Check out what I made today!! Error and counter-strike guys, come look!

coinkid855

I made this in the Minting Mayhem mini-seminar at the ANA Convention today! =D It contains around 10 blanks. I actually forgot to photograph the other side, sorry!









And here's some others I did tonight.



































-Paul

Type2

Way cool.

edix2001

Just like the old Gallery Mint Museum at Summer Seminar -- stamping every scrap of metal in the place!

Raybob15239

Did you realize that you just obliterated a couple of high value Morgan and Peace VAMs????




(You did determine that they weren't high interest VAMs before doing that, right?)

Broadstruck

Smittys

Although Cool they are not errors, they were made intentionaly .
Errors are just that, an error. Although a few in the market place were probably made for fun at the mint.

edix2001

Indeed they are not errors, but an educational way to show how errors are made.
This is called the "Minting Mayhem" mini-seminar, run by Badger Mint. They are following on the footsteps of when Gallery Mint Museum ran the "Creative Errors" mini-seminar several years back, as witnessed by the designs below (noticed backwards 3rd "R" in "ERRORS"):

2002


2003


and here are the scraps:

coinkid855

Cool coins!


-Paul

airplanenut

I remember going nuts with the Gallery Mint equipment at the Seminar a few years back, too. I got a better appreciation for how errors come to be, and some neat mementos.

morgandollar1878

Those are really cool. I did frown a little though when I saw the morgan and peace dollars. I guess the good thing is that they are common dates and look like circulated pieces.

frnklnlvr

<< <i>Did you realize that you just obliterated a couple of high value Morgan and Peace VAMs????




(You did determine that they weren't high interest VAMs before doing that, right?) >>



The second 1923 looks like VAM 1X. Not sure about the others.

coinkid855

I looked them up before I struck them. They're nothing special. Just average AU/BU dollars.




-Paul

dcarr

When I conducted an open house for local coin club members at my Moonlight Mint,
I instructed everyone to bring a common legal tender US dollar coin to stamp over.
While I was busy doing the stamping, my helper was "rimming" the coins (reducing
the diameter so that large dollar coins would fit in the 38mm collar).

Anyway, when an older gentleman came up to the press with his rimmed Morgan dollar
for over-striking, I noticed that it was an 1880 VAM-1A "Knobbed 8". Those are fairly rare
and this one was a late die state to boot. Too bad it had already been destroyed by the rimming.
Oh well, the only thing to do at that point was to obliterate it (full obverse/reverse 250-ton over-strike).
The good news was that it was a low-grade (G) specimen, like most of this VAM

edix2001

Daniel,
I've seen you use the term "rimming" a few times. What is the process? Is it squeezing the circumference of the coin, like turning a blank into a planchet with an upset mill? Or are you slicing off some metal to decrease the diameter?

Zoins

Just ran across this. Very cool cluster @coinkid855!

I would love to make one of these!

Hemispherical

Cool!

Post to remind.

thisistheshow

Very cool indeed!

dcarr

@edix2001 said:
Daniel,
I've seen you use the term "rimming" a few times. What is the process? Is it squeezing the circumference of the coin, like turning a blank into a planchet with an upset mill? Or are you slicing off some metal to decrease the diameter?

I missed this thread the first time around.

By "rimming" I mean upset mill - to reduce the diameter slightly and to raise the rims a little bit prior to striking.

dagingerbeasttt

That's pretty neat, I'm curious are there any seminars like that or ANA clubs indiana?

ricko

Oh those poor coins.... Cheers, RickO