I did a search and couldn'tfind anything posted here. Has anybody seen this and what do you think? Worth more than a couple of dollars I would say! http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6223633
Wow. Now I need to find a few of thoughs to. Hope it turns out to be completely legit. You never know. Thanks for sharing the article. Phoenix
This is what happens when the mint mints way too much. But that creates some interesting errors I guess.
I can strongly suspect that it could be a 2007D,that is,if it has been proven to be a genuine error coin. Aidan.
Ohh...that person is LUCKY. I saw somewhere that PCGS was offering $10,000 for grading the first coin with only edge lettering...Just for the chance to grade it, not to buy it..... Sorry, it is actually a $2500 reward =p
Faceless (but not Godless) Dollar http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070314/ap_on_fe_st/faceless_dollar_8 Quite an error.
Strange I wish they would have showed the reverse, it looks like someone removed the face like the start of a magicians coin. The first link in this thread has no pic, but it sound like a blank planchet went through the edge letter press, that would be cool.
The reward for this coin was $2500. PCGS continues to offer a $10,000 reward for the first person who submits for verification a genuine, Sacagawea golden dollar coin mistakenly struck with the edge lettering intended for the new Presidential dollar coins. A $10,000 finder's reward also is being offered to the person who submits the first over-struck example with the both the Sacagawea and Presidential designs on the same coin.
I disagree. At that stage of preparation of a magician's coin there should be a deep, very narrow and well defined, rim. This one has the typical transition of an unmilled planchet.
As I understand the minting process, a cart full of planchets is dumped into a hopper from which they are fed one-by-one into the press, and then into another cart. For the DeadPrez coins they then go through the edge lettering process, which ends up putting them in another cart that dumps them into the machine where they are bagged. If a blank planchet happened to stick in the cart at the first stage, it would still be there when the cart was used to pick up milled coins and take them for edge lettering. That planchet would go through the rest of the process with stamped coins, and unless a QC inspector happened to be awake at the time and removed it, the planchet would get bagged. No one is looking at individual coins when they are being machine counted and wrapped in rolls from the mint bags, so it winds up in circulation.
planchet What I was wondering was the dished center of the planchet. The planches I have seen have flat smooth surfaces so the design will transfer properly with minimal streaks or appearance defects.
The striking of the coin itself will eliminate the dishing in the centre of the planchet,because of the huge amount of pressure that is needed to transfer the designs off the dies onto the planchet,thus making the coin. Aidan.
A blank as punched from the strip will have a flat smooth surface. After it is put through the upsetting machine it will have a slightly raised rim around the edge of the planchet and the surface will appear tpo dish down around the edge and thenbe flat across most of the face of the planchet. The coin we have in question here was not struck, and then was put through the edge lettering machine. In effect it has had the edge of the blank upset twice, the first time raising a rim and the second time increasing the height of that rim while impressing the letters into the edge. For that reason the dishing from the rim down to the flat faces of the coin is greater than that seen on a normal unstruck planchet.
That is what i was thinking when the news agencies made such a big deal about the clean edge coins a week or so ago. You have to admit, it is great free publicity. After all, the cost to the mint is the same to make error coins vs legit coins
ditto I started thinking the same thing when I was reading my numismatic news last night.:thumb: It makes me wonder if any more "mistakes" will come with the Adam,s dollar?
