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I bought a couple off-center Washingtons in the store today...Update grade is in 1st post

SUMORADASUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭
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Slab um or not......opinions please!

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Edited to add grade 9/6/10........

I sent the 1985 in........wheel marks?

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  • coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭
    What's going on with the date on the '88?



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  • ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
    that "88 " P is very cool...looks like Klingon coinage!
  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,828 ✭✭✭
    Chinese counterfeits.

  • JupitarCoinsJupitarCoins Posts: 2,595 ✭
    Is that 88 real?
    Funny looking date.
    Positive:
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  • SUMORADASUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭


    Here are a few more pics of the 88.......

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  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    ...Like the digit style on the 1988 !
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sumorada,

    Be careful. I heard sometime last year (may have been CoinWorld or somewhere thereabouts) that the Chinese counterfeiters are doing error coins as well....

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • coinkid855coinkid855 Posts: 5,012 ✭✭✭
    That's really odd...I know some letters/numbers get distorted on off center and broadstruck coins, but that's just plain weird looking.



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    NGC 2.1 Census! PM me yours!
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,055 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>...Like the digit style on the 1988 ! >>



    Yup. They look like chinese characters.image

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  • goodmoney4badmoneygoodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You guys are acting a bit paranoid, the 1988 digits are distorted from metal flow. I wouldn't submit them myself and the 1985 appears to have a counting wheel rub below the date that could bag it. They are nice off centers though!
  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Strange.Never seen eights like that.
  • SUMORADASUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭

    .....crazy 8's.......image

    I have no clue, in hand these look and feel very legitimate, I was not aware the Chinese were making "Clad Errors".....and these are clad planchets..
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  • truthtellertruthteller Posts: 1,240 ✭✭


    << <i>Chinese counterfeits. >>




    Correct. These "error" coins are showing up all over the place. In coin shows and shops in CA. I have seen numerous better date counterfeit error buffalo nickels being sold as real, only for the dealers to be disappointed in their over the counter purchases. BEWARE and know your coins.



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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,625 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You guys are acting a bit paranoid, the 1988 digits are distorted from metal flow. I wouldn't submit them myself and the 1985 appears to have a counting wheel rub below the date that could bag it. They are nice off centers though! >>



    I hope Eric scored, but, having heard about chinese counterfeit "errors", I would rather be cautious than tell someone it's nothing to worry about.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • goodmoney4badmoneygoodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's good to be wary of counterfeits, BUT, to suggest the coins are chinese counterfeits is over-the-top. The metal flow of the 1988 date is a way to authenticate it, not to question it.
  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,625 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It's good to be wary of counterfeits, BUT, to suggest the coins are chinese counterfeits is over-the-top. The metal flow of the 1988 date is a way to authenticate it, not to question it. >>



    Where did I "suggest" they were chinese counterfeits? I urged caution due to there being chinese counterfeits, but I never "suggested" that was what they were.

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • goodmoney4badmoneygoodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>It's good to be wary of counterfeits, BUT, to suggest the coins are chinese counterfeits is over-the-top. The metal flow of the 1988 date is a way to authenticate it, not to question it. >>



    Where did I "suggest" they were chinese counterfeits? I urged caution due to there being chinese counterfeits, but I never "suggested" that was what they were. >>



    I am saying that there is no need to question these coins as 100% authentic US errors. To slab them or not is the OP's question. My statements are not directed at any one in particular.
  • SUMORADASUMORADA Posts: 4,797 ✭

    Just got the 1988 back, grade in first post.......
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Nice score Eric and hopefully these two'll pay for themselves! image
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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The odd looking 8 is just metal flow and these are real errors imo.
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As mentioned above, the numbers
    look strange due to Metal Flow.

    The coins are genuine......

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