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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 9, 2023 10:01AM

    @telephoto1 said:
    Guys like this seem to be coming out of the woodwork more and more. We are getting more phone calls and/or seeing it in our store more often of late. Every time some random nimrod with a camera and an opinion makes a new video talking about "errors"...all of a sudden everyone who sees a nick, mar, or scratch on something thinks they have a rarity worth big bucks and they come to sites like this one seeking validation. When they aren't being told what they want to hear, they get butthurt and lash out. Get ready for more of this stuff.

    Yep keeps getting worse and worse, I see this on the NGC forum but at about 10X more often than here. While folks are correct when they say send it to PCGS, the reality is that will only create more unhappiness as peeps like the op will then only be angry about how PCGS stole their money, swapped the coin and/or lied to them.

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  • FrazFraz Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 9, 2023 10:10AM

    @wheelguy93 said:
    … dye[.] I’m not meaning to argue[,] but I pulled this from a bank roll and I just find it hard to believe that anyone even attempting to fake a error would strike it multiple times to this extent.

    You are meaning to argue, too; but undoes what you say before that.

    I thought that your username had something to do with circular scratch expertise.

  • jayPemjayPem Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So you say there's a race of men in the trees?
    Thanks for calling, we wait all night for calls like these...

  • AlanSkiAlanSki Posts: 1,925 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My new favorite word:
    Pareidolia.

  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Soon to be listed on ebay as a rare error if it's not already. ;)

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe you should just send it out to be graded as an error!

  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TomB said:
    Howdy and welcome.

    Based upon your first post, I suspect your stay will neither be long, productive or satisfactory for you. Good luck searching the web.

    Hey Tom, while we're off picking nits. that OR should be NOR.

    https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/snr/3511/19686

    Grammar Guru Tip #22
    Think of "nor" as "or" for negative sentences, and it's not optional. Use "nor" before the second or farther of two alternatives when "neither" introduces the first.

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  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @wheelguy93 said:
    Yet this is possible but the reverse being caught one the corner is impossible cmon now!

    I will say this, if this 1970 D is yours then you have a true error coin and I say congrats. But before you waste your time and perhaps funds, read through this and then read one of the books dedicated to the minting process, step by step. Be sure to understand the difference between a coin being struck by a die and one pressed against another coin. Good luck.
    Jim

    https://www.usmint.gov/learn/production-process/coin-production


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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,294 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You're better off getting the truth from expert quacks.

  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TwoSides2aCoin said:
    You're better off getting the truth from expert quacks.

    As I have learned from my wife, the answer is almost always "Mallard crossed with something".

    As I've learned from here, the answer is almost always PMD.

    As I've learned from Reddit, the answer is almost always Thailand.

    The questions are left to the reader... think of it as Jeopardy...

    Although I will give the 1st one: "hey, that's a weird duck, what is it"

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @wheelguy93 ... welcome to the Forum. I'm not going to pile on here but my first impression was PMD. You've heard from @FredWeinberg ... who literally wrote the book on error coins... https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Error_Coin_Encyclopedia.html?id=9HryPwAACAAJ
    ... as well as other industry leaders... @ctf_error_coins and @seanq ... I'm not an error expert and I'm still learning, but I know enough to put my trust in the people who do.

    If you still think otherwise, my only suggestion is to sent the coin off to our hosts for certification and authentication.

    Best of luck in all your future endeavors...

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  • burfle23burfle23 Posts: 2,330 ✭✭✭✭✭

    WOW. now 20 LOLs in one post and climbing...

  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @124Spider said:

    @lkenefic said:

    Best of luck in all your future endeavors...

    I have a friend who was not a stellar student in college. He wanted to be a veterinarian. His first rejection from a vet school, mirrored by each one in turn, ended with "Good luck in your alternate career."

    Even he thought it was funny!

    lol... it's also the last line I write for sub par former students looking for recommendations for Medical School or PhD graduate programs. I try to let them down easy...

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  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,668 ✭✭✭✭

    There is nothing more painful in numismatics than the person confusing PMD for a rare and valuable error. I get things like this emailed to me half a dozen times a week.

  • Jzyskowski1Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SanctionII.
    Absolutely brilliant. Laughing so hard I spit my coffee across the dang room. Thanks 😂😂😂

    🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶

  • ms71ms71 Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Keep movin' folks . . . . . . . nothin' to see here . . . . . . . keep movin' . . . . . .

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    Now listen boy, I'm tryin' to teach you sumthin' . . . . that ain't an optical illusion, it only looks like an optical illusion.

