2016 Silver Eagle oddity

It appears this occurrence on an eagle can possibly be quite valuable....
http://m.ebay.com/itm/2004-US-1-Sil...e-Through-Mint-Error-/361498099692?nav=SEARCH

 

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Yeah, any ASE error is rather uncommon, and the one you link is a clear case of a strike-thru. I'm still not sure what the other ones posted here are.

 

I'm basing my (guess) off of the fact that it's on the anvil die (bottom), on the lowest possible part of the die right in middle of the coin. Which is normally where grease/debris ends up getting trapped..... The OP coin obviously, not the others mentioned in the thread

 

Well it looks like a hit, how coild many coins have the same hit in the same place? How about a a hit, no on the coin, but on a working hub. The hub has the same raised dsin the con does, but if it takes a hit and is then used to make a die, coins from that die will show the same apparent hit on every piece.

 

By George I think conder may be on to something... not a die dent but a "hub dent." I didn't even think of that. Makes sense though as to why it looks like an incuse hit but also looks like it was a die artifact.

Positive (coin), negative (die), positive (hub)

 

Sounds like we may have a 2016 ASE variety/error here, no?
I have another that looks like the start of the 'problem', in addition to the other 8 coins with the issue in question. I'll take a pic when I get home from work.

 

And that's why NGC & PCGS are the top graders, and why their grade 70's command a higher price at resale.

 

I'm wondering if the other 2 companies graded them 70s due to the coin material being flawed, opposed to the actual minting/striking of the coin, not to say I would agree with that.

 

Here are a couple of pics of the early stage of the "issue".

 

"Beginning?"... If there are examples in various stages it wouldn't be a hub issue

That pic is too bleached out to tell anything

 

Could this coin be the odd one out of the bunch that didn't sit on the hub the same? IDK, just throwing theories out there. I do have 9 others, which all have the same, more pronounced, "mark" on them and another poster (Paddy54) stated that he saw this on at least one coin at a show over the weekend. Paddy54 - "And I may add looked at some today at a show and yes some had this and some didn't."

 

Post a pic of the anomaly on each coin consecutively in one post and let's see if @mikediamond can chime in with that he thinks when.he logs on. Try to get the photo lineup up asap now that I've tagged him

 

I just did a random search for the hell of it. When you get a minute, check out the Rev. of this 2013. It's small but there is something happening here as well.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2013-W-Amer...525297?hash=item2363b2eaf1:g:M4gAAOSwwE5WbLWq

 

Wow! From what I see, that looks the same as my coins.
A little pricey for me, but maybe I should grab it, in case this turns into something, lol.

 

I took a quick look at a few other years, and it appears on some of those as well.

Here it is in 2011:



In 2005:



In 2003:



Looking at them individually, it would be easy to dismiss it as PMD/coin hit (which I'm sure I have done), but as we can see, there is a pattern of the same or similar anomaly in the same area over different years, and multiple coins in the same year (I have 8 from 2016, after selling one to a friend, and with a quick look, multiples within other years).