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Check out what I made today!! Error and counter-strike guys, come look!
coinkid855
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I made this in the Minting Mayhem mini-seminar at the ANA Convention today! =D It contains around 10 blanks. I actually forgot to photograph the other side, sorry!
And here's some others I did tonight.
-Paul
And here's some others I did tonight.
-Paul
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Hoard the keys.
(You did determine that they weren't high interest VAMs before doing that, right?)
Errors are just that, an error. Although a few in the market place were probably made for fun at the mint.
This is called the "Minting Mayhem" mini-seminar, run by Badger Mint. They are following on the footsteps of when Gallery Mint Museum ran the "Creative Errors" mini-seminar several years back, as witnessed by the designs below (noticed backwards 3rd "R" in "ERRORS"):
2002
2003
and here are the scraps:
-Paul
<< <i>Did you realize that you just obliterated a couple of high value Morgan and Peace VAMs????
(You did determine that they weren't high interest VAMs before doing that, right?) >>
The second 1923 looks like VAM 1X. Not sure about the others.
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-Paul
I instructed everyone to bring a common legal tender US dollar coin to stamp over.
While I was busy doing the stamping, my helper was "rimming" the coins (reducing
the diameter so that large dollar coins would fit in the 38mm collar).
Anyway, when an older gentleman came up to the press with his rimmed Morgan dollar
for over-striking, I noticed that it was an 1880 VAM-1A "Knobbed 8". Those are fairly rare
and this one was a late die state to boot. Too bad it had already been destroyed by the rimming.
Oh well, the only thing to do at that point was to obliterate it (full obverse/reverse 250-ton over-strike).
The good news was that it was a low-grade (G) specimen, like most of this VAM
I've seen you use the term "rimming" a few times. What is the process? Is it squeezing the circumference of the coin, like turning a blank into a planchet with an upset mill? Or are you slicing off some metal to decrease the diameter?
Just ran across this. Very cool cluster @coinkid855!
I would love to make one of these!
Cool!
Post to remind.
Very cool indeed!
I missed this thread the first time around.
By "rimming" I mean upset mill - to reduce the diameter slightly and to raise the rims a little bit prior to striking.
That's pretty neat, I'm curious are there any seminars like that or ANA clubs indiana?
Oh those poor coins.... Cheers, RickO