Amazingly cool error - $15k

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 4:28AM

  Incredible 4 Coin Set Of Bonded Dimes With Cent On Dime Planchet On Top!!
  
  Never offered for sale is this amazing 4 coin bonded set of dimes with as you can see a cent planchette atop this cluster of dimes. The piece weighs in at 9 grams. Equal to 4 dimes at 2.23g. Incredible luster and sure to be a high grade and guaranteed genuine as I've showed this to a major error dealer not long ago. This is for the serious error collector.
  
  
  So in non EBay mobile English it's a reverse Lincoln Memorial cent die cap stuck on 4 clad dime planchets

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

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• AUandAG Posts: 24,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 4:38AM

  I don't understand how that could have been made at the Mint. I see that it looks legit but
  I also surmise that it was an employee fooling around on the late shift. What are the odds
  that this could have happened just by circumstance?
  
  
  bob

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• stealer Posts: 4,035 ✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 4:44AM

  I've heard stories of YN's on the Denver Mint tours when they used to offer floor tours throwing in loose change into the wrong bins just to force out errors

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• ctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 4:46AM

  
  
  << <i> Incredible 4 Coin Set Of Bonded Dimes With Cent On Dime Planchet On Top!!
  
  Never offered for sale is this amazing 4 coin bonded set of dimes with as you can see a cent planchette atop this cluster of dimes. The piece weighs in at 9 grams. Equal to 4 dimes at 2.23g. Incredible luster and sure to be a high grade and guaranteed genuine as I've showed this to a major error dealer not long ago. This is for the serious error collector.
  
  
  So in non EBay mobile English it's a reverse Lincoln Memorial cent die cap stuck on 4 clad dime planchets >>
  
  
  
  LOL, good one bs, the description certainly needs to be fixed.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 4:46AM

  
  
  << <i>I don't understand how that could have been made at the Mint. I see that it looks legit but
  I also surmise that it was an employee fooling around on the late shift. What are the odds
  that this could have happened just by circumstance? >>
  
  
  
  I've got a $100M Powerball lottery ticket in my pocket with about the same odds

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 4:48AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <i> Incredible 4 Coin Set Of Bonded Dimes With Cent On Dime Planchet On Top!!
  
  Never offered for sale is this amazing 4 coin bonded set of dimes with as you can see a cent planchette atop this cluster of dimes. The piece weighs in at 9 grams. Equal to 4 dimes at 2.23g. Incredible luster and sure to be a high grade and guaranteed genuine as I've showed this to a major error dealer not long ago. This is for the serious error collector.
  
  
  So in non EBay mobile English it's a reverse Lincoln Memorial cent die cap stuck on 4 clad dime planchets >>
  
  
  
  LOL, good one bs, the description certainly needs to be fixed. >>
  
  
  
  Yeah for a for a $15K error the seller could have pulled over and not just posted the listing while stopped for a red light!

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

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• lasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 4:51AM

  what a "minty mess" this one is
  
  would add to this drama if graders had to grade this...i can hear it now in the grading room..."uh boss...need help on isle #4 over here"

  everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see
  
  
  

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,926 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 5:01AM

  Stop by my ANA/PNG Pre-Show Table,
  and the same table during ANA Week.
  
  

  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.

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• gonzer Posts: 3,053 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 5:08AM

  
  
  << <i>Stop by my ANA/PNG Pre-Show Table,
  and the same table during ANA Week. >>
  
  
  
  That sounds ominous Fred.

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,926 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 6:14AM

  No meant to be ominous,
  but inviting - some things
  need to be seen in person.
  

  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.

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• LanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 6:53AM

  
  
  << <i>Four Car Pile-Up
  
  So is $15k a good place to start on this? It is not certified though, wonder if it would fit in a fat holder? >>
  
  
  
  submit an offer of $500, ya never know. that is what the OBO option is for
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• goodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 7:03AM

  I know this seller personally, I'm going to have to get the scoop about this one.

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• errormaven Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 9:09AM

  It's a bonded pile-up involving four dime planchets that made their way into a press that was striking cents. I see nothing that would indicate it is anything other than a mint product. As to whether it had an assist, there's no way to be sure. It is highly improbable as a spontaneous error, but not impossible.
  
  The strong cupping on the die-struck reverse face would indicate that the reverse die was functioning as the hammer die. That setup is mainly associated with Schuler presses, and these have not been generous in producing bonded coins.

  Mike Diamond is an error coin writer and researcher. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those held by any organization I am a member of.

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• WoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭

  July 16, 2012 9:38AM

  Something is amiss here...

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