Strike through or error?

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• commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭

  November 18, 2009 3:34AM

  Looks like a strike through.
  
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• rld14 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭

  November 18, 2009 3:47AM

  Yeah it is a strike-through, and PCGS is likely to call it an Error if it was submitted as such.
  
  I dunno if it really brings much of a premium tho

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 18, 2009 3:50AM

  If I may chime in - yes, it's a 'struck thru' error.
  
  However, I'd call it a "White Elephant" error -
  meaning, the value of the host coin itself far
  exceeds the small premium (if any) it would
  have as an error.
  
  I wouldn't spend the money to "Mint Error"
  holder it myself, but it's your coin.
  
  
  

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• ctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 18, 2009 4:07AM

  I knew that was a struck thru error but the term "White Elephant" is new to me.. Thank you Fred, I guess that describes this 1903 Proof Struck thru Error ...
  
  

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 18, 2009 4:18AM

  
  
  << <i>I knew that was a struck thru error but the term "White Elephant" is new to me.. Thank you Fred, I guess that describes this 1903 Proof Struck thru Error >>
  
  
  
  No that's actually a Pink Elephant
  
  I saw the WLH on your site soty27 it's a great looking coin!
  
  I only own one Struck-In WLH Error with a retained chunk of silver.
  
  
  

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• soty27 Posts: 1,956

  November 18, 2009 4:36AM

  Nice coin broadstruck
  
  I just realized when he said it was an error he was refering to the strike through. I guess I just didnt look at a strike through as an error but as a strike through

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• terribleredmonster Posts: 456 ✭

  November 18, 2009 4:48AM

  I'm not a Walker guy, so forgive me if these questions are silly:
  
  1) Is all of the doubling evident in "E PLURIBUS UNUM" common? Or, better yet, am I just seeing things?
  
  2) What's with the area of (oh, let's call it) weakness above the second L in "DOLLAR" that extends the whole way through the eagle's claw and into its leg?
  
  3) Do these issues have something to do with the coin being struck through, or are they unrelated?
  
  Thanks.

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• ponderit Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 18, 2009 5:53AM

  Terrible, it looks to be struck through wire... (soty is it wire?), running north south below the eagle's breast and along the back edge of the eagles right wing. Great error!

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• JupitarCoins Posts: 2,595 ✭

  November 18, 2009 6:02AM

  
  
  << <i>
  
  << <i>I knew that was a struck thru error but the term "White Elephant" is new to me.. Thank you Fred, I guess that describes this 1903 Proof Struck thru Error >>
  
  
  
  No that's actually a Pink Elephant
  
  I saw the WLH on your site soty27 it's a great looking coin!
  
  I only own one Struck-In WLH Error with a retained chunk of silver.
  
  
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  That looks like a flat head screw!!

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