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Imohtep Valued Member Canada 321 Posts	Posted 09/28/2011 01:22 am My friend approached me today at work and handed this to me. She said her grandma handed it down to her as a family "heirloom" due to the effigy on the back I highly dooubt it..anyways.. What are your thoughts on this...grade? error type? value? It is magnetic with a P and on the blank side you can see it is indented around were the queen is on the reverse http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d...DSCN2045.jpg http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d...DSCN2049.jpg Edited by Imohtep 09/28/2011 01:24 am Report this Post to the Staff

CaptainFwiffo Pillar of the Community United States 4132 Posts	Posted 09/28/2011 02:31 am Struck through die cap with brockage. It's a good error, though I couldn't give you a value. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 09/28/2011 10:34 pm Check the weight of the coin, if it is the correct weight for a 2001 or later 25c coin, then I would concur with captainfwiffo. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Imohtep Valued Member Canada 321 Posts	Posted 09/29/2011 1:17 pm it is indeed the correct weight. So it's called "struck through die cap with brockage" ? lol my friend wants me to try and label it and everything.. as for a price I'm taking it to my friend at the coin shop down the street to see what he would offer..and we're good pals so I know he won't low ball me Report this Post to the Staff
CaptainFwiffo Pillar of the Community United States 4132 Posts	Posted 09/29/2011 1:32 pm That's what it looks like to me. There are better experts than me here though that could give you a more definitive answer. SPP-Ottawa is correct that you should check the weight; if it's underweight it could just be damaged. Report this Post to the Staff
Imohtep Valued Member Canada 321 Posts	Posted 09/29/2011 8:23 pm Well the head honcho at the coin store offered me $150 for it...siad if I had the other side of it then the set would sell for +$1000 but as just one side of the error its only about $150-$200 Report this Post to the Staff
CaptainFwiffo Pillar of the Community United States 4132 Posts	Posted 09/29/2011 9:04 pm LOL, that's a funny way to put it. The die cap would have struck several coins, so they're not exactly a mated pair. The die cap itself is the more valuable error, but it's less likely to have escaped the mint. That price seems reasonable, but I would solicit other offers if you plan to sell it. It does indicate that the dealer thinks it's a genuine error, however. Report this Post to the Staff
Imohtep Valued Member Canada 321 Posts	Posted 09/30/2011 09:43 am I'm gunna hold on to this beut for a long time. I see blank planchets everywere but not too many one sided quarters :) Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 09/30/2011 3:40 pm What your dealer friend was referring to was the mirror brockage that would be imparted on the cap coin (i.e., the very first coin struck by the stuck capped coin). Coins struck by caps are cool, and even relatively common for smaller sized denominations (e.g., 1c coins from 1965-1979). "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
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