    My mind reader refuses to charge me....
  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone who say this OP, commented to me that the coin was damaged so badly, he couldn't see the error. ;)
    Jim


    When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln

    Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,249 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein

  • Rob9874Rob9874 Posts: 318 ✭✭✭✭

    I have a feeling the line going through Lincoln's head is damage caused by someone trying to stamp the ONE on it to make an error. Unsatisfied with their results, it was spent and ended up in a random bank roll.

  • MFeldMFeld Posts: 13,511 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FredWeinberg said:
    Mark, I had to laugh- I used to get a half a dozen emails every hour in the office like that,
    And phone calls on my 800 number which I put in every ad!

    Fred, I’m surprised you didn’t get a lot more then that!

    Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Try being known as the error guy and having over 2100 followers on Instagram were so much misinformation is peddled.

    My Instagram inbox is full every morning :s

  • AdamLAdamL Posts: 165 ✭✭✭

    @FredWeinberg said:
    Mark, I had to laugh- I used to get a half a dozen emails every hour in the office like that,
    And phone calls on my 800 number which I put in every ad!

    Has it always been this bad? I check in on several forums and it seems like these "error" threads that are PMD have really exploded the last few years.

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 9, 2023 1:14PM

    @AdamL said:

    @FredWeinberg said:
    Mark, I had to laugh- I used to get a half a dozen emails every hour in the office like that,
    And phone calls on my 800 number which I put in every ad!

    Has it always been this bad? I check in on several forums and it seems like these "error" threads that are PMD have really exploded the last few years.

    Instagram, get rich quick videos.

  • TurboSnailTurboSnail Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MFeld said:

    @FredWeinberg said:
    Mark, I had to laugh- I used to get a half a dozen emails every hour in the office like that,
    And phone calls on my 800 number which I put in every ad!

    Fred, I’m surprised you didn’t get a lot more then that!

    This must be an insult to Fred. Self-proclaimed coin experts on Youtube would had recieved more. :p

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 19,966 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FredWeinberg said:
    Mark, I had to laugh- I used to get a half a dozen emails every hour in the office like that,
    And phone calls on my 800 number which I put in every ad!

    And when you retired, a lot of dealers were complaining that they had to change their outgoing voice mail messages that referred people to their error department using your 800 number. ;)

  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He must be really angry now!!

  • I posted this coin last night when discussing VAMs with Ifthisvamsarockin and he told me it was PMD. Do you know what I TOLD him?

  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @wheelguy93 said:
    I had reached out to just answers expert coin appraisals. And was informed I had nothing of significance so I argued about the one from the reverse being stamped on the in god we trust line. Please someone tell me I’m right cause this quack was making me angry. I’ve been doing this long enough to spot and know an error as clear as this!

    Don't feel too bad.

    There are a lot of easier to spot things that can even stump an expert once in a while.

    You seem to have some knowledge of the hobby. Build on it.

    Tempus fugit.
  • Jzyskowski1Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cladking said:

    @wheelguy93 said:
    I had reached out to just answers expert coin appraisals. And was informed I had nothing of significance so I argued about the one from the reverse being stamped on the in god we trust line. Please someone tell me I’m right cause this quack was making me angry. I’ve been doing this long enough to spot and know an error as clear as this!

    Don't feel too bad.

    There are a lot of easier to spot things that can even stump an expert once in a while.

    You seem to have some knowledge of the hobby. Build on it.

    You bet. And work on your potty mouth and chill with the attitude. Show a wee bit of class and a whole lot more respect for the members here. Good luck.

    🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶

  • goldengolden Posts: 9,611 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not this crap again!

  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,246 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BStrauss3 said:

    @TomB said:
    Howdy and welcome.

    Based upon your first post, I suspect your stay will neither be long, productive or satisfactory for you. Good luck searching the web.


    Hey Tom, while we're off picking nits. that OR should be NOR.

    https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/snr/3511/19686

    Grammar Guru Tip #22
    Think of "nor" as "or" for negative sentences, and it's not optional. Use "nor" before the second or farther of two alternatives when "neither" introduces the first.

    I absolutely already know that and had noticed my grammatical error as soon as I posted to the thread. However, I don't like to go back and edit my posts unless it is something that has to be cleared up to avoid confusion. So, I just thought anyone who would realize the error likely would not bother with it in the thread, especially if they are accustomed to my posts and realize that I am typically pretty darn accurate in my writing.

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  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Must be a record for most replies on a revolving door topic.

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