Super cool error in Heritage, but...
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...mostly I'm amused by the phrase "only 3 million".
__Undated 50C Franklin Half Dollar -- Struck on a 1948 Cent -- MS64 Brown NGC. Lavender and aqua hues embrace this fascinating mint error. The 1948 date from the cent is visible above Franklin's ear. Uncentered toward 2 o'clock, with only the 19 in the half dollar date present. The cent legends are flattened but ghostly apparent, as commonly seen on elongates. UNITED and IN GOD on the half dollar are stretched toward the edge and distorted, a characteristic associated with wrong planchet errors. Only 3 million 1948 Franklin halves were struck, which makes the likelihood of finding a similar double denomination error most unlikely. __
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Very cool error.
That is quite a beautiful and unique error. Wish those happened more today.
Later, Paul.
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Jeez, $4,600 with 13 days til live bidding! Curious to see what that brings.
Nice error from the picture cannot make out the 1948 cent date.
Squint and look again: it's right above Franklin's right ear.
Created intentionally correct?
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Dadgummit, Heritage, that slab is trashed! Polish it or get it reholdered.
Very cool coin, though.
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That is much lower than the 317.5 million 1948 Lincoln cents and 35 million Washington quarters that were struck.
No. Note the silvery color. To me this says that the struck cent got left in a hopper that then got filled with silver half dollar planchets, and it went through the annealing and washing processes where it picked up a light silver wash. This type of error does happen accidentally. Nobody could throw a struck coin into the process that far upstream of the coining press and expect to get it back later.
Very cool!
Heritage pointing out the mintage is utterly irrelevant with this coin, considering how few double-denom 50c on 1c exist for the Franklin series.
Interesting "error"
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That's a really nice error.
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Saved me the trouble of asking about the color! Thanks for that information!!
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Pass, bell lines look terrible.
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Here's a similar Franklin on a cent planchet without the silver wash.