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Does anyone understand what the seller is saying about this coin?

MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
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I looked and looked and could not see what this seller is speaking of when it comes to this Ike dollar. There is indeed nothing in the Wexler about what this seller is trying to explain. Can anyone else see what I maybe missing???image

Micheál

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  • EvilMCTEvilMCT Posts: 799 ✭✭✭
    If your question is concerning the picture, the arrows are pointing out what he's trying to describe. The rim is not complete. On the right side it is, but on the left it slow seems to spread outward. The lettering on the left seems to do the same. Notice the top of the L in LIBERTY is missing as are portions of the in god we trust and the date. I'm on the road, so I do not have my reference material available. But, broadstrike seems to be the right term for this type of error.

    Ken
    my knuckles, they bleed, on your front door
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Shoot me if I'm wrong, but that looks like wear and a crappy strike to me.
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  • TrooperTrooper Posts: 1,450 ✭
    I see wear and struck through grease.
    Basicaly what mgood says.

    Tom
  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    As for me I just couldn't see anything out of the ordinary about this coin. I thought maybe someone else could see something I was missing.

    Thanks
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    Omnicoin
  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    When i first saw it, it looked kinda like a... I think it was a canceled die Ike, that gandyjai showed me... But I thought the following comment was quite funny for someone who has reference materials about coins to not know this...



    << <i>I THINK THIS OCCURS WHEN COIN DOES NOT EJECT ITSELF IN TIME FOR NEXT BLANK >>



    image
    -George
    42/92
  • CopperDudeCopperDude Posts: 72
    looks like a 3 day auction, that the seller wants info on not to sell, the seller says he reserves right to pull aucton before last 12 hrs. Why bid it will get you nowhere. Just my thoughts
  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One possibility is that it was struck on a Type 1 planchet.

    Mike
    SmallDollars.com
    http://www.SmallDollars.com
  • HalfCentsHalfCents Posts: 129
    Okay, here's my best guess at a translation: "I have a piece of crap Ike with rim problems, and I'll bet if I conjure up some really technical double-talk, I can get a couple of suckers involved in a bidding war thinking they're gonna get a unique piece....."
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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    I know what he's talking about. He has misattributed it as a broadstruck error and the explaination in his description is slightly incorrect because really it's struck with filled dies.
    Nothing else.
    Of course he won't find it in wexler or wiles because filled dies are not a diagnostic of a die variety.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    Spend that sucker!
    I'm the Proud recipient of a genuine "you suck" award dated 1/24/05. I was accepted into the "Circle of Trust" on 3/9/09.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Many of us Ike collectors over at the forum feel that what you are seeing is a coin struck through grease. This is a common affect at the mint when too much grease gets into the dies. The grease gums up the dies which causes a weak or in-complete full strike. >>



    Apparently somebody eMailed him.

    Russ, NCNE
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