Anyone have some images of a **ROLLED EDGE** error coin?

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Insider2
Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I've heard of these but would like to see some examples please

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  • Whitney77
    Whitney77 Posts: 12 ✭
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    Think I've heard of it too, but sorry nothing from me... I'd like to see one myself so far all I've found is the usual (die cracks/cuds) I did find a nickel with doubled America as well as one that appears to have been in the beginning of being made into a ring but someone decided it was too much work... I've been at this I guess a year and have recently gotten a bit more in depth since I've learned more... so the doubled nickel I guess was my first 'big' find on my own (I have an older relative who has a major collection so I've learned some from him but mostly googling examples of error coins)

  • lkeigwin
    lkeigwin Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @insider2, can you describe the error?

    I'm sure you're not talking about coins whose edges have been rolled from tumbling around a dryer (since they're not errors).

    Nor are you wondering about roll-wrapping flaws. (I have a nice example.)

    Are you referring to errors from rolling mills?
    Lance.

    Coin Photography Services / Everyman Registry set / BHNC #213
  • RogerB
    RogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The term "rolled edge" was falsely applied to some 1907 Saint-Gaudens Eagles that have a normal rim compared to the knife rim found on the small number of pieces with periods on the reverse.

    This false term comes from --- drum roll srerererererereres --- the very lovely Wally Breen.

    [See Renaissance of American Coinage 1905-1908 for facts and details.]

  • Moxie15
    Moxie15 Posts: 328 ✭✭✭
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    @lkeigwin said:
    @insider2, can you describe the error?

    I'm sure you're not talking about coins whose edges have been rolled from tumbling around a dryer (since they're not errors).

    Lance.

    As one of my former jobs I tore apart all manor of appliances, including dryers. I found literally thousands of coins in dryers, I even once found a ten dollar bill. Not one single coin I ever found had an edge rolled like what so many on this and other forums hold up as "dryer coins". I have to call BS on the whole phenomenon of dryer coins. The edge was damaged another way in my mind.

  • JoeCorrado
    JoeCorrado Posts: 51 ✭✭
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    My interest is piqued. Sounds like a term that professional collectors might best understand or describe- but not me.

    I would be interested in seeing a photo as well that shows what a "rolled edge" really looks like. In my mind it is a coin that has the edge/ridge crimped or folded over maybe?

    If anybody has a photo, please share.

  • MrEureka
    MrEureka Posts: 24,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I've never heard the term used with respect to errors.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have only heard this term applied to coins being formed for jewelry... and that would be PMD...Cheers, RickO

  • Aegis3
    Aegis3 Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭
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    Are you thinking of a "rolling fold"?

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    Ed. S.

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  • Insider2
    Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Aegis3 said:
    Are you thinking of a "rolling fold"?

    Possibly? Not interested in altered edges or PMD. Finally got an image of something unusual:

    The coin shows no evidence of damage. Possibly a lamination but I cannot touch the coin. Appears that something sheared a part of the rim. If this were common there would be images and description all over the web.

    Thanks for replies!

  • MedalCollector
    MedalCollector Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Insider2 said:

    @Aegis3 said:
    Are you thinking of a "rolling fold"?

    Possibly? Not interested in altered edges or PMD. Finally got an image of something unusual:

    The coin shows no evidence of damage. Possibly a lamination but I cannot touch the coin. Appears that something sheared a part of the rim. If this were common there would be images and description all over the web.

    Thanks for replies!

    How is this an error? That is post-strike movement of metal.

    Even if it was originally a rim burr, it would be difficult to tell due to the damage incurred after the strike.

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