2009 Sacagawea Mint Mark in different locations on edge?

1836 Bust half lll-o-1 Over lapping Edge /motto/design Error
Have a look at this edge lettering error I posted. Most edge lettering errors are not worth much as a premiun. But are very cool errors. I wonder why they don't bring more of a premiun?

 

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I'm always amazed at all of the varieties in the Bust Half series and yet most of these can be bought at very modest prices. There are some edge letter varieties in the Red Book, but not all of them. You need to go to the specialized books to really get a feel for them.

It's all supply and demand. There's just a lot more collectors of Morgan dollars than Bust halves. Marketing and hype can help the demand. That's why varieties listed in the Red Book or Coin World get higher prices simply because they're listed.

 

Better to use a clean 100% cotton or lint free cloth. Kleenex is full of little bits of dust and lint that can stick to the coin and cause ugly spotted toning.

 

Looks like we have another error to check for huh

Regards,
Stan

 

No not really. There is a lot of cases of slippage on the edge dies. If you were to take just about any given roll and stack them so that say the mintmark was aligned on all of them you would probably find at least one in the roll that shows some slippage somewhere on the edge. Sometimes the slippage is very minor and sometimes it can be disasterous such as when the coin stops rotating and the whole edge tries to be applied in the same spot creating a nice groove in the edge at that spot the same height as the edge letters. If you tried to call the slight slippage coins errors though I think you would be wrong. I would just consider them to be natural variation inherent in the production method.

 

Coin slippage...gosh I love CT, I learn something new every day!

Although I would disagree that this is not an error...this IS an error; it's just a common error with infinite varieties that doesn't command a high premium.

If it wasn't an error, the lettering would be uniform each and every time.

This is still a very neat coin and would agree with others and recommend sending a pic to a coin publication so they could write an educational article on coin slippage.

-LTB

 

That's most interesting and unique.

I would take both to a dealer, reputable one of course, and have them look at it and give you an opinion.

Nice find.

 

I agree. It's just like some common doubling errors which have no premium. The mint didn't plan to have slippage.

This is not like the direction of modern edge lettering being face up or face down where there is no intent to impart a particular direction at the mint.

 

While searching through a roll of dollars to add to my book, I noticed this very same thing on a 2009 D Sacagawea dollar. After a lot of searching on the internet I finally came across this thread. Such great info here I decided to sign up! It sounds possibly like this is not all that uncommon -but I find it interesting that my coin is the same year and mint as echamp's. Would love to see more examples and learn if possibly more common in 2009 than other years?

 

It's not a new variety but merely a case of slippage in the edge lettering machine. More of an interesting anomoly than a coin which has a premium associated with it.

The edge lettering is applied by rolling the coin over the edge lettering die. Occasionally one of them jams and gets pushed through by the coins behind it. This causes the edge lettering to either get jammed together or spread apart.

In some extreme cases, the lettering actually overlaps creating what looks to be doubled edge lettering. ( Ref thread: http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=30&threadid=774870 )

But it is not, it is simply letter overlapping caused by slippage.