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What have I got here? Missing and flaking metal on dollar coin out of sealed mint bag. UPDATED 2/20
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Okay, I never imagined I'd be the guy posting a dozen zoomed in photos asking if a modern coin found "roll hunting" is a mint error, but here we are.
This coin was pulled straight from a sealed /sewn original bag. It is the only one like it in the bag, and the only one I have seen like this in searching nearly 2,000 AI dollars.
There is missing metal on the rims, and there is metal flaking up off the rim which does not appear to have been moved from damage/contact. What have I got here?
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
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Go buy a Red Book. You can't believe everything you see on YouTube. EBay prices are asking prices, search completed auctions.
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Ok well regardless of what anyone replies I am going to obstinately tell them they are wrong, especially if they are well-regarded error coin experts.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
Damaged after it left the press. I'm not a well-regarded error coin expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.
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It's just pocket change.
Maybe damage from the edge-lettering machine?
Considering that this was found in a mint sealed bag, I see no reason to doubt that it's a legitimate lamination. Laminations happen. Small ones like this have no added value to speak of.
Hard to tell from those photos. Looks like damage but wasn't there also "lamination" issues with those?
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Definitely a planchet defect (mint error) with laminations and partial delamination going on.
I thought planchet defect too, normally missing chunks like that would be shinier than the metal around it, which I don't see here.
planchet defect somehow
on the coin in the first two pics you can see a crescent shaped area in the field(left side of pictures). the disruptions on the field do not appear on the We and AI cogwheel.
Thanks @dcarr and others. I’m convinced now that the primary error is “struck on defective planchet”, which also resulted in laminations and at least one area of delamination. Great to learn something new!
Now please excuse me while I list it on eBay for several thousand dollars with an item title in all upper case with a dozen exclamation points. ULTRA RARE TRIPLE MINT ERROR DEFECTIVE PLANCHET! LAMINATION! DELAMINATION! RARE TRIFECTA!!!!!!!!!
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
I dropped this coin off at ANACS during FUN to see if they'd agree with the error assessment. The coin showed up this afternoon in a genuine mint error "struck on defective blank" holder, and graded MS65.
There aren't too many American Innovation dollars in error holders, so far as I can tell.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
Very nice error coin
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZfCQR8cohq6eXW529
https://photos.app.goo.gl/9Wuk99MBa1dCZm7m6