Here is mine, a 1970 Canadian nickel dollar, with the GAN 1918-1970 stamped on it. When Gamal Abdel Nasser, then the highly popular President of...
I recently sold a Flying Eagle cent and a Liberty nickel with counterstamps... I just figured I would let it loose at 99 cents, and was pleasantly...
I was really annoyed when eBay removed the * function from their search queries...
Looks like a collar clash to me. By the way, I don't mind helping you out identify your errors, but when you list them on eBay with the...
Same die (from the same hub and matrix)... in your case, one die was brand new, the other was started to deteriorate.
You guys crack me up... [ATTACH]
I'll be somewhere, in the middle of nowhere, northern Labrador, Canada. Being a geologist usually means I always miss the summertime coin shows......
Many years ago, there was one online coin forum in Canada, CCRS... one gentlemen there was a token dealer and offered an interesting 1859 to a...
Looks like a really nice cracked planchet to me...
I think this guy did it... [ATTACH]
Bah.... that is silver... try collecting a lowball series struck in pure nickel....
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Have you looked at the Switzerland 1, 2 and 5 Ore coins, from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s?? They have incuse devices on both sides, and are...
Doubled dies are not considered "errors" up here... folks just don't care about that. However, striking errors and off-metal planchet errors are...
Definitely PMD...
They are scarce... just no interest...
Just a follow up... my article on this coin was published in the July issue of Errorscope, and made the front cover! :snaphappy: [ATTACH]
Looks like a strike-through error to me - PMD would affect the plating and show the underlying zinc or steel planchet...
The scratches are rounded, low relief troughs - looks like they were made with a ball point pen.
Doubled dies (I assume you are referring to hub doubling) are not popular with Canadian coins... I published about a 1-cent 1967 doubled die in...
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