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Lamination error? 1970 quarter

Is this considered a lamination error? Does is add value to the quarter?




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  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭✭✭

    looks like one i'll let the experts chime in

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,835 ✭✭✭✭✭

    yes

    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, it does appear to be a lamination error. Excellent pictures...the edge picture really helps... Cheers, RickO

  • MedalCollectorMedalCollector Posts: 1,998 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 9, 2018 8:30AM

    Absolutely not! It was struck-through a rim burr. It does add value; I would say somewhere around $5.

    Very cool error coin. And WELCOME to the forum @KD47!

    Edit: I guess this could be considered a (de)lamination error of sorts, but it isn't as descriptive as the above error attribution.

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,526 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What we old timer error experts called a "rolled-fold error," or a "rim burr error," and to the best of my knowledge nobody has come up with a better term.

    When the cut blank went through the upsetting mill, the mill caught the edge of the blank and partially sheared off a long, pointy "rim burr" that remained attached to the (now) planchet and got pushed in at an angle. It remained there through the striking and got struck into the coin, leaving the long tapered indent. The other void above the base of the indent is where the metal got sheared off of the blank.

    After the coin was struck the burr fell out, leaving the long, pointy indent.

    TD

    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.
  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would call it a lamination and struck thru error, probably by the delaminated piece.

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,518 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You couldn't have explained it better, Tom. That's what the late Allen Herbert used to call it.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • scooter25scooter25 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭✭

    Cool!! Welcome!!

  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome!

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