Has there been public sales of defaced US Denver die with COA before? Has anyone seen a COA like this? @Fred Weinberg @Conder101 @Hookman
Hi Lowle, Fred would be the man to ask about these. He recently bought and sold a large quantity of dies. We have had a recent thread on a very similar subject. You've read that thread?
Yes, the COA is real, these sets (coin and defaced state quarter die) were sold by the mint to collectors. I believe they were $50 apiece. I believe the dies the Fred bought and sold were from the 1968 proof profuction.
Yeah, they were quite common, anybody could buy them. The mint advertised them on their website for years. Not sure if they still are or not.
I think the idea behind owning one of these is the simple concept of owning something that was once used in the U.S. mint. I don't think anyone is planning to mint more coins with them. After all, that would be illegal. It's not my cup of tea, but it may be someone else's. It's kinda like owning the used and broken planchet strips that coin blanks were punched out of. They're just a chunk of metal. What's the point? Collecting the dies is a similar concept as collecting anything else coin related. As far as collecting itself goes : " There's a person for every collectable, and a collectable for every person. "
@paddyman98 There are those that can't make history, although some like to still be a part of it by having a small piece of it. Let's take error coins. You have, IMHO decided to MAKE history and amass as many examples of errors you can. Your personal and professional way to steer your legacy. From the claim of how long you have been collecting errors (much longer than their popularity) you must have either inside info. or (my feeling) an innate feeling that a coin that didn't look right one way or the other must have some importance or significance and now, your are a PART of history. Your mass of examples is just proof that your thoughts and feelings as a youth were correct all along and I commend you for that. On a side note, my father taught us a long time ago that anybody is likely to pay anything for something they like. That's why each time we got a new house, he would list it with the local broker for x2 what he paid for it just in case. Kudos my friend oh yea and @Hookman that small triangle of webbing and the 2 anvil die was just part of the deal to get to the 2c 1864 Large Motto that turned out to be the Small motto. Plus they were in the Denver mint in 1993, I wasn't so to me that's cool and collectable. Lowle
I did find a 2010 thread about used die. About the same comments as I'm seeing today pro and con. There was a picture of a coa that didn't have the same bureaucratic never change a thing look to it as the one I saw on Ebay and was signed by a Denver director the other by a Phila. director but the forms are not the same watermark-wise anyway..
I like the NGC encapsulated cancelled or defaced service - https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/7018/cancelled-dies/
