Impossible dates
BustDMs
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Here is an example. Do you have others?
Q: When does a collector become a numismatist?
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
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Just a slightly better grade than my 1804 half.......
Judging from your pictures, it looks not only possible, but has indeed occurred.
Cheers, RickO
I posted a few from a great bogus half website that is linked in a different thread.
Here's a fantastic one..
20th Century
1914-d Lincoln in xf/au
1916-d Merc in xf/au
1919 P&D Walker in xf/au
Heh heh..🙂
Definitely more than one interpretation of the phrase!
Contemporary counterfeits are a pretty esoteric area of study and collecting, so it's no surprise there is confusion...
I'm pretty sure @BustDMs is referring to impossible dates being CC coins with dates that don't normally occur on a certain type..
Possibly my favorite counterfeit! I got to handle once.
Is this in the ANA collection?
It's pretty wild to think about the outlaw who made this back in the day... risking the gallows, he designs a basically ridiculous version of a circulating coin.
Probably Did get hung for his troubles, but his strange and cool artistic creation still manages to survive for centuries and actually become arguably a more important piece of numis history than many of the legitimate coins of the day..
🙂
I don't think that the ANA has one.
All possible????
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Hanged.
(Not grammar police. More like neighborhood watch.)
A 1798-S Trade Dollar. No problem that San Francisco wasn't incorporated until 1850 and a mint opened four years later. (And the obverse is a sort-of Type I/II hybrid.)
Maybe a 1915 Walker?
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
Someone had to ....
Yeah, I can recall an impossible date. She left town.
I have an 1815 large cent somewhere..
Here's one that recently sold on eBay.
https://ebay.com/itm/324858833686?hash=item4ba3186b16:g:cxEAAOSwiyhhftep&nma=true&si=VA6DXGPYjZcqHnoIaKtU3bMq6YY%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557](https://www.ebay.com/itm/324858833686?hash=item4ba3186b16:g:cxEAAOSwiyhhftep&nma=true&si=VA6DXGPYjZcqHnoIaKtU3bMq6YY%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557)
The 1815 Cent with the misspelled word on the reverse is the more valuable variety.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
The famous 1987 aluminum cent 😁
I'll try and put this back on track, I think the OP has thrown in the towel 😅
I wish I had a cool impossible date or two, but for now here's another one from the archives...
How about the 1965D Peace dollar? You know there is a few out there somewhere - wish the mint would offer amnesty so we could see one.... my papi who was a big collector told me he knew of one but it is being stored in Europe .... maybe a rumor but wouldn’t be surprised. They made enough of them and did hand some out. Everyone was supposed to return it or face repercussion but one was spent at a bar and at least one employee bought the limit of two but only retuned one. Who knows but I think they are out there...