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Error? 1916 Buffalo

AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

Struck through cloth perhaps?
bob :)

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not struck thru cloth, imo.

    Doesn't look like a lamination, either.

    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FredWeinberg said:
    Not struck thru cloth, imo.

    Doesn't look like a lamination, either.

    So, you think post mint damage, Fred?

    bob :)

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2, 2018 8:32AM

    PMD. Very common. We think it's from a counting wheel. The clue is the circular shape and how it digs into the relief. IMO, the granular part of the coin is corrosion and not a mint error.

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:
    PMD. Very common. We think it's from a counting wheel. The clue is the circular shape and how it digs into the relief. IMO, the granular part of the coin is corrosion and not a mint error.

    Not the circular part but the 'corrosion" part is what was throwing me off. Just looked like it had a pattern to my eye and thought a scrap of cloth or such. Fred says no, so NO it is!!

    Just PMD I guess.

    bob :)

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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I vote for planchet flaw. The rest of the surfaces are just too nice and a distinct not blending separation between the 2 areas. Now if someone set out to do something like that purposely, if it could be done so well I would agree! I could also see it as a strike through....would have to be something mighty thin!

    @Insider2 said:
    PMD. Very common. We think it's from a counting wheel. The clue is the circular shape and how it digs into the relief. IMO, the granular part of the coin is corrosion and not a mint error.

  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes, I think it's damaged on those
    surface areas from about 6 to 9:00

    The 'texture' is wrong for a mint error
    planchet or striking event.

    Notice the rim in those areas are also
    'rough' - unlike the rest of the rims.

    Can't tell if it's from a counting machine
    wheel, liquid, or ? without seeing it in-hand.
    .

    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FredWeinberg said: "Notice the rim in those areas are also 'rough' - unlike the rest of the rims."

    That's what I saw. The rag would need to be in the die chamber and on the press bed.

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

    Looks like cloth to me. I can’t imagine how a counting wheel could have possibly created this. Yes I see the counting wheel mark but I’m pretty sure we’re looking at two issues here. JMO

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

    Not counting wheel. There is a counting weel mark thru Liberty tho

  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2, 2018 11:35AM

    Not counting wheel. There is a counting weel mark thru Liberty tho.

    Need way better photos, or it needs to be examined in hand by an expert.

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks all, I passed on it. Won't be getting it in hand to examine.

    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @crazyhounddog said:
    Looks like cloth to me. I can’t imagine how a counting wheel could have possibly created this. Yes I see the counting wheel mark but I’m pretty sure we’re looking at two issues here. JMO

    I think so too, Joe. Whatever the damage is it looks "textured". I also note the rim in the area of the problem. It "tends" to appear that something came between the die and the coin.

    There are only so many things that can be figured out from a picture.

    Pete

    "I tell them there's no problems.....only solutions" - John Lennon
  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Overexposure to Nic-a-Date, perhaps? Definitely has the look of having been corroded, whether by acid or another compound.

    Sean Reynolds

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  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think that's just a random patch of corrosion that's entirely unrelated to the counting wheel damage.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The effect is most prominent on the low points and barely visible as it gets into the high points of the braid. Not sure what that means, just an observation. It does appear to have a 'pattern' to it... This definitely needs to be evaluated in hand. Cheers, RickO

  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe jammed in one of these counters.

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

    @grip said:
    Maybe jammed in one of these counters.

    Man that's an old one or there's a lot of room for improvement.

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Vintage. And pretty cool looking.

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