at first I was just thinking it was a pretty cool off center. when I see broadstruck coins in photos they look bigger than the normal size of that denomination. when I went to throw this into my "cool find" tube it didn't want to fit as pictured. see is it my first? or just an off center? thanks
looks more off center rather than broadstruck, but yea the size difference is there along with the lack of edge reeding. Cool find.
Oh oh I know this one! What you have there is uncentered broadstrike http://www.error-ref.com/broadstrikes/ @paddyman98 r u proud of me
ok thanks a bunch. I have found a few pretty cool things. this, and some nice cuds, even a quarter missing its obv layer. the things that continue to elude me are the major DD's the 2009 d wddr-001, the Wisconsin extra leaf, the 72 p LC 001, etc. I think I will feel complete when I stumble upon one. until then... the hunt continues
Ah so this is what he has...http://www.error-ref.com/?s=off+center+strike @mikediamond on the obverse of this error I don't see the collar scar which is described in the off center strike error section. It does say "often" so is it safe to assume that a collar scar is not the authoritative tell tale sign, but its the devices being sharply cut off, which signify it being an off center strike?
I suspect this coin was struck with a conventional die setup (obverse die as hammer die). 1996 is rather early for inverted die setups in the Philadelphia Mint (Denver was the pioneer). So a collar scar would more likely be located on the reverse face. In any case, a collar scar is not always present in off-center strikes, so the key diagnostic is a design that is cut off on one or both faces. Collar scars can also be found on uncentered broadstrikes, so it's not a useful diagnostic for discriminating between uncentered broadstrikes and off-center strikes.
ok thanks mike. I never noticed it on any other. i only did this time because it didn't fit in the tube properly.
