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ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

:D:D:D

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    selling3selling3 Posts: 166 ✭✭✭

    Very nice. Why am I thinking about Disney Land?

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    JBKJBK Posts: 14,789 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I guess its legal tender since the denomination is there. :p

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    FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's another nick-name for double struck
    coins with the two strikes aligned like this -

    "Mickey Mouse Ears"
    

    (really!)

    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors
    for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It looks like a "hiden Mickey" at Disney World.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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    TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Kinda like the way the copper core squirts out of the planchet.

    (Guessing "squirts" is not an accepted numismatic term). ;)

    Easily distracted Type Collector
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    ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

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    ashelandasheland Posts: 22,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's cool! :o

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    DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very neat errors!

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    thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That one is special.

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    BustDMsBustDMs Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TommyType said:
    Kinda like the way the copper core squirts out of the planchet.

    (Guessing "squirts" is not an accepted numismatic term). ;)

    Oozes

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    A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.



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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very Nice!

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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    goldengolden Posts: 9,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like it!

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Really interesting... Now that one had to be found in a coin bag instead of a roll.... or maybe got out of the mint in a lunch bag....Cheers, RickO

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