I opened a mint sewn bag of 2023 Kennedy halves, and this was the first coin I looked at. A nice die crack from the E in liberty to the rim. I thought Oh Boy am I going to find a nice group of progressive die cracks in this bag! No luck! It was the only die crack out of all 200 coins. Bummer. I also found this damaged struck in coin. It looks like the coin took a hit somehow and a peeled piece of metal got struck into the coin between the T and the Y of liberty. Unfortunately, no other errors were found. This was better than my typical batting average at finding errors in mint sewn bags which, up until this, bag had been zero.
My friend. That's called a Rim Burr Definitely a mint error! Here is an example from my collection on the reverse of a Kennedy.. I hope this takes away your 'Disappointment'
I was on a train in the subway tunnel so I was typing fast any time I had a signal. That's how mispelled words occur..
He means the quality. I opened a bank sealed roll of 1963-D half dollars, and could not find one coin that was better than MS-63. There was only one of those. I then understood why the Greysheet prices for MS-64 and better were so high.
Well, I learn something new every day. Now I feel a lot better knowing I found two errors in that bag. Thanks everyone for letting me know what a rim burr is. Is it worth getting it slabbed?
