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New Staples Easy Button Promo?

DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭
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Is this some kind of botched mint experiment or a pattern 1948 5-cent piece? imageimage


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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks unc. image
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think a staple got caught in the coining chamber and the coins just stacked up on it.

    I think it's worth about $5000 for each of them. Is it better to separate them or sell them in one place?
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I think a staple got caught in the coining chamber and the coins just stacked up on it.

    I think it's worth about $5000 for each of them. Is it better to separate them or sell them in one place? >>



    I was leaning toward the strike-through theory myself. I do appreciate your value assessment though. imageimage

    Edited: image I might have to "crack" 'em out of that staple to sell them individually. I wonder what grade I could get if I submitted them to PCGS? I can't believe they'd BB 'em no cleaning or altered surfaces. Clearly a struck-through phenomenon that can only be attrributed as a Mint Original! image
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,821 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I think a staple got caught in the coining chamber and the coins just stacked up on it.

    I think it's worth about $5000 for each of them. Is it better to separate them or sell them in one place? >>



    I was leaning toward the strike-through theory myself. I do appreciate your value assessment though. imageimage

    Edited: image I might have to "crack" 'em out of that staple to sell them individually. I wonder what grade I could get if I submitted them to PCGS? I can't believe they'd BB 'em no cleaning or altered surfaces. Clearly a struck-through phenomenon that can only be attrributed as a Mint Original! image >>




    The advantage of separating them is that Fred W would also give an extra $5000 for the staple too.

    We really need some more input here. ...Maybe a bidding war would be just the ticket.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    post mint damageimage

    haha
  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭


    << <i>
    The advantage of separating them is that Fred W would also give an extra $5000 for the staple too.

    We really need some more input here. ...Maybe a bidding war would be just the ticket. >>



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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An impressive "Five Piece Bonded Set",
    with Original Mint Staple.

    I'd buy it, but it wouldn't fit in a slab......

    I think I could probably sell it for over $10K
    to a large corporation as their new Logo ....


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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,309 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the stapler on my desk won't go through 5 sheets of paper image
  • seahawkfanseahawkfan Posts: 105 ✭✭
    Thats the new nickel that they are testing.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,821 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>the stapler on my desk won't go through 5 sheets of paper image >>



    ...Proof positive that it's a real mint error. What stapler could get that nice neat crimp
    on the tail too?
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • combatmailmancombatmailman Posts: 670
    Thats a cool piece!!image
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  • yellowjacketyellowjacket Posts: 1,809 ✭
    You gotsta put that in your "special collection."

    Very cool. Very "original."

    Garrow
  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭


    << <i>An impressive "Five Piece Bonded Set",
    with Original Mint Staple.

    I'd buy it, but it wouldn't fit in a slab......

    I think I could probably sell it for over $10K
    to a large corporation as their new Logo ....


    ..............STAPLES............ >>



    image Perhaps I should take this up with the BST board. $10K...Any large Corporation out there looking for a unique Logo? The One and Only "Five Piece Bonded Set" no less! Inquire within... image

    BTW I hear that PCGS has engineered a new slab to show the edge of the new Presidential dollars. I have to beleive that they could engineer a slab for the "Five Piece Bonded Set". With original issue mint bonding staple device included. image
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  • buffnutbuffnut Posts: 933
    Rejected nickel design image

    Looks to me like a novelty item, or perhaps a "demo" for an industrial stapler or binding machine of sorts?

    Dunno for sure, but it is neat!
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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    Is this the same one that was posted a month or so ago or are more than one of these showing up? If so, I want one. --Jerry
  • DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Rejected nickel design image

    Looks to me like a novelty item, or perhaps a "demo" for an industrial stapler or binding machine of sorts?

    Dunno for sure, but it is neat! >>



    As Notwilight points out I've posted this a few other times on these boards. You're not the first to propose the Big A$$ Stapler-of-the-Year theory! imageimage

    I like to think it's an experimental Mint piece. Perhaps even the replacement for the Jefferson Nickel. Or even the elusive rare "Five Piece Bonded Set". image

    Edited to add: Fred if Staples is truly interested this could augment their famous EASY Button campaign! image We could launch it as the kick A$$ Staple of the year trick and such. Anything is possible with Staples Easy Button, see?! image
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  • TexastTexast Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭✭
    Is that what they call a "Plug Nickel"image
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