Is this an "Uncentered Broadstruck Error"?
jimq
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I'm really new at collecting coins and trying to replace the few coins I collected as a kind. One I had was a type 2 or 3 "trime" and I bought this coin not knowing it wasn't what I had. I was looking at it today and it seems to me to be off center. I know the coin isn't worth anything at all and I paid too much, just curious if I'm using the right words. Thanks in advance for any advice at all!
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Does that coin have a normal squared edge? By definition, a broadstruck coin is struck without a dollar. If yours is struck with a collar, then it couldn't be considered a broadstrike. That of course easier to tell on coins with reeding, but still.
A broadstruck coin also has a larger diameter than a normal coin (hence the "broad" part of the name). If yours is normal diameter, then it is not broadstruck. That is easier to tell on coins that have a large diameter to start with.
Additionally, the "uncentered" part requires some design elements to be missing. Yours is definitely not uncentered, whether or not it is broadstruck.
All told, your pictures give the appearance of a totally normal coin.
If that coin is sitting in a Whitman-style album intended for silver trimes, and it fits perfectly, then it's not a broadstrike as jonathanb stated: a broadstrike is, by definition, "broader" than a normal coin and so a broadstruck trime wouldn't fit neatly into a trime hole.
I believe your coin is slightly off-centre, but not far enough off-centre to qualify as an of-centre error.
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looks like it is in a holder
shoot front and back outside it
Wow that was incredibly fast! Like I said I really don't know much, trying to learn. It does have a collar I think so just badly centered. It does have rim damage but like you said probably totally normal coin. i wasn't hoping to be rich or anything but at least now I know.
Thanks so much!