Yeah that one circulated quite a bit. Goes to show most people don't really look at coins. To think all the people who had the opportunity to snag a nice error and just let it slip through their fingers.
It think it is curious how those can circulate that long without someone snagging it. Sometime in the future I am going to image a couple of 1983 nickels that show a cud break progression - both were found in circulation and about a year apart, I found the progressive break earlier this year.
What a find!... does the planchet get stuck to the upper die and then a repeat strike puts... God we... again on the obverse? Not quite sure how it works, but wow, don't care how it was done, great find... love seeing it.
Back then most errors were not considered to be valuable. Things like clips and off-centers were often consigned to the garbage can, even by dealers. An error such as this one could still be passed off fairly easily in change because the size was not off. So rather than keep it most people would try to "pass off" the defective coin onto so other inattentive person.
Very, very cool! I think you could get $200.00 for it any day! But throw it on eBay and who knows how high the bids will fly?! I may even place a couple of my own... If that is the route you're taking for selling it, throw me a link to the auction when you get the chance.
Neat error. But the best part is that it circulated so much, it would be far less interesting as a mint state coin IMO.
