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goodmoney4badmoney
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I love off metals, and here's one I just got back from PCGS today. It's 100% aluminum.
I took these pictures under my stovelight on a cheaper digital camera
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I took these pictures under my stovelight on a cheaper digital camera
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1944-P
<< <i>here's one I just got back from PCGS today. It's 100% aluminum >>
If I saw that one on ebay raw I probably would have thought it was an incomplete planchet.
What's the story behind it??
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<< <i>here's one I just got back from PCGS today. It's 100% aluminum >>
If I saw that one on ebay raw I probably would have thought it was an incomplete planchet.
What's the story behind it?? >>
Funny you say that because I bought it raw on eBay. The San Francisco Mint struck proof coins in limited quantity (a few thousand or so for each date) for Nepal from 1970 - 1975. The partial date looks like 1970 but a mintmark should be visible if it's an S-mint. It could be a 1976, but that would pretty much eliminate it being SF-mint coin for that particular date, so maybe the planchet wandered....I don't really know.
Here is a clad nickel ....
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Another Gold Indian Head Cent PCGS
These are my favorite off-metal mint errors in my current inventory.
heritage, $37K
and the gold ones are cooler
Struck on 40% silver planchet
and i have 2 more in the mail now.
I would show it to Fred Weinberg to see what he thinks. Great error though, and one of my favorite types of nickel off-metals!
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boiler78...WOW! That is stunning!
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<< <i>goodmoney4bad, I am pretty sure your coin is not on a Nepal planchet, but is on a 1976 Philippine 1 sentimo. I've owned 2 or 3 of them, and they look like your coin, with at least 1 of the edges showing a flat area. The weight is correct for being on a 1976 Philippine 1 sentimo, at 18.5 grains. Here is a link to what the Philippine coin looks like---> http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2447.html
I would show it to Fred Weinberg to see what he thinks. Great error though, and one of my favorite types of nickel off-metals! >>
I submitted the coin to PCGS as a 1976 Philippine sentimo planchet, and this is how I got it back.
Link to a 1979 Kennedy struck on Anthony dollar blank I saw recently on eBay.
Not mine!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCGS-OFF-METAL-ERROR-1979-KENNEDY-HALF-STRUCK-ON-SUSAN-B-ANTHONY-DOLLAR-PLANCHET-/181107843332?
<< <i>Link to a 1979 Kennedy struck on Anthony dollar blank I saw recently on eBay.
Not mine!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCGS-OFF-METAL-ERROR-1979-KENNEDY-HALF-STRUCK-ON-SUSAN-B-ANTHONY-DOLLAR-PLANCHET-/181107843332?
Linkified.
I recently bought my first off-metal, a 1960 cent on a dime planchet. It sold in a Heritage auction back in January in an NGC holder net graded AU, then for some reason the buyer cracked it out and put it on eBay. I wound up winning it for about 20% less than the Heritage hammer price. I'll try to post pics soon.
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Not bad.. not bad at all!
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<< <i>Found this in a bag of nickels i was looking at 1962-P's.
found in a bag? can't beat that!