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BEAUTIFUL TRIPLE STRUCK LINCOLN

CHESSNUTDOGCHESSNUTDOG Posts: 291
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IM NOT A BIG ERROR FAN BUT THIS LOOKS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS....ANY IDEAS HOW MUCH IT WILL PROBABLY GO FOR?
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    ss350camaross350camaro Posts: 4,529 ✭
    Estimate: US $1.00 - US $1,000,000.00



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    pretty cool !


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    FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 6,027 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I sold two very similar pieces, in PCGS holders, in the
    past few months, for $450 and $475 each......

    This should bring about the same, with the 15% buyers fee;


    Fred
    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
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    DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825
    That coin is amazing. I want one like it.
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    jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 4,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1964 is pretty much the date for spectacular multistrikes, on both cents and nickels.
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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool error.
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    errormavenerrormaven Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭
    It's actually a saddle strike on a broadstruck cent. The second and third strikes were received simultaneously instead of sequentially.
    Mike Diamond is an error coin writer and researcher. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those held by any organization I am a member of.
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    shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    errormaven - Please explain, in layman's terms, a saddle strike to us.

    Double strike -
    The partial second strike obliterates the original image beneath it, but the rest of the first strike is undistorted, except in the immediate vicinity of the second strike. A saddle strike is generally not a true double strike, but usually the result of having a planchet fall partially between two pairs of dies on a multi-die press. Saddle strikes have two partial images, and an expanse of unstruck planchet between the struck areas, resembling Mickey Mouse's head with the partial coin images representing his ears.

    Examples of coins struck three, four or more times are known.

    This explanation, found on the web, doesn't make it clear to me.

    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org
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    errormavenerrormaven Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭
    A saddle strike is a tandem strike that occurs in a dual or quad press. Two die pairs lie right next to each other such that a coin or planchet can straddle the gap between them. Both die pairs strike the coin or planchet simultaneously. It's called a saddle strike because the unstruck gap between the two off-center strikes often buckles, and sometimes assumes the shape of a saddle.
    Mike Diamond is an error coin writer and researcher. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those held by any organization I am a member of.
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    shylockshylock Posts: 4,288 ✭✭✭
    errormaven - thanks.

    The modern dual press concept is foreign to 19'th century collectors like myself. Now I get it and it's no wonder errors are
    more exotic these days than during the single press era. The reverse strikes of this coin really do look like saddles.

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    Paul <> altered surfaces <> CoinGallery.org

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