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2008-W UNC ASE Question? ? ?

halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
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Just received my '08-W Burnished ASE order and noticed that it has the new style obverse paired with the old style reverse.
Anyone else notice this?

What reason would the mint have to continue to use the reverse with the old font when the '08 Proofs and non-MM ASEs have the new reverse?

Regards,

John

Edited . . .

http://ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?IDArticle=1016

Dang, don't know how to make the link work.

John


Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    COINB0YCOINB0Y Posts: 4,505
    Die Hub Change for all Silver Eagles in 2008

    Good Thread on the Subject


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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    check the font on the reverse;

    isn't there a "foot" on the U in the reverse?

    it's new too.


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    mach19mach19 Posts: 4,002 ✭✭
    The box that I opened all have the new reverse
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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    That's correct but there was also a reverse hub font change for the '08s.
    Compare the "U" in United on the '08 Proofs or no MM ASEs with an '07 then ck. the '08 rev.
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    The two that I received have no "leg" on the "U" of United.
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    I've got all the 08's. What are you talking about?

    I've got all three types of 08 ASEs and they're all the same obv and rev., bullion, proof, burnished unc, all the same new font, new style, etc.
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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    The reverse on these '08-Ws are identical to the 2007-W rev.

    Leftover dies a possibility?

    Sure hope some more folks find this so ya'll don't think that I've absoutely lost it. image
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    take a pic

    please




    edit: It's been my contention that sooner or later the mint would realize their capitalization error and we'd have us a new low mintage coin this year when they rushed to create a coin with corrections.



    first question about use of lower case
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    57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    some of the 2007 annual dollar sets (XA1) have the 2008 re~design with 2007 date, that's been some of the reason for the hold-up on shipments. Congress needs to okay it and are debating about using them for the economic stimulus plan.


    j/k (obviously)

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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    2008- ASE Reverse:

    image

    I took a quick picture of the reverse. This is the first time I've tried to upload a pic here.
    Hope it worked .

    Edited - Didn't know that it would be so big. Sorry for the blur, but didn't set up the tripod.
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    good photo...better than mine, with a 'pod....

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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    image

    This is the obverse. Another freehand shot with this cheap little Coolpix point & shoot.

    As you can see, this is the new design '08 die, matched with an old style reverse die.
    They are not all like this?

    Regards,

    John
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    mach19mach19 Posts: 4,002 ✭✭
    No... they are not
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    DuPapaDuPapa Posts: 495 ✭✭

    To me it looks like you have a winner.

    I think the mint does things like this on purpose to increase interest and sales.
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    Rupert305Rupert305 Posts: 557
    As soon as mine arrive I'll check them also. They've been in transit for about 2 weeks now.
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    Way to go! I'm so glad someone got an ASE with an upper case U in UNITED.

    Now, which is going to be the lower mintage, the original lower case variety or the upper case one? Did the Mint intentionally correct this or wtf, over? Maybe I'm imagining all this.
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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    So I guess there will now be 2008-W T-1 & T-2?
    Or reverse of 07 & rev. of 08. image
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
    Here is my 2008 W

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    And here is the 08 reverse by the 07 reverse

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    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
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    19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,472 ✭✭✭✭
    Looks like it to me!

    Dang! Never get anything good from the mint!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
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    RayNY2ERayNY2E Posts: 438


    << <i>2008- ASE Reverse:

    image

    I took a quick picture of the reverse. This is the first time I've tried to upload a pic here.
    Hope it worked .

    Edited - Didn't know that it would be so big. Sorry for the blur, but didn't set up the tripod. >>


    Nice Little Die Rotation On This Reverse. Too bad it is'nt enough for the Designation.. Ray in Florida.. image
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    yeah, all six of my ASEs have lower case U's.

    If halfhunter isn't kidding us, this may be the find I've expected since January, a correction by the Mint.



    link to jsf thread on this forum about lower case U use by mint - 01/08
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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    I was was hopeing someone would post an '08 w/the "new" rev.

    The two that I got are definately the '07 type rev.

    Just thinking, bet this would make a neat multi-holder set.

    Regards,

    John
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great catch!
    Hope it makes the 2009 Redbook!
    Oh, wait, they already published it...........
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    wanna sell one? imageimage
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    rgCoinGuyrgCoinGuy Posts: 7,478 ✭
    I still wasn't sure what you guys were talking about until I read this thread twice (and after I posted my pics), now I see what we are looking for!
    imageQuid pro quo. Yes or no?
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    HonoluluDudeHonoluluDude Posts: 2,167 ✭
    Now everyone's gonna order a bunch to see if they can find the lucky "U" Eagle.
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    yeah rg, I couldn't believe the Mint used a lower case U. They've used one for a while, various places. Check back on the regular Washies versus the spaghetti-hair Washies. I believe there was a change in the fonts used on the quarter somewhere in that period.

