMD OR at the Mint !
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I recommend one book in particular that has been a big help to me in learning the minting process- Official Price Guide to Mint Errors by Alan Herbert. The title is a bit of a misnomer, the main emphasis is not on prices and the ones given are decidedly on the generic side. Herbert breaks down die varieties and mint errors into the PDS system identification system- Planchet, Die, Strike. Everything caused by the Mint will occur during one of those stages. The book gives written descriptions as well as photos for some of the errors and there are various charts listing things like planchet tolerances, die life cycles, etc.
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I agree. That book helped me tremendously, and although they do list "rough" price ranges, I rely more on the rarity scale listed for each error.
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 Posted 02/23/2011  7:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gasman96 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
What does PMD mean/What is it? gasman96 new here and hoping to learn
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Post Mint Damage.Normally damaged after leaving the mint
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PMD - Post Mint Damage. Anything that happens to damage a coin after it has left the minting press - to INCLUDE damage to the coin at the mint or in the wrapping machines.

This term is used pretty openly to describe anything odd that's NOT a mint error.
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this is kinda off topic but kinda on topic as well here is a link to the Mint's tour it goes through the whole mint process
i enjoyed it

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_tours/?action=vtShell

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