Options
2020
ctf_error_coins
Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
Major mint errors are rare 
14
ctf_error_coins
Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
Comments
Real nice!
Those are really nice!
I never really considered a clipped planchet to be a major error but perhaps I should?
The Die Adjustment Strike is nice. How do these make it out? I assume die adjustments are done manually so the coin can be examined. Is the coin examined, considered a failure, die reset, and coin supposed to be waffled but some how it makes it out of the mint?
Clips are underappreciated for sure.
Clips are more common on pre-2002 coins, after that they get much rarer.
Any National Park Quarter with a planchet clip I would consider a Major (error) find.
do you think you could cross that cent with the date? or would you not even waste the effort?
The Die adjustment Strike can easily make it out of the mint as it is the same size and weight of all zincolns.
The date will cross, but the error type may not
But would it be human error for it to get out? I assume humans are evaluating individual die adjustment strike coins while adjusting the die, or is this not the case? If humans are evaluating each coin for die setting, so for it to escape the Mint seems to be be either intentional or carelessness?
Very cool 2020 Quarter errors. I have one too. At first I thought it was a "rim burr". But was told It was a "pre cud die break." Waiting to send mine in to PCGS. I'm not only hoping for them to give me a good description but mostly a high grade. Hoping for a MS 68 or even better?
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.No idea
Joey, Looks like a struck thru to me, cool find.
I'll be watching for the grade on that tuskegee. 67?
glad to see they dated the 202X cent.
Neat errors!
Collector
Over 100 Positive BST transactions buying and selling with 57 members and counting!
instagram.com/klnumismatics
I strongly disagree with "pre cud die break." why would the adjacent rim at the top fade away? I vote rim burr.
Joey! Awesome coin eagle eye! Congratulations!
These are what pass for major errors these days?
I guess it's all relative.
Rarity drives the game, these are ultra-rare.
I’ve seen a few of the Salt River Bay clips. Below is mine. FWIW I don’t consider it a major error. They are pretty awesome though!
I would consider that a major error coin and pay YOU accordingly
Nice Coin.
“Die adjustment strike” is a catch-all term that is used promotionally to describe any weak strike. Weak strikes can be caused by many different malfunctions within the press. Unless you were there at the time of striking, it is unlikely that one can accurately describe a weak strike as a “die adjustment strike”.
Ok, let's have some fun
If that is what's being discussed, calling these die adjustment strikes sounds misleading.
I've been at Dan's Moonlight Mint where he adjusted the dies in the press to get the proper strike where each coin was examined to get the setting right. That's not what seems like these are.
I vote rim burr on the Tuskegee quarter. The depressed area around the edge of the anomaly points to this diagnosis.
oh
that's that coin/
yeah it does seem more like a struck through than any weak strike
For 2020, there is also an interesting struck through error on the American Samoa Bat quarter. A deep struck through on the bat's face, making the error cool-looking. I am surprised nobody has it slabbed yet. Maybe it is at PCGS.
do those clips show up in rolls, bags, pocket change? curious as to how those are found - hard to imagine they make it far along in commerce looking like that
How do they know that curved clip was minted 5 o'clock. And is that am or pm.
Interesting errors.... though I am not an error collector, I really like seeing the various errors and determination of causes. I will also say that how some of these leave the mint baffles me.... Cheers, RickO