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 Posted 04/24/2011  08:48 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Double Mint to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I was going through some of my coins today and came across some that I forgot I even had. Shows you how disorganized I am. By the way Happy Easter everyone.

DDR
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Worlds smallest Cud
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Lamination
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Strike through?
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 Posted 04/24/2011  10:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add RollHunter to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I like that lamination flaw on the 1957D - looks like Abe is trying to break a 2x4 with his forehead!
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 Posted 04/24/2011  10:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JackB to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Great looking coins, thanks for posting. Happy Easter to you, too!
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 Posted 04/24/2011  10:55 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add HeadsIWin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It's fun making those rediscoveries isn't it! Happy Easter!
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 Posted 04/24/2011  11:57 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jaymon74 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It is nice to find lost treasures!

Good story; About three years ago, my wife was going through her jewelry box and found a coin she had gotten from a rental she had from March of 1997. Apparently it was one of those bad deals with a tenant, where she had to clean up the mess. She handed me the coin pretty casually, saying "Here's a coin for your collection." It ended up being an Saint-Gaudens American Eagle gold $5! I was with her for 7 years at that time and had no idea she had it!

Happy Easter everyone!
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 Posted 04/24/2011  12:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add HeadsIWin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
WOW! Jaymen74:
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 Posted 04/24/2011  12:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add eric273 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Great Re-Finds
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 Posted 04/24/2011  1:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mkman123 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
always a fun thing to find coins that you forgot you had!
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 Posted 04/24/2011  6:58 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The "strike-thru" looks like letters to me:

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 Posted 04/24/2011  9:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Double Mint to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah they are letters but cant make out what it says.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  9:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The nickel is a lamination issue.
The Oklahoma quarter is die chip.
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 Posted 04/24/2011  10:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Double Mint to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Youre probably right about the Quarter but the nickel I'm sorry but its not a lamination. It would either fall into the category of a struck through or counterstamp. Lamination doesn't make letters.
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 Posted 04/25/2011  01:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here are a few examples:
https://www.coincommunity.com/forum...ION_PEEL.jpg
https://www.coincommunity.com/forum...ion_peel.jpg
The last one is just like your coin, except yours has a narrow band.
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 Posted 04/25/2011  12:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Double Mint to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Coop Id agree with you on the lamination issue because lamination is very common on nickels but when I personally observed this coin I could make out two letter Ms and two Es and a S. When I put a question mark beside struck through I wasnt sure if this was some kind of counterstamped or struck through. Just trust me when I say its not a lamination. The quarter I wasnt sure for sure if it was a DDR or not. The things that pass for a Double die nowadays is a little ridiculous lately when most of them are probably die breaks, chips and etc...
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 Posted 04/25/2011  1:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
You are pulling a Rorschach, there are no letters there but it is human nature to try and pull a pattern out of randomness. It is a lamination because it runs parallel to the grain of the metal which can be seen in some of the other darker streaks on the coin.


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The things that pass for a Double die nowadays is a little ridiculous lately when most of them are probably die breaks, chips and etc...

That is entirely due to modern die production and the single squeeze hubbing process. You will never see a massive spread doubled die on a US coin ever again as long as the hubs only get a single impression. Now, the doubling is primarily confined to the center of a coin with little spread- it is what it is. The vast majority of die variety specialists are not so careless as to classify die chips as legitimate doubled dies.
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Ok Ill go with that then.
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