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MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
Examples:

1873-S Seated dollar

1931 Standing Liberty quarter

1895 business strike Morgan dollar

1804 business strike Bust dollar struck in 1804

Andy Lustig

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,515 ✭✭✭
    1964 Peace Dollar

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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    1932 Proof Washington.
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  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    1910 IHC
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,759 ✭✭✭✭
    1972 (or is it 1974) aluminum Lincoln cent.

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1966 proof quarter.image
    Tempus fugit.
  • 1933 Washington Quarterimage
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An undated states quarter obverse with an obsolete eagle reverse.
    Tempus fugit.
  • NapNap Posts: 1,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1873-S no arrows half dollar

    1841-O half eagle

    1916 liberty head proof quarter

    1921-S proof liberty head dollar

    1804 half dollar

    1959 wheat cent image
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    If they're unknown how can we know about them before they are found?
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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A 1798 small eagle $10 would be nice...
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  • 2004 Lincoln cent.
  • The Dupont 1866 no motto dollar. Of course considering the difficulty they had discovering the quarter and half dollar even after they had been bought maybe discovering it wouldn't be that easy. (The unique no motto quarter even got slabbed by NGC as a regular 1866 proof quarter without being noticed.)
  • 1917 Proof Buffalo Nickel

  • I think all the regular issue coinage of 1921 may also exist as proof specimens. There are the Chapman and Zerbe proof Morgan dollars, the satin and matte proof Peace dollars, and there is a 1921 matte proof Saint-Gaudens $20. Also, the 1921 Missouri 2x4 commemorative issue of that year exists in matte proof.

    It's certainly possible that there are a 1921 matte proof Lincoln cent, a 1921 matte proof buffalo nickel, and some sort of specimens for the dime, quarter, and half dollar. A matte proof Walker would be an incredibly cool coin...
  • ScarsdaleCoinScarsdaleCoin Posts: 5,179 ✭✭✭✭✭
    how about some confederate states of america coinage?
    think that might be possible....
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  • Colonial documents record a base-metal token that was circulating in Massachusetts around 1700 -- a merchant token or some such. No one has found a surviving sample yet, but maybe someday...


  • << <i>1972 (or is it 1974) aluminum Lincoln cent >>



    The aluminum cent was 1974 image

    1982 SBA? image
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd like to find the mint set token from the '84 to '98 mint sets struck on a struck cent.

    Or even just clashed with a cent die. Or a mule. Anything.
    Tempus fugit.
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The one in the crease in my sofa...just can't seem to get it out image
  • Suprised no one said this yet....1964 Franklin Halve


  • << <i>


    1916 liberty head proof quarter

    >>




    There were around 5 of these made,I'm not sure if any are recorded of.
  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    I believe that an 1870-s quarter will be found.

    Others that I would like to see and could be found are:

    1895 Phila. Morgan business strike, as per Andy

    1796 small eagle quarter eagle

    1798 small eagle eagle, as per Andy

    1964 Peace dollar, as others said. This coin has been seen and will come out to the public someday.

    It is exciting thinking about all the possibilities, isn't it?


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  • NGC black core sample slab.

    Cameron Kiefer
  • dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
    I highly doubt a genuine 1895-P business strike Morgan will ever surface. I have doubts this coin was even really produced, and if it was, they were probably all melted long ago.


    dragon
  • Sticking with my series...
    1849-D G$1 closed wreath
    1858-D quarter eagle [actually remotely plausible]
    1861 southern branch mint specimen set rumored to have been presented to Jefferson Davis and said to be owned by a wealthy Montgomery/South Alabama family [very unlikely any substance to these rumors...all information always third hand at best...fictional?]
    1922 dime
    1922 SLQ
    1922 Walker
    1922 Proof set
    Collect for enjoyment
  • foodudefoodude Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭
    1932 Washington Quarter Specimen 68 image
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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,777 ✭✭✭
    Proof SLQ
    1999 Sac Dollar
    2000 SBA
    Proof Steel Cent (After all, we have a proof war nickel!)
    Proof Silver SBA (Was "REQUIRED" by law in 1999 after all)
    Proof Silver Sac (Was required until law was modified, delaying release of silver proof sets)
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  • The 1985 Canadian nickel in your pocket change.
  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    Simple...

    The last of 8 different 1982 cent varieties (1982D small date copper)

    1973 steel-copper clad cent (actually made, all destroyed)

    1965 mill pressed cent (again made, but destroyed)

    1961 brass cent (officially changed from bronze to brass in 1962)

    1963 bronze cent (all known are brass)

    1972, 1973, 1974 cross-reverse type cent.

    enough? LOL! NONE of these are known to exist, and all would be a bit difficult to detect, except to someone who knows their stuff.
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,307 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Simple...

    The last of 8 different 1982 cent varieties (1982D small date copper) >>



    Sure. That's a gimme.


