What type of error is this?

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MBradley
MBradley Posts: 2
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I've taken this coin to my local shop w/out luck on finding out it's error. I've researched the types of errors online too, with no luck. Was just wondering if any of you guys have any info on these types of errors. I'm sure the coin has added metal to it as both sides are raised up. I'm takin it to my dad's office to weight tommorow. The coin has NOT been altered though, there has been no smashing since the design on the actual coin is still perfect.


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  • wingedliberty
    wingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
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    Heat was applied to this coin, it is not an indent or a cap.


    Brian.
  • coppercoins
    coppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
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    Clads develop bubbles like that when they are heated. I highly doubt that could be a mint error - nearly 100%. I have seen plenty of these over time.
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  • MBradley
    MBradley Posts: 2
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    Cool, thanks for the reply, just something that's been bugging me for a while. I couldn't figure out anything that could of done this buy I got a decent idea now. Thx again
  • FC57Coins
    FC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
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    Two words come to mind - Ball Peen image
  • wingedliberty
    wingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
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    FC57: If a hammer was applied , then there is a high probability of the copper core being exposed
    from the force of the shattering effect.



    Brian.
  • coppercoins
    coppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
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    There's no way that coin is an example of hammering or tooling of any kind. Both surfaces are convex as opposed to a normal coin, thus expansion had to have taken effect. The only way to make a clad coin expand is to heat it.
    C. D. Daughtrey, NLG
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    My numismatic art work:
    http://www.cdaughtrey.com
    USAF veteran, 1986-1996 :: support our troops - the American way.
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  • LucyBop
    LucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
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    Guess they told you Frankie.
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  • Cam40
    Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
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    lol That look with that reply is great Luce. hehe.

    Also about the coin...Isnt it a bit worn for such an `error `to have circulated to that condition?
    I guess it was heated to cause the bubbling.
  • dingodog
    dingodog Posts: 273 ✭
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    It is obviously a transponder error! Scotty must have been asleep at the switch. image

    Or, perhaps a failed cloning experiment of the Realians?

    No? Ok, I'll go along with a DWBT*

    Rgds
    Jan

    * Note: Dork with blow torch.
    U.S. coin collector since 1943. Have tried desperatly to keep every coin that has come to hand, but unfortunately, some got away.
  • Dog97
    Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
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    It's not a defective die like the holder says. There is an error from trapped air in the planchet from a void in the rolling process that expands from the heat of striking but it's usually not as major as that. Plus you can still see the black around the devices where the the black didn't circulate off or wasn't cleaned off.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.

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