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Well, cheap in a sense you have a 1 oz. gold coin in MS-66 for little over gold value. Plus its pretty...

 

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Yes, I can agree with that. Beautiful coin, I have never owned one of them (yet).

 

I still need the AV 5 Dollar Indian type. Augustus St. Gaudens designed these for President Theodore Roosevelt. He died just as the first coins where struck

 

It doesn't look like the coin was altered so I am thinking it was caused by a grease filled die.

 

Or....maybe they where drunk on the job, botched up the die. Upper Canada was a rowdy place/ more taverns then churchs/ lots of brawling between the Irish and the French Canadiens

 

The rest of the coin looks so perfect, it makes me think those missing letters were not an accident. Could have been carefully milled off then tooled smooth, or an altered die used on the reverse? Wonder if this is a known die variety?

 

When I do USB shots on my latest batch I'll get some better shots of the surface.

 

Mexico
AV 8 Escudos 1744-Mo Mexico City Mint
Philip V of Spain

 

Here are some closer views of the missing letters...

F



Y



K



T

 

Yes, can see some trace of the missing letters, good close up pix.

 

The only other coin I have showing a debris filled die is this cent I found in my pocket change.

 

I guess those machines minting coins run at the speed of machine guns, spitting out coins in a stream. There are bound to be some misfires and jams at times.

 

Mexico, USA, Canada 1999 1 dollar

 

Canada -> Newfoundland

Newfoundland
1911 CE
50 Cents​

 

Spain - 50 Centimos, 1904

 

France
AV Double Louis d'or 1786-N Montpelier Mint
Louis XVI 1774-93

 

France -> Navarre

Kingdom of Navarre
1516-1566 CE
Issued under Carlos (Charles V)
AE Dinero; 0.72g 18mm
Pamplona Mint
Obv: SIT NOMEN DOM around center N
Rev: P between Pillars of Hercules, PLVS VLTRA​

 

Navarre-----Dombes

 

Dombes -> Geneva

Republic of Geneva
1795 CE
3 Sols​

 

Geneve=Oberwalden