Please check out these photo's.. I found this one today.. about 1/4 of the edge is gone.. What do you think happened? please tell me it's an error please tell me this is a great error.. click on the photos...they enlarge
I can't quite tell but it looks like a post mint damage - someone tired to saw it into half. Appearently it seems that there is a trend of sawing off the half of a quarter and dollar coin and create a new "error" coin.
Well I don't think so... I got it out of roll, opened it myself.. I think it's an error.. and I wish there was someone in my area to go show it too.
Thank You Nickelman.. I really do think this is a really nice error, and I would think a pretty rare one, here are a few more photos, close ups..
interesting yes that's what I thought when I found it.. very interesting I had someone tell me it looked like the edge-lettering die cracked along the periphery, can anyone tell me what that means? Also I read that an error and a die variety were much different..would this be a die variety I also went looking on this site, for information.. and read * Error/Variety Checklist - by Mike Diamond* my gosh, so much to learn.. how could a person learn about all everything on that checklist in one life time. He must be a very smart man, he sure know's his stuff when it comes to coins.
It does look like the machine that puts the edge lettering on the planchets has a problem. Looks like it broke in the middle of it going through the machine. I'm not sure how that machine works so I can't be sure. Speedy
Looking at the first pic, the dot has closed the crack a bit, so the crack was there before the edge lettering was applied. I would guess it is a split clad layer, but it is curious that it goes 360. Intriguing.
Lots here for me to think about.. Thank's to all of you for looking, and for taking the time to post your thoughts about it. You've given me lots of things to think about it...
Well you were right.. I got myself an real error.. And it's on a dollar coin, that's even better... It's some kind of split planchet error. an odd one/different then most..is what I have been told.. I still don't really understand it, but at least I found out what kind of error it is.
ok I have another one..please look ok..I have this one too.. This is a Jefferson also.. This one has a chunk gone out of the rim.. I took some really close shot's, so maybe you can see and tell me what something like this would be called.. I took a photo of the reverse side too if you all need one.
I wish I could see this thing in person but what it looks lke to me is a hub crack. The hub used to make the edge die cracked. When it hubbed the die the crack left a raised line on the edge die which created the incused linewe see here on the edge of the coin. The other piece just looks like a post mint damaged rim.
