Help with this cool error please

How would one describe this error. I have both specimens involved. It looks like a mated pair of sort.

Together


Separate


Right coin obv

 

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hate to say it but looks more like post mint damage to me as in someone put 2 coins in a vise to get that effect.

 

Thank YOU for that great answer.

 

It was definitely made like that. I would call it a mated pair.

 

I believe so. I have many error coins, but have never seen this. How common type of error is it?

 

I am not an error expert, but it does look like a mated pair. Very cool piece!

 

I have seen quite a few mated pairs over the years. I can't recall seeing any from Chile tho... But that doesn't mean anything. Mated pairs are usually pretty valueable. Usually in the several hundred dollar range on US coins. I would recommend contacting Fred Weinberg as he will most likely have all the answers you need about rarity and value.

 

I like what Matt says

 

It looks like a legitimate error to me. I can't recall if it was here or on another forum that someone posted a Lincoln cent where 13 or 15 planchets had been struck into one another.

Chris

 

very interresting

 

Yup!!!!!!

 

Not PMD. It's very nice!

 

thanx for the comments guys. I have a question. I am planning my first trip to the US via New York (June-July) next year and would like to visit some great coin related shows and shops. Something happening over this time?

 

I don't think so. Look at the first picture; that's a full strike off-center and with another planchet underneath it. You couldn't get that kind of effect with a vise, there wouldn't be nearly enough pressure to do that.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I think happened:

Coin one gets a normal strike, is ejected from the chamber, but not completely.

New planchet enters the chamber, gets struck by the dies... but also by coin one, that hasn't been ejected fully, resulting in coin 2 getting struck both by the dies and coin 1, and coin 1 getting a second partially off-center strike by the dies.

Results in something like this that is easier to show than describe lol... the reversed impression is a result of getting hit by the reverse of the other coin.

In any case I don't think this is PMD and looks like a legitimate error. (The reverse impression can happen with a vice job, but the impression is way too deep here; it had to have been struck.)

Value and rarity, I don't know. Depends on quality control at what I presume was the Santiago mint in 1933.

Cool find though, especially when you have both coins that resulted from the error. Can tell you that the value of both of them together will be much higher than if you only had one, or the sum total of them separately.

 

Here is a good link courtesy of error-ref.com
http://error-ref.com/Mated_Pairs.html

 

Definitely a mated pair, and nice to have in one's collection. Here is another example similar to yours.

http://heritageauctions.blogspot.ca/2010/03/coin-monday-bonded-mated-pair.html

 

Some others?

 

Again I am not so good at errors, but the first one looks like a partial brockage, and the third picture looks like a double struck cent.

 

Very good, the first piece IS a partial Brockage, and the second piece is a double struck with second strike partially struck through a planchet. But when you have both coins that were struck together together so they fit together perfectly, you have a mated pair. Finding either one of the two coins makes for a nice error, but finding both pieces is VERY difficult so the pair is worth much more than the sum of the two errors separately.

 

Condor, that seems right. I added some crude drawings to show what I think happened based on what you guys said.