First known? 1999 Georgia Statehood struck on Nickel Planchet

Post a photo if you can. :smile

 

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Mistakened as a 1999 but ended up being a 2000 New Hampshire state quarter. But yeah, definitely missing the obverse layer. I compared to another quarter and it's just slightly slimmer. I don't have a scale to weigh it but it's definitely obvious. Definitely circulated as well, not that great of shape. I'm sure my dad found it in loose change that he always searched through before setting aside anything odd, error or obviously worth more. These are the best I could do, couldn't find a decent background with better lighting.

 

Neat find

That is a neat find.

I always find it amazing that a coin like this can circulate without anyone noticing that it is the wrong color (until your dad saw it of course).

 

Yeah, most people probably just don't care, they just see a quarter they can spend. It'll be staying in the collection though, finding stuff like this is definitely unique.

 

It is possible something like this was done by a mint employee, as gboulton asked about. It's also very highly unlikely with the US mint's strict measures. If this were a modern Indian, Singaporean or Malaysian coin, I would say it's most likely an assisted error since it was a common occurrence there.
With this coin, even if that were the case it wouldn't make a wee bit of difference, as it could never be proven. Practically speaking, all that matters is that it's struck from official mint dies.

 

Tick tock tick tock.... dealer says it is estimated to be back 12/10/2011. I'm dying to get it back and see what PCGS/Fred Weinberg had to say about it. Though, after the dealer weighed it, inspected it, etc, there was no doubt.. "this one's a home run" he says... It'll just be nice to have it back, and in a PCGS slab. My first slabbed coin.. I think it's a heck of a start.

 

It's beautiful.
Congrats!

 

PCFGS might not authenticate it or list it as an :error:, they are limited in what they do recognize. NGC also has a great number of varieties they don't recognize.

I do know that CONECA forwarded a coin of mine to ANACS for grading and certification, largely because the other grading services just don't consider it.

I think telling him to send it to PCGS is a mistake. He should ask PCGS first, if they will assign the error to the slab. There is a chance they won't, then he has to bust it out and do it over. Same with NGC. You cannot assume they are going to show what the error is. IMHO



gary

 

PCGS does recognize double denomination errors; here's one example http://coins.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=1143&lotIdNo=55004

So there shouldn't be any problem certifying the OP's coin.

 

Just thought I'd update this thread to say... Still no update. Still awaiting return from PCGS. Man, this wait is killing me!

 

Thanks for the update. Wait a minute! What update?

 

yea what are we waiting for???

 

Just emailed the dealer this morning.. hopefully he'll come back with something other than "Nothing yet".

 

Counterfeit? Georgia is the most expensive, Thats what my Coin dealer said.

 

Outstanding find!!!!!

 

Not sure I understand the "counterfeit" part. How could that have possibly been counterfeited?

 

don't pay much attention to what some folks say. anyone should be able to tell your coin is a good one. PCGS will have no problem with this one at all because it is so easy to identify , no experts opinion would be needed here.

 

putting my jacket on the chair to hold my spot.
I'll be back when the OP returns...

 

Oh, I worry not what folks think or say, and his comment didn't bother me at all, as I suspect it wasn't meant disrespectfully at all. If I had the ability to counterfeit coins, I highly doubt I'd be advertising them on a forum. My question was more.. I understand how coins could be counterfeited.. but a coin struck on another struck coin counterfeit? Just more curious how that'd be possible.

 

Man o man... 7-8 weeks is a bit long out to PCGS isn't it? I know errors take "a little longer".. But wow..