What type of error is this?

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slimbert
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Help settle a disagreement....what type of error is this?


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  • TomB
    TomB Posts: 23,192 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have an idea, but might you have images of the reverse side, as well.

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  • jonathanb
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    A "very nice!" type?

    As a first guess I'd say it's struck through a capped die.

    Is the inner rim as rounded as it looks in the picture? Can you post pics of the reverse and ideally the edge also?

  • FredWeinberg
    FredWeinberg Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I agree w/ Jonathanb-

    Looks like from the one photo only - a struck-through very late stage capped die.
    Would like to see the reverse side too….

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  • slimbert
    slimbert Posts: 56 ✭✭✭
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    Here's the reverse:

  • FredWeinberg
    FredWeinberg Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Thanks for posting that – yes,it’s struck through a late stage die cap.

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  • MarkKelley
    MarkKelley Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Capped die strike is correct. And FYI, the date is 1973. It's the only year the designer's initials were this large.

  • MedalCollector
    MedalCollector Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I would consider it an early to mid-stage struck through die cap error, not late stage. Usually, I’d like to see a lot more obverse details to call it a late stage struck through die cap error. Those die caps really got thin and let quite a bit of the obverse die detail to bleed through, and there’s just not much obverse design to be seen on this coin.

  • slimbert
    slimbert Posts: 56 ✭✭✭
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    Thanks everyone!

    @MarkKelley , thanks for the tip on the one year 1973 reverse, didn't know about that. Although, looks like the top of the F should align with the building corner based on what I'm seeing on VarietyVista and TrueViews....but your intel does help narrow the date to 1974-1982 based on reverse and copper composition (3.1g).

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