Error Experts: Is It Possible PCGS Got This One Wrong?

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  fivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 26, 2003 10:41AM

  braddick....I have a PCGS error coin that looks a lot like that one. It is labeled "Mint Error MS60Rd Struck on Thin Planchet.

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  zenny Posts: 1,547 ✭✭

  November 26, 2003 10:43AM

  of course it's not possible that pcgs got it wrong!!!
  
  maybe the mint just erred in the wrong way...
  
  edited to add: oh yeah, nice find, cool coin.

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  XpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭

  November 26, 2003 11:49AM

  Very cool. Why don't you think it is a filled die?

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  Byers Posts: 1,948 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 26, 2003 11:50AM

  "Filled Dies" IS correct.

  mikebyers.com Dealer in Major Mint Errors, Die Trials & Patterns - Author of NLG Best World Coin Book World's Greatest Mint Errors - Publisher & Editor of minterrornews.com.

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  morganbarber Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭

  November 26, 2003 12:58PM

  My opinion should be taken very lightly, but, to me, it looks like a trial strike.

  I collect circulated U.S. silver

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  Veridicus Posts: 312 ✭

  November 26, 2003 1:00PM

  I think it's a trial strike.

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  braddick Posts: 25,141 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 26, 2003 1:11PM

  
  
  << <i>Very cool. Why don't you think it is a filled die? >>
  
  
  Generally a filled dies coin will not offer a smooth struck planchet such as this Lincoln. Also having the dies filled both obverse and reverse is unlikely (although, of course, possible).
  I've seen Lincoln Trial Strikes and this one is the spitting image of those.
  
  It would be cool if I was right as the rarity factor of Die Trials is greater than filled dies.

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  Rampage Posts: 9,674 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 26, 2003 9:32PM

  Pat-
  
  Cool error, but I think that Filled Dies is correct because the rims are too sharp to be a die trial.
  
  Richard.

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  cosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭

  November 26, 2003 9:37PM

  Filled die here. If it was a trial stike more of the high points would be seen. The high points on this are too uneven.

  Bill
  
  
  
  09/07/2006

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  Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭

  November 27, 2003 2:05AM

  I have a 97 just like it and it and it is indeed a filled die.
  
  
  
  
  

  Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.

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  braddick Posts: 25,141 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 27, 2003 2:20AM

  The Experts have spoken. Thanks to all.
  
  It was worth a shot. Still, kind of a neat error when they begin to look like this.
  Maybe with a little pocketpeice wear this one would be considered a PO01? (The first "PO01" Lincoln Memorial!)

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  Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭

  November 27, 2003 8:41AM

  If you want a P-01 you had better use one that is solid copper instead of the clad cents.

  Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.

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  kranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭

  November 27, 2003 8:51AM

  Not that it matters for your piece, but I will pass along the one bit of information I've heard about differentiating filled dies from die trials.
  
  For reeded coins, the reeding will be weak on die trials, and normal on filled die coins. That's because die trials don't have full pressure applied when struck.

  New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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