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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 7837982, member: 66&quot;]Not an off-center, uncentered broadstrike.&nbsp; But they are still quite rare.&nbsp; Striking errors like this are much rarer after 2002.&nbsp; If this quarter had been say a 1999 it would have been worth MUCH less.&nbsp; Since 2002 they have stepped up their quality control, and they went to horizontal striking presses.&nbsp; On the old vertical presses if the planchet wasn&#039;t fed into the coining chamber properly (off-center) or the collar was pressed down and not present (broadstrike), the planchet sat there on top of the collar and was struck as the dies came together.&nbsp; In the horizontal strike presses if the planchet isn&#039;t properly seated in the collar it falls out of the press so it isn&#039;t there when the dies come together.&nbsp; So for an off-center or broadstrike the dies have to catch the planchet as it falls.&nbsp; This makes these errors much rarer than they used to be.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if $126 is too much, but it probably is in the ball park.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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