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19-3 steel cent question?? (PICS) - added a 60x view
AskRaq
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Going through a roll of wheaties (yes, primarily crap coins) and came across this 43 steel.... but found it odd that the "4" was missing. Figured it was damaged & looked with a loupe - couldn't see a single trace of it from any angle, and the surface was the same in the missing number area as the surrounding number areas??? The ONLY way you can see that a 4 should be there is when the camera flash catches just the right angle.... So, my question is, is this a filled die? And if so, why would only a single number (in between other numbers) be filled?
~ Okay, the lighting is crappy so the color is way off (the coin was on the bottom of a slightly off-white melamine bowl) & the macro wasn't doing it's best...
~ Okay, the lighting is crappy so the color is way off (the coin was on the bottom of a slightly off-white melamine bowl) & the macro wasn't doing it's best...
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-Paul
good eye Raquel
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
<< <i>stuff like that is pretty cool i think
good eye Raquel
See what you got me doin'?!?! (...that freakin' DC quarter has me starving for some coin anomalies)
It really has to be one of my favorite things to do - if friends & family didn't think it was just nutty as hell... LOL
<< <i>Out there somewhere is a dropped number 4 on another Steelie. >>
I've heard that term "dropped letter/number" and never really understood that - do numbers really get stuck in a die and fall off and stick to another coin?? I thought it was just a term for some other anomaly??
BTW - added a 60x pic...
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<< <i>Out there somewhere is a dropped number 4 on another Steelie. >>
I've heard that term "dropped letter/number" and never really understood that - do numbers really get stuck in a die and fall off and stick to another coin?? I thought it was just a term for some other anomaly??
BTW - added a 60x pic... >>
Everything in the die is reversed, so think of a reverse 4 filling up with debris and getting so tightly packed into the incused 4 on the die, it may eventually fall out onto a blank just like a Jell-O being released from a mold and depending how the loose compacted number 4 lands, (crosslet pointing right or left) the striking die will incuse the number 4 right into the surface of the next coin.
Now you have a dropped letter/number error coin.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
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<< <i>Out there somewhere is a dropped number 4 on another Steelie. >>
I've heard that term "dropped letter/number" and never really understood that - do numbers really get stuck in a die and fall off and stick to another coin?? I thought it was just a term for some other anomaly??
BTW - added a 60x pic... >>
Everything in the die is reversed, so think of a reverse 4 filling up with debris and getting so tightly packed into the incused 4 on the die, it may eventually fall out onto a blank just like a Jell-O being released from a mold and depending how the loose compacted number 4 lands, (crosslet pointing right or left) the striking die will incuse the number 4 right into the surface of the next coin.
Now you have a dropped letter/number error coin. >>
Oh, now I understand what it means... it's not the actual metal number from the coin that gets stuck in the die & then falls out... it's other debris that was clogging the die until it was so full that it released?? That's pretty cool - can you show me a coin that has a "dropped letter/number" so that I can see what it looks like? (I've only seen the term used on eBay when referring to the new golden dollar coins - and they all appeared to have simply been hit by another coin hard enough to have imprinted the reverse of a letter/number in the surface). Thanks for the explanation!!
I found at the end of `08.
If someone can find that thread the pic there should still be good.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
<< <i>I`m not too good on resurrecting old threads but I posted a Hawaii D 25c with a dropped Y on George`s neck
I found at the end of `08.
If someone can find that thread the pic there should still be good. >>
resurrected....
note "Y" on neck of george
When I was cherry picking through the rolls there were several with the same thing going on.
They were likely having a bad 4 day.
As for the '43-S... yes, I have noticed that the 4 is weak on many of them too... just never seen it completely disappear!
<< <i>thats a really cool coin, ever think of salbbing it? >>
Is that like licking it?? lol
Actually, I have quite a few low-end coins that I would greatly enjoy having slabbed, and have often considered getting a PCGS membership... but the costs are a bit prohibitive for such low-end coins as I collect... I have smooth-edge Washington $'s, IHC's with MPD's & RPD's, and various other "widgets"... but nothing that really costs more than twice the price of grading/shipping/insurance.