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relicsncoinsrelicsncoins Posts: 8,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
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To me this is like an antique furniture collector buying a sliver of wood.

A coin sliver.
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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like a shot 64 to me. MJimage
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  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    Well, people bought the "Waffle Coins" that were from the mint. So I would assume that people will collect anything.

    Ron
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  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    People will collect whatever comes out of the US Mint.

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  • MoldnutMoldnut Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like a shot 64 to me. MJimage >>



    I dont know MJ, it looks like it needs a + next to your 64
    Derek

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  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,785 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Do people actually collect stuff like this?"

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    If you slab it,,,,,,, someone will buy it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, image

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  • FullStepJeffsFullStepJeffs Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭
    If Al's selling them, then there are people collecting them.

    IMHO, probably one of the top market maker major error dealers I'm aware of besides Fred and Mike Byers.


    Hey Fred.. what say you on this question?



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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    That'll buff out.
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  • atarianatarian Posts: 3,116 ✭
    im kinda surprised that the fragment was actually graded. I could see genuine as a 25 cent quarter but really can you assign a grade to a fragment??? Youll have a hard time selling that to me. Its like on the currency side have a corner of a note get cut off at the BEP and someone sending it out for grading. I dont think theres enough there to grade and really all a respectable grading service should do ( in my eyes) is slab it genuine. cause What makes a fragment that small a 62 63 or 64 It isnt clear fields and lack of bag marks or coin/coin hits, sure isnt high spots of washington or the reverse design. I dont see it
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  • coinhunter007coinhunter007 Posts: 54
    Honestly looks like a shoe to me.
  • robkoolrobkool Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very kool tho... It's different to see something like this piece in an anacs slab. I've seen similar pieces in ngc holders.
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  • MoldnutMoldnut Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭
    They could have graded it a 70, but would it matter. I dont think your buying the grade on that one.
    Derek

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  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭


    << <i>Honestly looks like a shoe to me. >>



    I didn't know the U.S. Mint made Monopoly Tokens?

    And, I didn't know ANACS graded them?

    Ron
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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    Yes, people collect struck fragments. However, I agree the grade makes little or no sense to me.
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think Erroroncoins has a few shiv's like this in his collection image
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,957 ✭✭✭✭✭
    trash from the floor. yuk.
  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    Everyone here would collect it just at different price points. If found in change or in a mint bag not a single one of us would throw it back.
  • scotty1418scotty1418 Posts: 286


    << <i>Everyone here would collect it just at different price points. If found in change or in a mint bag not a single one of us would throw it back. >>



    Agreed. I would collect it at a -$10 price point image
  • tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Agreed. I would collect it at a -$10 price point >>



    Cool - an easy ten bucks. Please ship the fragment and ten dollars to my address
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If it exists, someone, somewhere, collects it. I have seen string collections, rubber band collections, even belly button lint. Do not try to understand it, just what people do. Cheers, RickO
  • StubbyMcNumbthumbsStubbyMcNumbthumbs Posts: 1,259 ✭


    << <i>Honestly looks like a shoe to me. >>




    HaHa! That's the first thing I thought too!
  • SeaEagleCoinsSeaEagleCoins Posts: 3,262 ✭
    People collect all sorts of things...

    ...there are many who make a lifetime endeavor out of simply collecting dust... sitting on their derierre image (no offense intended to any who want to get up and around but are unable to do so)

    I once knew a kid back in grammer school (is it still called that these days?) ... he actually collected his boogers image ... needless to say, I only went to his house to play one time... image
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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gonna quickly address a few things about the coin linked in the OP:

    1. The holder says "multistruck fragment" but most likely it is part of a terminal stage die cap which fell apart. It looks like that piece fell between the dies and was struck one more time for good measure before finally ejecting.

    2. I've always been told that the grade on a misstruck coin is based only on the portion struck with the design. Personally I don't see any reason to give something like that a numeric grade at all since the value is not tied to it whatsoever.

    3. Yes, people actually collect stuff like this. The price doesn't seem out of line either, struck fragments from the late 1990s aren't really scarce but most of the ones I've seen have been on cents, to have a piece like that which can be identified from a first-year state quarter is pretty special.


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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,943 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I once knew a kid back in grammer school (is it still called that these days?) ... he actually collected his boogers image ... needless to say, I only went to his house to play one time... image >>



    Thanks for sharing that with us.image

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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I once knew a kid back in grammer school (is it still called that these days?) ... he actually collected his boogers image ... needless to say, I only went to his house to play one time... image >>



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  • DenverDaveDenverDave Posts: 2,164


    Placing a grade on such a piece is a joke, it maybe MS if it stood for Mangled Steel...

    what's next... The sweepings off the Mint Floor...

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
    people like a little bit of everything i guess. that works to
  • joecopperjoecopper Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭
    It is a poser to me as well.
  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭
    What I want to know is if it is flopping around in the slab or is it secure in the middle like in the picture?

    It's kind of neat but I wouldn't pay more than $5 for it.
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  • OffMetalOffMetal Posts: 1,684 ✭
    Yes, I actually collect those things.

    Here's one of mine, please excuse the poor photo.

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    I also have two other struck wheat cent fragments I purchased a while back.

    This one is one I've bought from a board member:

    imageimage
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    For me, grade is not necessarily a factor when it comes to mint errors. The uniqueness comes first.

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  • PriestPriest Posts: 270 ✭✭
    Whats unique is that the date must be readable, or am I missing something?
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