    This use in UNITED on the 2008 ASE is/was just flat wrong, IMHO.
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    yeah Dude, but which is going to be the lower mintage? upper case or lower case?
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    HonoluluDudeHonoluluDude Posts: 2,167 ✭
    I wonder if this "error" is on the regular bullion 2008 ASEs as well?
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    It looks like someone typed UNITED STATES OF AMERICA with their caps lock pressed.

    uNITED STATES OF AMERICA



    Maybe that's what they're teaching our kids these days!
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    Dude, they're (lower case U) on all six of the ASEs I've received.
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,550 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>yeah rg, I couldn't believe the Mint used a lower case U. They've used one for a while, various places. Check back on the regular Washies versus the spaghetti-hair Washies. I believe there was a change in the fonts used on the quarter somewhere in that period.

    This use in UNITED on the 2008 ASE is/was just flat wrong, IMHO. >>



    They've been using that same "U" for ten years on the state quarters. Chill.
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    HonoluluDudeHonoluluDude Posts: 2,167 ✭


    << <i>Dude, they're (lower case U) on all six of the ASEs I've received. >>

    when did you order them? they were back ordered for weeks.
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    Sorry, I don't do quarters usually, ...didn't notice it 'til the 08 ASEs.

    It's still inappropriate spelling, IMHO, but that never stopped anyone around here.



    edit: I mean the use of the lower case in TRuST on the quarters. I didn't even think of the use of a lower case U in UNITED, at the time I noticed the TRuST.
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    jsfjsf Posts: 1,889
    These six of mine are all from my yearly standing order. 2 of each.
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    pmacpmac Posts: 3,189 ✭✭✭
    Seems like the 'u' in trust on the obverse has the same kind of schizophrenia as the reverse.
    Paul
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,550 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Seems like the 'u' in trust on the obverse has the same kind of schizophrenia as the reverse. >>



    Yes, but since the dates are on the hubs you are not going to find a 2008 coin with the obverse style of 2007.
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    pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,504 ✭✭✭
    The stars are larger and closer together also on the 08s. Be nice if you found the larger and closer stars on a 07 that I believe would make them special more so than the U.
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    mach19mach19 Posts: 4,002 ✭✭
    This would explain why the mint boxes were opened in the shipping box ? image
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,550 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>This would explain why the mint boxes were opened in the shipping box ? image >>



    What are you talking about?
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    mach19mach19 Posts: 4,002 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>This would explain why the mint boxes were opened in the shipping box ? image >>



    What are you talking about? >>




    I purchased 5 ASE's X 5 to have for first strike. I opened one box & the Blue boxes inside were apart with the top cover on the bottom with the coin exposed.
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    mach19mach19 Posts: 4,002 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Seems like the 'u' in trust on the obverse has the same kind of schizophrenia as the reverse. >>



    Yes, but since the dates are on the hubs you are not going to find a 2008 coin with the obverse style of 2007. >>





    Don't be so sure about that. The mint is not 100% error free
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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    Just spoke with Mr. Eric von Klinger at Coin World.

    I'm Fed-Exing one of these to them to photograph.
    Trying to get it there before the cut-off for the next edition.

    image
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    pf70collectorpf70collector Posts: 6,504 ✭✭✭
    I wonder if any have been slabbed yet as First Strike Designation and not identified if a variety is ever assigned.


    purchased 5 ASE's X 5 to have for first strike. I opened one box & the Blue boxes inside were apart with the top cover on the bottom with the coin exposed.

    I have two unopend boxes of 5 that are really rattling around. So I think I have the same problem, but don't want to open them yet.
    Montana State Quarter Die Clash

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    mach19mach19 Posts: 4,002 ✭✭


    << <i>I wonder if any have been slabbed yet as First Strike Designation and not identified if a variety is ever assigned.


    purchased 5 ASE's X 5 to have for first strike. I opened one box & the Blue boxes inside were apart with the top cover on the bottom with the coin exposed.

    I have two unopend boxes of 5 that are really rattling around. So I think I have the same problem, but don't want to open them yet. >>




    The coins were LOCKED in, You need a crowbar to get them out!!!!
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    SUMORADASUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭
    Its funny, the pic on the US Mint site shows a 2008 with the reverse of a 2007................

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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    That's funny.
    The obverse also looks like the old design, only with the date changed.
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    jerryf43jerryf43 Posts: 174
    my 6 are lower case u//
    Jerryf43
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    LongshotLongshot Posts: 353
    just searched 62 08 (non W) eagles. All lower case.
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    HonoluluDudeHonoluluDude Posts: 2,167 ✭


    << <i>just searched 62 08 (non W) eagles. All lower case. >>

    Maybe there's more of the lower case U type than the correct type, lol.

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