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<p>[QUOTE="vtown98, post: 1308630, member: 34455"]I got lucky when I ordered some $5 gold coins from a magazine. I ended up with 10 1999 gold eagles. 8 were with the "w" (known as mint error coins) and 2 were not.</p><p>One "w" coin was much different than the others. It has stars missing around the front of the obverse and also other errors. Obviously the errors are from a worn out die but I have not seen or heard of any other of these coins with this same "errors". PCGS has graded this coin ms67. I'm hoping I have something unique on a unique coin. Here are some pics. </p><p>Anybody have some observations?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1341.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1341.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1341.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1340.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1340.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1340.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1339.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1339.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1339.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1338.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1338.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1338.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1337.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1337.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1337.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1336.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1336.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1336.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1335.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1335.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1335.jpg</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="vtown98, post: 1308630, member: 34455"]I got lucky when I ordered some $5 gold coins from a magazine. I ended up with 10 1999 gold eagles. 8 were with the "w" (known as mint error coins) and 2 were not. One "w" coin was much different than the others. It has stars missing around the front of the obverse and also other errors. Obviously the errors are from a worn out die but I have not seen or heard of any other of these coins with this same "errors". PCGS has graded this coin ms67. I'm hoping I have something unique on a unique coin. Here are some pics. Anybody have some observations? [URL]http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1341.jpg[/URL] [URL]http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1340.jpg[/URL] [URL]http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1339.jpg[/URL] [URL]http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1338.jpg[/URL] [URL]http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1337.jpg[/URL] [URL]http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1336.jpg[/URL] [URL]http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt173/vtown98/IMG_1335.jpg[/URL][/QUOTE]
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