Need help with Mint Error
SimplyCoins1
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I’m hoping someone could help me out with a mint error that I have. I deal with Variety Attribution (FS- varieties) quite often, however, I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to mint errors. This is a coin that I found in a 1958 BU Nickel Roll a few years back and I had set it aside for a while. This received a “Reverse Struck Thru Struck Fragment” and I understand that there are a lot of different types of “Struck Thru” mint errors. What confuses me about this one is that it looks like “Cents” was stamped 4 times, “Monticello” was stamped clearly 2 times below the original and there are at least 2 strong separated steps below the original steps. I have been grading coins for over 11 years now and have never come across one like this. When I first saw it I thought it was a wild Doubled Die Reverse. I guess my question is… What exactly is a “Struck Thru Fragment” and how does it make such wild doubling? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! -Sean !
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It's struck thru a detached laminated piece
of metal from a prior coin, imo
for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
I can't offer an explanation but I like it!
A few more photos may help.
Thank you Fred!
Nice coin!
Thank you!
Wow, what an AWESOME coin, dude! Love it. Fred just gave you an expert opinion coming from THEE expert.
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.my first thought was, "wait, no way, is that a detached struck-through error?!?!"
if i'm not mistaken, it was struck-through more than once as well.
nice error!
ok. could have saved myself a post by reading the op post ><
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with as thin as of a piece of metal as was probably struck through but thick enough to allow design transfer, it's kinda no holds barred type situation. that poor little piece of metal is being bent, contorted, smooshed and more so design elements are going to be a bit mangled at best.
what really is baking my noodle is how did a piece which is positive, get struck through normal orientation (not face down) with the letters being pressed flat but not flat because they were pushed back into the metal below the frag, yet the letters seem to be the strongest part. <--- anyone want to untangle that one, be my guest, por favor.
i am almost thinking as thick as it appears to be, the frag, it could be part of a retained cud or perhaps a full one but then the letters couldn't transfer unless the piece flipped upside down, which it obviously didn't.
the light source seems to be coming directly from above with dark both at top and bottom. i can't tell if the letters in the strike through are incuse or raised. perhaps that is the enigma to my conundrum?
@SimplyCoins1... That is a unique and interesting coin. Thanks for the pictures. Certainly an error coin worthy of slabbing. Cheers, RickO
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It is an intriguing coin.
You said it came out of a BU 1958 roll, any other interesting finds or was this coin a loner?
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A very nice error! Congrats!