Is this an error coin?

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• AUandAG Posts: 24,945 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 23, 2009 7:47AM

  Welcome to the forum and welcome to coin collecting.
  
  What you have here is a Sacajawea dollar with a huge rim problem at 6:30.
  
  I'm not an error specialists and they will undoubtedly chime in but I think it's cool.
  
  It was certainly done at the mint but may be post minting damage.
  
  We'll see soon!
  
  bob

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• tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

  November 23, 2009 7:48AM

  
  
  .....if i'm looking at what you're looking at i think it might be. there are others on the forums that collect errors so perhaps they will chime in with a verdict.

  "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington

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• commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭

  November 23, 2009 7:48AM

  Looks like a lamination.
  
  -Paul

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• BillJones Posts: 34,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 23, 2009 7:49AM

  I'm trying to figure out what you are finding that is wrong with it. It is a Proof Sacagawea dollar and as such a normal part of the 2000 set.
  
  OK I missed the rim.
  
  Here's one the mint sent to me years ago which I returned. Perhaps I should have kept it. It certainly was ugly ...
  
  

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• SDavisCoins Posts: 25 ✭

  November 23, 2009 7:51AM

  It is still sealed in the proof set, if I want to submit it to PCGS or NGC, should I send in the whole thing as-is? Or break it out?

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• SDavisCoins Posts: 25 ✭

  November 23, 2009 7:51AM

  
  
  << <i>I'm trying to figure out what you are finding that is wrong with it. It is a Proof Sacagawea dollar and as such a normal part of the 2000 set. >>
  
  
  
  The rim at 6:30 is definately not normal.

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• boucharda Posts: 2,941

  November 23, 2009 7:51AM

  
  
  << <i>I'm trying to figure out what you are finding that is wrong with it. It is a Proof Sacagawea dollar and as such a normal part of the 2000 set. >>
  
  
  
  I think he is keying on the issue between 6 and 7 o'clock on the coin
  
  
  Edited to add: I guess I do not type fast enough

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• tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

  November 23, 2009 7:52AM

  
  
  ........HEY FRED! WHAT SAY YOU??

  "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington

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• boucharda Posts: 2,941

  November 23, 2009 7:55AM

  
  
  << <i>ere's one the mint sent to me years ago which I returned. Perhaps I should have kept it. It certainly was ugly .. >>
  
  
  
  That's the rare GSW variety! And you returned it???
  
  I'd say .44 caliber

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• jonathanb Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 23, 2009 7:55AM

  It's a rim burr. A big one, too. Unfortunately, rim burrs are not widely collected, so I don't know how it would translate into value.

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• SDavisCoins Posts: 25 ✭

  November 23, 2009 7:59AM

  Thats a shame. Was hoping I had a good find there!

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 23, 2009 8:03AM

  Yes, it appears to be a rim burr (folded over piece of
  metal from the rim/edge, when struck).
  
  Although it's scarce on Proofs, the collector is probably
  just as scarce.
  
  I wouldn't spend submission money on it, but if you want
  to sell it, put it up on Ebay, where it will bring whatever
  the bidders in that catagory value it for.
  
  Or, you can keep it as an interesting conversation piece.

  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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