Just curious if a premium could be expected on this? I would not pay a premium but that doesnt mean others wouldn't.
Die clashes are interesting. I’m pretty sure they’re very common on the 65 3CN. I’ve also never seen it noted on a label before. I’m not sure if I’d pay a premium for one; maybe 2 or 3%. If it was an extraordinarily severe clash, then I may consider a 10-15% premium.
I've paid a premium before for coins with severe clashes or where they were diagnostic for a die remairrage.
The Hammer Die and the Anvil Die struck each other because there was a Blank Planchet missing between them.. That's a Mint Error!
Quote - " Die Clash PART IV. Die Errors: Clashed Die or Die Clash Definition: This mishap occurs when opposing dies collide with each other when a planchet fails to be fed into the striking chamber. Most complete planchet misfeeds don’t result in clashed dies because dies normally don’t touch each other in the absence of a planchet. The dies operate with a safety margin that can be referred to as minimum die clearance or minimum die distance. These terms refer to the closest approach the dies make to each other in the absence of a planchet. In order for dies to clash, the dies must have fallen out of adjustment so that their minimum clearance is zero (or less than zero)." .... Closed quote http://www.error-ref.com/die_clash/
Don't get me wrong. It is definitely a die error. It is NOT, however, a coin error. Errors on coins are unique to the specific coin and are not reproducible. Clashed error dies can strike the same coins with clash marks over and over again, making it either a variety or simply a die stage marker on the coin, but the coin is not an error. Let's say you had a pair of fresh dies and the first strike had no planchet and produced a clash. Then those dies were used to strike the entire mintage of a coin. The entire mintage of that coin does not consist entirely of error coins. That's just not how it works. TPGs will slab them this way if you request it and pay them to do so, but they are not really errors.
