I was checking my old graded 5c and 10c ms and proofs last night for FS and FB. I came across 3 pcgs PF69 DCAM 1976-D, graded in sequential order, with identical visable damage to the exact same spot on the center of the bottom 3 steps without the need for magnification.. First how did these even get graded much less 69 and 2nd is DMD an actual error term?
If it was exactly alike , it is mint die caused and not damage and if that was the only deductable area , it is possible it received a 69 depending on the rest of the coin. Hard to tell with no photos. Unless I am missing something about the question. Jim
No Jim you answered the question . However I was thinking any striking error was machine error thus not a mint error. I's sort of confusionally explained in Error-Ref in a sub section of Striking errors: Skidding coin errors http://www.error-ref.com/skidding-coin-errors/ plus they were slabbed long before the Error Coin craze came to be...I will retrieve them from the bank today and shoot some pictures. Thanks
My remembering was the early 80's and then of course the GlueTube version of error mania started , what 2013-14. The history of CONECA marks the beginning of the hobby itself https://conecaonline.org/early-history-of-coneca/
Lowle you are gonna have to get us some photos of the steps. Jefferson nickel steps are the last to be struck up. This will leave incomplete steps, especially at the bottom. IE 5 full steps and 6 full steps
Not so much errors but varieties, which back then were lumped together with errors, early to mid 1960's. That was when the 1938 D/S nickels was discovered (the first known overmintmark), several other overmintmarks were discovered or became common knowledge around then, the 55 DDO cent began gaining in popularity. The 60 small dates, the 70 S small dates. Then there was the 69 S DDO, the 42/1 D dime was discovered, and then the 72 DDO was discovered and things really started going. Before the 1960's most collectors and dealers considered error coins to be "defective" and undesirable. Often they were just thrown away.
