Double Denomination

There is a fellow poster here that has a double denomination coin and he "used" to post it and the story that went along with it every chance he got. He's very proud of the coin and from what I understand has had it for quite some time. Of course, he values it far beyond what it actual value might be but then most of us do that as well, although not to such an extreme.

The last time he posted it, he was raked incessantly over the hot coals to the point where I now believe that he will not post it again.

Browse this thread: http://www.cointalk.com/threads/favorite-coins.230002/

There are other posters that delight in taking pokes at redwin1117 and simply do not understand that regardless of what he feels, all coins have a relative value depending upon what they might be.

As for your coin, that particular type of coin is on my hit list for future purchases as they are always excellent conversation pieces.

 

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I think the raking over the coals is not so much his valuation of the coin, but its over-exposure.

 

I have to agree. This is not to question Mr. Diamond's expertise in this area, but certification will add to the liquidity of the coin. She has admitted that she is not a coin person, so it is probably safe to assume that if she sells herself on ebay (and has been suggested), the certification will broaden the coin's appeal and give confidence to those worried about buying such an error from an inexperienced seller. If she sells to a dealer this may not be necessary, but still would not hurt.

 

And if anyone really wanted to help out (being self less about it) they could PM some low ball offers so the OP understands the minimum field strength of the gravity of the situation. With that eye opener - making the leap to grading and attribution might seem like a natural progression ... and then off we go to worlds largest garage sale

 

Lets try not to have it happen this time. Keep this thread on the track of the original post.

 

Hopefully somewhat better pics...

 

Those photos are better. I find from these that if you start with the Dime obverse horizontal you have to rotate it CW 109 Degrees to get the Cent ob horiz

For the reverse, start with the dime horiz and you need to rotate the coin CCW 122 deg to get the memorial horiz.

either one or both of the dies had a rotational error.

 

I believe you are seeing it wrong . there is nothing out of the ordinary here that I can see except the struck cent over a struck dime. the cent and dime are not aligned up with each other because this is the way the coin got struck.

 

Wrong again.

 

Think for a moment. Suppose both denominations were struck perfectly oriented O/R for them selves, but off from denomination to denomination, wouldn't you expect the offset from denomination to denomination to be the same on O as R? How could it be otherwise? I'll tell you how, in fact I already did ^^^

 

At the end of post 27 it would be better terminology to say "die sets" rather than dies, perhaps a mod could fix that.