What A Find!!-Never Seen or Heard of This Before-Heart Attack Time

How’s the height on those slabs? I was thinking of a silver dollar sized one as it’s a little higher than a half dollar. This piece of wire sticks up about 1/4” above the coins surface.

 

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Wow…. No, the snap up pretty tight. I am confident there’s not 1/4” of space in there… I’ll take a photo for you

 

Well…. Actually the foam in the self slab is about a 1/4” thick. I have those and I also have snap tights that have removable rings that you size to your coin, but that foam is only about 1/8” thick.

 

Not easy to take a photo of this but I did it. Notice how it sticks up?

 

There is a fair amount of space in there, Dave

 

I just took this photo. It’s the best I can get. It appears that the second seven in the first date is holding the wire down. If I’m correct, it would be the seven was raised when it was minted, and therefore that end of the wire is embedded into the coin itself.

 

yeah…. I do not believe there is that much space.

 

Is it easy to take the slab apart? I’m thinking if the certification process but sending the coin to them is a problem. I don’t want them to damage it taking the self slab apart.

 

Wild and crazy how far that sticks up isn’t it?

 

Yes. It snaps together pretty tight but you can stick a knife edge into it and pop it open…… How about if I stick it in an envelope with a five dollar bill. You can play with the slab and use the five dollar bill to sell me one of those halves you were going to sell in your shop?

 

Lol

 

I would definitely talk to someone before submitting it. To me, I think they royally messed up on @KBBPLL coin. Maybe not, I'm no authority on graded coins. But, to lose the "struck-throughs" by not recognizing they were in the lacquer doesn't sound to promising, I think?
I wish you well with a very "different" coin!

 

It’s unique but challenging for sure. Did you see how far that wire sticks up?

 

What do you suppose it went to or was it a scrap shaving?

 

I don’t know Sal but I can tell you it’s a piece of metal wire. And I can’t think of how that would be used at the mint to clean a die. It would scratch the die.

 

Bits of wire, string, cloth, plastic, various metal bits, staples. reeding fragments, etc all involved in strike-throughs. Where they come from, who knows.

I was thinking a capsule for a piedfort coin (double thickness) could work, but couldn't find anyone selling them.

 

I’ll keep looking. Thanks.

 

Here's a new quarter with a strike through that sold for 113 dollars and some change

 

I just cleaned the seller out bought all six $14 a piece

 

I just saw this thread. Neat. Thanks for sharing.