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Pillar of the Community
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Hi.
I picked up $5 worth of those "two poppy" quarters from the post office to search through and I noticed a lot wrong with every one of them I think. Accumulations on the lettering on obverse and clumps of metal inside and plugging the grooves of the C and D of CANADA on the reverse, and odds and ends of things, that all look like the dies were really deteriorated. Must have been a bad batch.
The quarters are put in the til to give out as change at the post office but they do have rolls for sale. I just wanted a few to check from the til, so they have dings and such anyways, but I've seen coins listed in a site with accumulations, listed under errors.
Are these considered errors though?
If you want I can scan a couple just so you can see what I'm talking about.
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Pillar of the Community
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yes please post a few scans..
And it's not uncommon for the last run of the coins to look like they been through a war.
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Yeah, these look like the dies probably left some more dramatic cool ones soon after these happened  I'll scan some and be back to post them soon ;) |
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The first roll I opened had one with a damaged planchet. The others in the roll were okay but this one was a keeper:   |
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Cool one!!  I wish I could get an image like yours. I'm about to blow a gasket in frustration trying to get a scan. All the images come out really REALLY dark for these high shiny silver colored ones. I tried various settings. Even inverting colors to see "lighter" images and that does help but ... May have to use some of those because you can't see anything with the normal scans :( I can see I have to plan to budget for a cheap scope or camera for the silver coins especially. I'm going to google to see if I can find images online, just to show you what I mean. |
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Perfect!! Thanks loads Castor  That link shows exactly a lot of the images of what I'm seeing on this whole batch of these coins from the post offices cash til, so from same roll they cracked open. I'll have to find a translator to understand any of the French conversation though. I'm not bilingual, me bad Canadian, I know |
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And much thanks to you too for that thread link Ikandiggit |
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Canada
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So, my coins have a lot of the clumps of metals and little struck throughs and cracks etc from die deteriorations. Should I be keeping them or spending them?  I don't know if these types of extra metals and signs of die deteriorations are "collectible" and worth a couple of dollars to collectors or not. Are they? |
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I'd keep the most extreme examples.
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Maybe I'll keep some of them just to include in the next contest I do for anyone who'd like samples.  |
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I purchased several rolls of these quarters and have found many deficiencies in the product. But I would like to thank ikandiggit for his photos of how to set up for taking good pics, I think mine have improved greatly since seeing your set up. thanks again. If you wish, I could find some errors on these quarters and show them. |
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Posted 04/08/2011 7:38 pm
