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<p>[QUOTE="superc, post: 1730915, member: 44079"]OMG, Frank Spadone?!? LoL! Now there is a name I literally haven't seen written or heard in decades and decades. </p><p>Actually I do have 1 or 2 recent vintage books. Let me say the 2013 Redbook is of minimal help when it comes to error coins. Yes, sure pics of some extreme examples, but little guidance in identifying errors, or error classifications. Likewise, no value is shown for many, many known error coins, or if they do show a value (as far as pennies go) it is only for MS or PF state pennies. Many, many of the penny coins I handle are G4 - EF, so discussion of unseen MS or PF is of only value to set a 'not more than' price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, agreed that Page 121 of the 2013 Redbook refers to the 1955 as a 'popular double-DIE' error. To me, this is a new term. I called it what the ad 'do you have this coin in your pocket?' inside the 1960s comic books called it. A 1955 Double Strike. </p><p><br /></p><p>So okay, I shouldn't use the old term anymore. Point made. </p><p><br /></p><p>That terminology issue being settled, we return to my point. I am and will probably remain unable to discern (without a much greater than 5x magnification) in worn business class coins the difference in the case of wider letters or filled in mintmarks between a doubled die coin and a coin damaged and worn in use unless it is something really extreme like the 1955 double die coin pictured.</p><p><br /></p><p>What are the implications from this? A) I am probably not alone. Knowing something exists is of little value if you can't discern it.</p><p>B) I am losing money because I handle and pass by wide lettered and filled in mint mark coins by the scores every week. C) If you have one, it may be worth more tomorrow because I will be throwing a few pounds of them into Coinstar today and while some may enter circulation again, some probably won't. </p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="superc, post: 1730915, member: 44079"]OMG, Frank Spadone?!? LoL! Now there is a name I literally haven't seen written or heard in decades and decades. Actually I do have 1 or 2 recent vintage books. Let me say the 2013 Redbook is of minimal help when it comes to error coins. Yes, sure pics of some extreme examples, but little guidance in identifying errors, or error classifications. Likewise, no value is shown for many, many known error coins, or if they do show a value (as far as pennies go) it is only for MS or PF state pennies. Many, many of the penny coins I handle are G4 - EF, so discussion of unseen MS or PF is of only value to set a 'not more than' price. Yes, agreed that Page 121 of the 2013 Redbook refers to the 1955 as a 'popular double-DIE' error. To me, this is a new term. I called it what the ad 'do you have this coin in your pocket?' inside the 1960s comic books called it. A 1955 Double Strike. So okay, I shouldn't use the old term anymore. Point made. That terminology issue being settled, we return to my point. I am and will probably remain unable to discern (without a much greater than 5x magnification) in worn business class coins the difference in the case of wider letters or filled in mintmarks between a doubled die coin and a coin damaged and worn in use unless it is something really extreme like the 1955 double die coin pictured. What are the implications from this? A) I am probably not alone. Knowing something exists is of little value if you can't discern it. B) I am losing money because I handle and pass by wide lettered and filled in mint mark coins by the scores every week. C) If you have one, it may be worth more tomorrow because I will be throwing a few pounds of them into Coinstar today and while some may enter circulation again, some probably won't. [LEFT][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/LEFT][/QUOTE]
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