Name a coin that's currently unknown but could easily be discovered...
MrEureka
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Examples:
1873-S Seated dollar
1931 Standing Liberty quarter
1895 business strike Morgan dollar
1804 business strike Bust dollar struck in 1804
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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Russ, NCNE
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1841-O half eagle
1916 liberty head proof quarter
1921-S proof liberty head dollar
1804 half dollar
1959 wheat cent
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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...
think that might be possible....
<< <i>1972 (or is it 1974) aluminum Lincoln cent >>
The aluminum cent was 1974
1982 SBA?
Or even just clashed with a cent die. Or a mule. Anything.
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1916 liberty head proof quarter
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There were around 5 of these made,I'm not sure if any are recorded of.
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?
I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.
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Cameron Kiefer
dragon
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
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)
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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<< <i>Simple...
The last of 8 different 1982 cent varieties (1982D small date copper) >>
Sure. That's a gimme.
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1973 steel-copper clad cent (actually made, all destroyed)
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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?
Anyone think or know if something like that could happen.
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<< <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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1972-P type 4 Ike dollars
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.
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.
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in 2010, it will be known and collected by the masses.
Camelot
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.
and
1909-O V.D.B. Lincoln Cent
Would make the 1909 mint set just a bit tougher than it already is
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<< <i>2004 Lincoln cent. >>
I think I might have one of those, do you think it's worth a lot of money?
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