Thanks for the heads-up on the Washington Dollar Errors!

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I just wanted to thank all of the Posters that have posted information about the Washington Dollar Errors! I had almost decided to lay off purchasing any of the coins right away but after I read some of the posts about the errors, I changed my mind and am very happy I did so! I purchased a roll of P's and a roll of D's yesterday and found the following today when checking them before 2x2'ing them:

9 each 2007-D's with upside down edge lettering and extra letters on the edge

4 each 2007-D's with right side up edge lettering but with extra letters on the edge

11 each 2007-D's with just upside down edge lettering

9 each 2007-P's with just upside down edge lettering

33 error coins from two rolls and 13 of them have a fairly high dollar potential! I am amazed!!!!!:thumb:

 

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congradulations huntsman. I Have a philly roll that is going to be hard not to bust open. four friends and I managed to get one roll each from the first 10 rolls that became available In our little town. So far no more rolls have become available. Noticed on the few loose ones we got that there is an O or a zero just before the "in god we trust" Not sure that is suppose to be there of if that is an error. Seems to be so much wrong with these coins.

 

man, i think if you want to sell them, sell them fast, it seems the soon the errors will be more common than the regular coin!

 

Think I read in here that the upside down lettering is not an error. In the process of stamping the rim lettering , the coin can be fed into the thingy with the obverse up or down. This is strictly random. Now as far as the extra lettering and the large letters, that could be another matter.

 

The letters being up side down is no error---since the lettering is put on the planchets before the coin is struck the planchet might go into the collar any number of ways....

Speedy

 

Especially the imaginary errors, like the "upside down" lettering on a coin that has random orientation in the edge-lettering machine!

Actually, the sequence is the other way around - coin press than edge lettering machine.

 

see attached...

 

Now, that's an error!

But, with all these errors appearing on the new dollars, it makes me think just how common errors are going to be. I know some errors will be more blatant than others, but for the most part, I think this series will be FULL of errors.

 

What's that say ?

Great fine

 

That error doesn't make "cents" if the coin/planchet was put back in the edge lettering machine then there would be double letters...and on this one only SOME of the letters are doubled....

Speedy

 

The letters I see:
RT IRBUUSST U
R I B U S U
T R U S T

"e pluribus unum" overstuck with "In God we trust?"

 

i found that error on http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12159

 

ah.....now I see what it is....

Speedy

 

Just to let you know, the extra lettering that I found are just random letters strewn in between letters or between words or between words and the Date. They are letters that are used in the Motto and Legend and are probably due to to edge of the coin still being in contact or very close proximity with the lettering machinery while it was being retracted from it's task and it suffered a burp or jitter.

While the upside down edge lettering may or may not be an error in the eyes of the Error Coin experts, coins with such are still selling for 5 to 10 or more times the face value of the coins! Until the Mints come out with a Notice declaring that these are not actual errors, then they will still sell for above their' face value!

 

I have to respectfully disagree. Since Mint officials have already been quoted in the major numismatic periodicals about the two-step process and random insertion of stamped coins into the edge-lettering machine, I have to paraphrase your statement this way: "Until people stop believing all the phony hype going the rounds, then these non-errors will still sell for above their face value."

 

I got 4 rolls the other day. I went through one roll and didn't notice any thing wrong with them. I don't know what I'm going to do with the other 3 rolls. I might just hold on to them for a while, see what other errors pop up.

 

With all due respect to thiose involved, anyone who pays 5 or 20 times face for this is an idiot, as is the seller who is trying to hype it up.

The Mint has already advised long ago that there is no specific orientation to the edge lettering and that it will vary based on which way the coin enters the edge lettering machine.

 

You all have apparently mis-read the information that the U.S. Mint wrote concerning the Incused-Edge Inscriptions! They state the following: "Due to the minting process used on the circulating coins, the edge-incused inscription positions will vary with each coin." This means that the inscription will vary in position in reference to where it may start or end on the coin's edge (i.e. on one coin the inscription may start at K-12:00 while on another, it may start at K-5:30 and start at K-9:00 on another). This in no way references whether the inscription should be rightside up or upside down in reference to the Obverse of the coin. I have copied and pasted below the link to their' website page with this information.

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/index.cfm?action=EdgeIncused

If the upside down Inscriptions on the edge of the coins is proven to be an error, then the bigger hype would be those who dispell them as being errors, thus harming the collectibilty of any coins with such an error as well as harming those who own them and those who sell them!

 

I have like 6 rolls from my bank all Philly and opened 3 so far and almost half are upside down. With this % it is hard to think it is a error. The rolls I got from Mint (Denver) I have not opened yet.


PS here is Pic of Mint Roll D