not a cud but blockage error...look again you'll see the blockage error and no flow of the extra metal . looking at the other pictures I see that PCGS sez it's a cud.. looks like blockage to me IMHO.
That's what I was thinking...but if PCGS sez it's a cud, then it's a cud (I guess). I'm not an error collector, but $700 seems a bit pricey. I would rather have a spouse coin.
I'm glad someone else see's what I see about this coin....and have seen TPG's make plenty of mistakes !
They didn't make a mistake on this one. Nearly half of the obverse die has broken off causing the metal to raise into the void. This in turn has caused the metal to not make contact with the reverse die leaving a hollow area with no image on it. This is exactly what happens with a major cud. I also don't understand your term "blockage error". I googled it and in refrence to coins is only brings up posts by you. Please explain what you mean by "blockage error". Richard
It is rather spectacular no matter what you wish to call it but I dont think $700 worth (Well not to me LOL)
Definitely a very large cud. This is probably a very rare cud because I cant see how they wouldn't notice this pretty quickly.
Thanks for the explaintion...the reverse strike had me confused. Definately not brockage. From Wikipedia...
Oops, I must not be awake yet. I thought you wrote brockage error. I have never heard of a blockage error. What is that?
What I see is clearly an excessive die break but I've never heard it called blockage. :goofer: I also think the asking price is too much but the owner can do with it whatever they wish. :bow: Ribbit
Now, I'm assuming this type of error is caused when a coin from the previous either isn't relesed completely, or has fallen back into the die partially. Please let me know if I'm even close. I've never seen this type of error before. Very unique, but not worth $700.
