Proof 50 cent piece--error of somekind--I am not a coim guy

You are right about Fred having incredible knowlege. He has been dealing in coins for almost as long as I have been collecting coins or maybe longer. before the internet he send out little magazines with his error coins for sale. Back in 1972 or maybe 73 I bought a big group of the 1972 die #2 doubled die cent coins from him for something like 50 cents each. then back about 5 years ago I sold some of them on Ebay for around 30.00 each and thought the bidders were crazy , now they are worth over 100.00 each.

 

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I am shocked by what some of those minor errors go for, it used to be the three leg, the 55 DDO, the 42/1 or something like that commanding such high premiums. Things that you could see with the naked eye. Now I'm hearing about some coins with minor die variations that you need something like a 10 or 15x glass to see bringing good money.

I have huge bags of buffalo nickels, wheat cents and plenty of silver that has never been cherry picked. Perhaps it's time for a little extra vacation money.

 

A 10x loupe is what I use and you are right some of the good errors or varietys are hard to see by the naked eye. I would not recommend anything above 10X because if it is that minor it is no good anyway in my book. Some coin experts are going way overboard by listing so much trash and confusing the newer collectors. I hope you find some good ones if you do decide to check out your coins.

 

It was struck through. Even if there is hair detail in the area where the error occured, a thin enough object would have allowed for some of this design to show through.

I have never seen a die chip rise out of the die and cause an indentation into a coin. I can't wrap my head around the possiblity of this happening and creating a coin like the op posted. Please post an example if you have one!

 

Agreed, I'd like to see an example of a retained die chip too. It's a new term on me.
It looks to me like the OP's coin is nothing more than a simple strike through.

 

You should have added. "Just make sure the source of your learning is someone really knowledgable and not someone throwing out some hair-brained theories."