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OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 4, 2025 8:45PM in U.S. Coin Forum

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  • Mr_SpudMr_Spud Posts: 6,104 ✭✭✭✭✭

    SOS struck on screw

    Mr_Spud

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,175 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Frankenstein screw. It was struck on a screw. What we win 🏆

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,907 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Does this thread count ?
    WHAT ?

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,806 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That screw looks like it may have fallen out of a piece of mint machinery. :o

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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  • maymay Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 30, 2023 4:38AM

    Is it still worth a penny? ;)

    Type collector, mainly into Seated. -formerly Ownerofawheatiehorde. Good BST transactions with: mirabela, OKCC, MICHAELDIXON, Gerard

  • ApplejacksApplejacks Posts: 384 ✭✭✭

    Screw this😉

  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Stainless steel metal screw? Why is there copper showing through?

  • AlanSkiAlanSki Posts: 1,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 30, 2023 5:36AM

    MS63 lol

  • Morgan WhiteMorgan White Posts: 8,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @gonzer said:
    Stainless steel metal screw? Why is there copper showing through?

    Copper from the planchets gets imparted on the dies.

  • JWPJWP Posts: 26,332 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 30, 2023 6:10AM

    A nickel and a Lincoln cent
    THE 6TH CENTS

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,806 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @fathom said:
    Unscrewpulous employee hijinks.

    I had that thought. That screw may have needed some help to make its way into the coining chamber.

    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

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @PerryHall said:
    That screw looks like it may have fallen out of a piece of mint machinery. :o

    Sure it did, just like a nail fell out of the mint machinery and into the coining chamber. :D

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Ownerofawheatiehorde said:
    Is it still worth a penny? ;)

    The screw is worth more then a penny.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't know what it looks like in a slab but they actually weighed the screw??? That must make it official!! :D:D

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • ELVIS1ELVIS1 Posts: 180 ✭✭✭

    Pretty awesome...

  • GiveMeProofGiveMeProof Posts: 634 ✭✭✭✭

    MS64+ ??? did it CAC? :D

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I should rename this thread....... How many different items, besides plachets have been stuck at the mints? 🤣 :D 😂

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • safari_dudesafari_dude Posts: 163 ✭✭✭

    Where did you get your nails done? At the mint of course! 🤪

  • WAYNEASWAYNEAS Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Put the two together and you have a screw nail. lol
    Wayne

    Kennedys are my quest...

  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,923 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 5, 2025 10:02AM

    These were intentionally done at the Philadelphia Mint around 2000–2001

    I believe there are two or three of these struck Dimes on finishing nails, and the one in the PCGS holder was the one I sold in the Chicago ANA approximately 15 years ago and then appeared in the Heritage auction six months or so later.

    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 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • ByersByers Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I purchased this from Fred and sold it to a customer.


    mikebyers.com Dealer in Major Mint Errors, Die Trials & Patterns - Author of NLG Best World Coin Book World's Greatest Mint Errors - Publisher & Editor of minterrornews.com.
  • Clackamas1Clackamas1 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would be curious to see the coins struck afterwards and the interesting die marks that must have been left.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Clackamas1 said:
    I would be curious to see the coins struck afterwards and the interesting die marks that must have been left.

    I'm wondering if some of these were struck, knowing the dies were at the end of their life or ready to fail.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 9,777 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's exscrewcient to look at!

  • Clackamas1Clackamas1 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @Clackamas1 said:
    I would be curious to see the coins struck afterwards and the interesting die marks that must have been left.

    I'm wondering if some of these were struck, knowing the dies were at the end of their life or ready to fail.

    It would make sense if what Fred said was the case in that they were done on purpose. If a bunch of the subsequent coins made it out into the world there would have been news about it.

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 9,988 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Hey yall, watch this!"

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 9,988 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Clackamas1 said:

    If a bunch of the subsequent coins made it out into the world there would have been news about it.

    What news exactly would talk about it??

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 9,988 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Byers said:
    I purchased this from Fred and sold it to a customer.

    Nonesense - so what if it's magnetic - it Sure wouldn't be able to to exit the coining machine!

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,816 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Evidence to establish there was a screw loose.

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 9,988 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Mr_Spud said:
    SOS struck on screw

    How come the screw wasn't flattened?

  • ByersByers Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 5, 2025 6:38PM

    @Steven59 said:

    @Byers said:
    I purchased this from Fred and sold it to a customer.

    Nonesense - so what if it's magnetic - it Sure wouldn't be able to to exit the coining machine!

    No one is suggesting that this was found in a roll of Lincoln Cents.

    More info is in my listing, including how intentionally made mint errors got out, and Fred Weinberg’s video by PCGS.

    https://mikebyers.com/83670233.html

    mikebyers.com Dealer in Major Mint Errors, Die Trials & Patterns - Author of NLG Best World Coin Book World's Greatest Mint Errors - Publisher & Editor of minterrornews.com.
  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Always enjoy Fred's discussions. 👍

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • ByersByers Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OAKSTAR said:
    Always enjoy Fred's discussions.

    Yes, that’s why I include Fred’s video in any listing of mine where the coin was an intentionally struck mint error.

    mikebyers.com Dealer in Major Mint Errors, Die Trials & Patterns - Author of NLG Best World Coin Book World's Greatest Mint Errors - Publisher & Editor of minterrornews.com.
  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No way to treat> @Byers said:

    I purchased this from Fred and sold it to a customer.


    Looks like Thors hammer gave Abe a crowning.

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,907 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 6, 2025 1:09AM

    @Clackamas1 said:
    I would be curious to see the coins struck afterwards and the interesting die marks that must have been left.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And just like that, there goes another perfectly good thread!

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,907 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OAKSTAR said:
    I don't know what it looks like in a slab but they actually weighed the screw??? That must make it official!! :D:D


    What ? :*

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