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2ltdjorn2ltdjorn Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭
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Off-Metals, Multiple Struck, whatever you fancy... I am in the mood to window shop some outrageous errors.
WTB... errors, New Orleans gold, and circulated 20th key date coins!

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  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Erik
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,124 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Complete stainless steel feeding fingers, struck by dies for 1992-D White House commemorative silver dollar and 1992-D Columbus commemorative silver dollar.

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    Moonlight Mint
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow Dan, where do you find this stuff?, your not digging around in the dumpter behind the mint are youimage

    Steve
    Promote the Hobby
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,124 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow Dan, where do you find this stuff?, your not digging around in the dumpter behind the mint are youimage

    Steve >>



    They were in the wooden crate of spare parts that came with my Denver Mint suplus Grabener coin press which the government sold via GSA auction.

    So, in a way, yes.
    Moonlight Mint
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,124 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Moonlight Mint
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow.

    Awesome '72 Dan!
    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.



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  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,540 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not exactly outrageous but due to the nature of the error, the coin is FB...which is cool considering very few non-error specimens are FB for this date.
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    2007-S 25C Wyoming 90% Silver Proof NGC PF69 Ultra Cameo.

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    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,540 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Broadstruck can play this game all day, every day for a very long time. image
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
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  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,921 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    I think there have been coins slabbed that were struck on washers or scraps.
    So I wonder if those feeder fingers can get slabbed as coins since they were struck?
    I don't see a distinction that says they aren't coins struck on feeder fingers.

    They'll have trouble finding a big enough slab, I doubt they'd fit in a puck slab. I wonder what they'd say if you sent them for grading, they look high grade too!

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    Ed
  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image >>



    WOW... This is a super coin for sure!

    Erik
  • goodmoney4badmoneygoodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • ThePennyLadyThePennyLady Posts: 4,495 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's been a while since I've posted this little guy...

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  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,048 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can play....but I cannot compete. image

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  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    The controversial one... Error or not?

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    President, Racine Numismatic Society 2013-2014; Variety Resource Dimes; See 6/8/12 CDN for my article on Winged Liberty Dimes; Ebay

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,540 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mint screw-ups....


    Well I guess anyone can post a pic of one of those God-awful Eisenhower monstrosities.
    Now that was a screw-up.

    Oh and fcloud
    Not

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    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,540 ✭✭✭✭✭
    fcloud, that is not an error and you know it. It is an awesome variety, the 1936/28-S! A much stronger variety than so many other varieties that are widely accepted. image
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
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  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    i was gonna just post a couple images but i stumbled across this in my archives right at the end of looking.

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  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Hoard the keys.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,618 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    'scuse the crappy photography... not my forte'

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  • LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭
    Hey what's the big deal with the 1990 Lincoln? OK here's one of mine:

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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,124 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hey what's the big deal with the 1990 Lincoln?

    << <i>

    It is a proof, without the "S" mint mark.
    Moonlight Mint
  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Clash with the FE cent.
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    Larry

  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wish I had new ones to share, but until then ...

    1875-CC Broadstrike
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    1876 Double struck in collar
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    And one of my favorite, non-double dime errors ... a "blow hole"
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of my favorites image

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    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,257 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image
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    i like image
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Hey what's the big deal with the 1990 Lincoln?

    << <i>

    It is a proof, without the "S" mint mark. >>



    I was going to ask the same question. It's very clear now!! And very cool!!
    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Hey what's the big deal with the 1990 Lincoln?

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    It is a proof, without the "S" mint mark. >>



    I was going to ask the same question. It's very clear now!! And very cool!! >>



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    Erik
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow - a lot of great errors posted. image

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  • ConstantineConstantine Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow.

    Awesome '72 Dan! >>



    I know, good grief that is sweet!
  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭
    Might as well test the new photobucket. [edit: grrrrr] [edit 2: grrrrrrrrrrr] [edit 3: getting there]

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  • 2ltdjorn2ltdjorn Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭
    Pancake!

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    WTB... errors, New Orleans gold, and circulated 20th key date coins!
  • CoinspongeCoinsponge Posts: 3,927 ✭✭✭


    << <i>imageimage >>




    I did not know Picasso did coin designs.image
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  • goodmoney4badmoneygoodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have always wondered when seeing these feeder fingers about the Columbus example. The White House shows a misalignment that could be expected, where the dies struck the finger along the inside of the planchet/coin circular feed opening and a planchet present would be mostly struck by the dies. The Columbus has the strike outside of this opening that would require the dies to be so radically out of place that they wouldn't strike a planchet at all. As the owner of the press that these were created by, can you possibly shed some light on how this difference in the two fingers could occur?



    << <i>Complete stainless steel feeding fingers, struck by dies for 1992-D White House commemorative silver dollar and 1992-D Columbus commemorative silver dollar.

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,071 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

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    I did not know Picasso did coin designs.image >>



    He did!! Just hard to find... image
    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,124 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have always wondered when seeing these feeder fingers about the Columbus example. The White House shows a misalignment that could be expected, where the dies struck the finger along the inside of the planchet/coin circular feed opening and a planchet present would be mostly struck by the dies. The Columbus has the strike outside of this opening that would require the dies to be so radically out of place that they wouldn't strike a planchet at all. As the owner of the press that these were created by, can you possibly shed some light on how this difference in the two fingers could occur?



    << <i>Complete stainless steel feeding fingers, struck by dies for 1992-D White House commemorative silver dollar and 1992-D Columbus commemorative silver dollar.

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    The dies were not out of position when these feeding fingers were struck.
    It was the feeding fingers that were out of position. The feeding fingers are mounted on a "turntable" which rotates. And if that rotation is out-of-sync, they can get struck. Of course, various mechanisms are in place to prevent such an occurence. A jam in the turntable will shut the machine down. But if an individual finger becomes loose, the machine has no way to detect that automatically.

    Here is a picture of the turntable with feeding fingers (the upper die would be mounted in the orange thing on the right):
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    Moonlight Mint
  • goodmoney4badmoneygoodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for the explanation and picture Dan, very interesting.
  • TwobitcollectorTwobitcollector Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The cud & struck thru found in change the off center I bought raw in 2001. Gotta love the slabs!!

    Thanks to Dan Carr for sharing!!
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  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now imagine that little piggy sticking his head out the car window in that commercial screaming WEEEEEEEEEE
    This is a yet undeclared new discovery coin that I have 4 examples of, one is in a 65 slab not labeled with any variety.
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    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • MFHMFH Posts: 11,720 ✭✭✭✭





    One of my favorites - its unique for the Quarter series.




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