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MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
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Pictures posted here!!!
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    Nice pics and layout. Cool coins too. image
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  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Great page!image They look better in the slabs!

    Cameron Kiefer
  • proofman48proofman48 Posts: 63
    Those are some nice coins. That's what my sister collects!image
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Even non collectors would have to agree! imageimageimage

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  • TassaTassa Posts: 2,373 ✭✭
    Cool. image
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  • eyoung429eyoung429 Posts: 6,374 ✭
    Awesome layout Marty!!!
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  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭
    Those are great looking coins and very educational. I'm showing some to people at work and trying to tell them how they came about. What I don't know I just make up. "...and when the mint was trying to shrink the (broadstuck) Jefferson, it exploded....."image

    Joe
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    TTT for the afternoon crew!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    Afternoon crew? Its not even 8am on the West coast and barely 11am on the East coast!

    Cameron Kiefer
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    Neato image
  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭
    But it's 5 o'clock somewhere.image

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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>But it's 5 o'clock somewhere. >>



    Damn Right!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • GandyjaiGandyjai Posts: 1,380 ✭✭
    image Awesome!.....I really like the Quarter on a penny planchet!image

    Brian
  • proofman48proofman48 Posts: 63


    << <i>But it's 5 o'clock somewhere. >>



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  • errormavenerrormaven Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭
    Your "Lincoln 1C Obverse Struck Thru Capped Die" appears to be a clashed cap strike. An already-formed obverse die cap struck the reverse die directly, picking up a fresh impression of the reverse design and transferred it to the next planchet (your coin).

    That bust of Lincoln I see is probably a ghost image bleeding through the thin metal of the cap. However, it might also be a counterbrockage. Look closely at the obverse with a 10X lens. If you see greatly enlarged letters of LIBERTY and numbers of the date running off the edge, then it's a counterbrockage.

    Counterbrockage/clashed cap strikes are much rarer and much more valuable than ordinary clashed cap strikes.

    In either case, while NGC's description is accurate as far as it goes, it is hopelessly non-specific. But that's par for the course for grading services.
    Mike Diamond is an error coin writer and researcher. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those held by any organization I am a member of.
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Errormaven, please turn on your PM or send me an E-Mail at martykuklinski@hotmail.com

    Thanks
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • jonesyjonesy Posts: 5,031
    Really nice mint error collection!! image

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  • shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    Did you get a 75% grading discount on this one? Very cool image

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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Those clipped cents are cool...... image
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  • jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Your "Lincoln 1C Obverse Struck Thru Capped Die" appears to be a clashed cap strike. An already-formed obverse die cap struck the reverse die directly, picking up a fresh impression of the reverse design and transferred it to the next planchet (your coin). >>



    I've never heard the term "clashed cap", although I understand what you mean. Google doesn't find any references either. Have you seen that term used elsewhere?



    << <i>In either case, while NGC's description is accurate as far as it goes, it is hopelessly non-specific. But that's par for the course for grading services. >>



    Tell me about it! I sent in a gorgeous counterbrockage Washington that also came back as "struck through capped die". Well, yeah, it was, but come on! (at least it did come back as 65). When was the last time you saw a counterbrockage on a Washington (or on anything other than a Lincoln, for that matter), and they couldn't manage to label it properly. Argh!



    Marty -- there's a chance that I have a another coin struck by this same cap. On mine, the dies were set up with a slight rotation, which made the memorial get tilted at an angle relative to Lincoln. Hard to tell from the pic, but that's what yours looks like also, and by a similar amount. Could you do me a favor and check yours to see if there's a die crack running from the rim up the left leg of the N in "cent", and then towards the memorial? Probably not, but wouldn't that be wild?

    jonathan

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