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I am new to collecting coins and don't know if it's possible that this was not done by a person. I can see remnants of another L where the F should be. I don't have a good enough camera to show all the detail, but it's there.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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 Probably not from a person but you never really know. Appeaers to be one of those Grease Filled Die problems. Nice condition for the rest of that coin. What is the date? What is the Obverse like? It really doesn't appear to be from someone playing with that one. Wouldn't make any cents to do just that anyway. Still not sure. |
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United States
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 With Karl. I see no sign of anyone removing the letters after the fact. Pretty interesting coin. Thanks for posting. Wondering if anyone will disagree and call it post mint. |
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Very dramatic, good question
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I also have something like this. It's a1996P dime and on the reverse, like on this coin, it is missing half of the N and the E in ONE, and it is also missing the D and I in dime. However they are remnants of the letters that can barely be seen. The rest of the coin is in EF condition.
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Pillar of the Community
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Here is the obverse. Thanks for your input. The three coin dealers I have shown it to just blew me off and were kind of rude like I was wasting their time.  |
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They didn't deserve your business anyway. And I hope that doesn't deter you from coin collecting; not every collector/dealer is like that. Anyways, back to your original post, I would say it is grease-filled. Kind of strange IMO its just mainly those two letters, like it was done by someone, but despite that, I'm going with grease-filled on this one.
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Hal Ollar, I knew that guy! Set up shop behind Miss Liberty, specialized in rims and always was a greasy character. LOL!! It does appear to be a greased die issue. Could have some small premium if it is as a mint error. A very interesting coin. Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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I hope that doesn't deter you from coin collecting; not every collector/dealer is like that. My first experience with a dealer was the same thing. I showed him a very small box of old coins that I had when I first started collecting. He fingered through it quickly and said it was all junk, "just worth the silver". It turned out that I had a 1916-D Mercury dime. It was slightly damaged but still worth a few hundred. The other dealers after that were very nice. |
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I was in a friend's shop a about six weeks or so ago and a woman came in with a handful of U. S. and foreign coins. She had a gold coin from Europe that she knew had some value. There were some foreign silver and base coins plus some U. S. silver pieces and about 15 or so Lincoln cents. John put all but one of the cents in one pile and one off by itself. The gold coin he paid $300.00 for and there was a little over $100.00 for the miscellaneous foreign and U. S. coins but the real surprise was the one cent he had set aside, it was a solid, undamaged, XF 1909-S VDB for which he paid her $900.00 for. She had no idea that one of the wheat eared cents she had was so valuable. The rest of the cents were all common dates and went into his penny jar for sale at 3 cents each. I have known this guy for over 30 years and he is still as honest today as when I first met him in 1972 when he started working part time in one of the two coin shops in town. Ed ANA LM-3175 |
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Nice to know people like that are out there.
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I did finally find a shop that has been around for at least 15 years. The guy has been there almost as long. He was interested to see what I had in my bag of mostly junk, gave me a few flips for the nicer stuff and suggested I come back when his grader could take a better look at this one. At least he was willing to give it a chance.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Gyrene7483: Dealers like you discribe are few and far between. Most are in buisness to make as much money as possible and if they can low ball someone, usuaully do.
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Hey Gyrene7483 I would deal with a guy like that anyday. I go to a guy I trust but I still ahve to watch him.
They are all slick.
Getting back to the topic, that is a neat coin. I guess I will ahve to go back and look at all my Walkers now.
My first guess was someone took those letters off, I am glad I kept reading.
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