    << <i>
    1973 steel-copper clad cent (actually made, all destroyed)
    >>


    Didn't Numis News report some of these survived a few years back after
    being rescued from a melting furnace? Or were those the 1974?
    Tempus fugit.
  • I was just thinking yesterday if it was possible of a 1968 dated coin like the nickel, dime, quarter or half dollar could have been muled with the new obverse die from Denver with an old 1964 reverse die from Denver, thus producing a different type of double mint mark. One on the obverse and one on the reverse.

    Anyone think or know if something like that could happen.

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  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Didn't Numis News report some of these survived a few years back after
    being rescued from a melting furnace? Or were those the 1974? >>


    My understanding is that all these examples were melted - not very many were minted in the first place, and they were minted under pretty tight supervision. Not much about these is known other than a few scant reports from the 70s and early 80s that they were made, but none got out. I did, however, see an auction on eBay of one of these a number of years ago, but I'm not sure it was the real deal. It could have been a foreign planchet error. nonetheless, it went for pretty big money - bigger than my budget would handle.

    Of course the tell-tale sign that you would have one of these is that they would be magnetic. Start checking!
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  • GATGAT Posts: 3,146
    The 1964 Peace Dollar is not unknown. One popped up in Europe last year and was in the news. The coin looked like it had been circulated.
    USAF vet 1951-59
  • jcpingjcping Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭

    1972-P type 4 Ike dollars image
    an SLQ and Ike dollars lover
  • The 2004 cent, currently unknown could be discovered soon.

    1916 Barber Proofs, all denominations.
    An MS68FBL Franklin Half (any year).
    A PR70 Pre-WWI proof in any denomination. There are a number of PR69's.
    An clad quarter with two obverses. Only a coin with two reverses is known to date.
  • Re 1974 copper clad steel cents.

    From Coin World Almanac Millennium edition - Review of the news 1994 Pg 16

    "Another major discovery was reported in July when a collector sent to Coin World an experimental 1974 Lincoln cent struck on a bronze clad steel planchet, a coin previously unknown to collectors. the coin was struck at the same time as the experimental 1974 Lincoln cent (in 1973) in aluminum. The finder, whose anonymity Coin World protected, said he had been an employee of a PA steel mill in 1974 when Mint officials showed up with at least 40 bags of the experimental steel pieces to be melted and destroyed in the mills furnaces. A bag of the coins broke open and the finder was able to pick up a half dozen pieces before Mint security guards scooped up the rest and threw them in the furnace. Mint officials confirmed that it had struck the experimental pieces. The discovery proved false a statement a 1973 Treasury report that the only experimental cents struck with the standard Lincoln cent dies were made of aluminum; the report said the bronze clad steel pieces were struck from "nonsense dies". "

    I remember that issue, it also had a picture of the coin being held up in the air by a magnet.

    As for a 1968 coin from Denver with a mintmark on both sides, I would say not likely since the dies with the mintmarks on the reverse would have been last used in 1966, and then only on the silver coins still being struck, and the dies with the mintmarks on the front were not introduced until two years later. Once the coinage of the silver ended there would have been no reason to retain the old mintmarked reverse dies and they would have been scheduled for destruction. (And the dies are destroyed each year. They are no longer kept like the were to the mid 19th century) The idea that a die would be missed and still sit around for almost two years and then be muled with a new dies is very unlikely. Much more likely would be that it would be used in error to create a 1966 or 67-D dime, quarter or half, or a 65-D nickel.
  • 1918/7 Lincoln Cent
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Bicentennial set (dollar, half dollar, quarter) made of gold.

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  • Would anyone belive a 1910 Lincoln , I'm sure someone knows already. With a clear un altered 1909 V.D.B. reverse. I have seen 1910's with what can be described as brushed over and out V.D.B. reverse.
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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,614 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I suspect there is an unattributed 1876-CC proof quarter out there somewhere.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1817 Texas Jola. 8000 authorized to be struck, and they probably were. Zero known.
    Andy Lustig

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  • tombrtombr Posts: 863 ✭✭
    A CC mint Barber Half, Quarter, or Dime
  • BearBear Posts: 18,954 ✭✭
    2010 coinage is unknown and rare now. However,

    in 2010, it will be known and collected by the masses.
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One I've been looking for for years and just might be out there
    is a 1976 type I/ II mule. The differences in the obverse designs
    are a little more subtle and likely to escape unnoticed. The mint
    technicians often inadvertantly leave an obverse or reverse die
    from the old year during switchovers so this just might be out
    there.

    Tempus fugit.
  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1909-O Indian Head Cent

    and

    1909-O V.D.B. Lincoln Cent

    Would make the 1909 mint set just a bit tougher than it already is image
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭


    << <i>2004 Lincoln cent. >>



    I think I might have one of those, do you think it's worth a lot of money? image

    Whoops, didn't realize this was a zombie thread.
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  • 1964 Franklin half.
  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1799 Dime
    1806 Dime
    1801 Quarter Eagle
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1994 W proof ASE..... Cheers, RickO
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,471 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1942 experimental cent in zinc coated/steel core, Judd 2054.

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