Strike through on a dropped device??

Seller is claiming its a dropped device while the slab says strike through.



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A dropped device, by nature, would (at least partially) fill the devices on the die it was struck into....

There are aspects of this anomaly which resemble a "dropped wreath leaf set." How that could then be struck into a planchet while the O and N remain whole and original escapes me. A thin delamination might do that if struck through.

 

That is a very cool error. You seem to find some really intriguing stuff.

 

Thank you. Once i get everything all slabbed ill send them on over for better imaging.

This was a unique looking coin and boss lady said yes. Who am I to argue??

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Luckily she didnt cost nearly that amount.

The reverse is much prettier.


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I really like it. Honestly if I came across it in the wild, it would be one that would stay in my collection.

 

Very nice! She's a keeper!

 

In all the years Ive been looking at coins I havent seen another like it.
Ive seen dropped letters and numbers but I havent seen a dropped device with letters on top of it. TBH, I think the seller could have gotten a whole lot more in a highly advertised auction, well above the $1000 mark.

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Sorry, can one of you articulate in laymen terms what a dropped device is? Or is there a definition somewhere? I'm trying to visualize what's happening with that die strike.

 

Sorry, couldn't resist Tom...

 

You know what a grease filled die right? Well imagine that grease has now become hardened and falls out of the device between strikes. That hardened piece of debris is like a cut out and retains it's shape. That piece of debris is then struck into the planchet creating a impression rather than a raised image of the host device. At least that's what I think it is.

 

Yes, got it! I can visualize that. That makes sense. Thanks Justin.

 

That's it. They can appear "normal" or mirror-image if they happen to rotate before being struck through.

 

WOW. That is a dropped element. Its a wreath leaf cluster and part of the Olive leaves. Holy smokes!

 

Then why didn't it fill the devices on the die?

 

Well it did somewhat on the N leg, upper right quadrant of the O and above leaf cluster. I'm guessing the grease was thin and somewhat viscous or not as compacted in some parts and spread into most of the devices during the strike.

 

Then how was it strong enough to create a sharp outline at its' thinnest part? C'mon, man. This doesn't pass the smell test.

 

Because that's on the flat field maybe? Its either a dropped letter or detached lamination strikethrough of partial Olive leaves and the cluster to the left of the Olive leaves and the overall look of the strikethrough is more like grease rather than metal to me. Either way it's killer

 

Agreed, killer. I lean towards "struck thru a delamination." You can envision a ready-to-delam planchet being snipped off nicely by the edges of the devices when struck, and since this is the anvil die gravity would tend to help keep it there for the nest strike. Being thin, the next strike just punched planchet metal right through it to fill the letters, but field-to-field it was enough to create a strikethrough.

 

Thunderdome time