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Error coin in 2003 Silver Proof Sets??..
One of the advertisers in the August 25rd, 2003 issue of Coin World, the one
with a small picture of the error COA on the cover, one of the big display ad dealers selling the sets made a reference to a "rumor about an error coin" in the sets.. does anyone know anything about an error coin, or maybe he meant to say error COA, or not.. I got my sets in the mail the other day and aside for a couple of little gray 1/8" long horizontal marks on one of the Kennedy Halves, and a couple of little marks on the fat rim of one of the Brass Bucks, and the usual dead bugs, pieces of knockwurst, and a booger or two, they look fine, and the COA is the corrected one not the original LQQK LQQK RARE!! error one.. The coins in both sets are all PCGS PR69 DCAM, or ICG PR70 DCAM, or ACG PR112 DCAM ... So I don't know what kind of error coin that dealer is rumoring about, or if it's just intentionally misworded hype to get people to buy sets from him for a dollar more than The Mint charges.. Harv |
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Harv,
I received my CW in the mail today and there was nothing mentioned of an error coin. They did say the COA's had the wrong compositions and weights on two of the coins. But that has all been fixed now. They are sending the sets out with only the correct COA's in them and for us, who received the wrong COA's, we should be receiving the new COA's within 2 weeks. bob |
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Harv wrote:
One of the advertisers in the August 25rd, 2003 issue of Coin World, the one with a small picture of the error COA on the cover, one of the big display ad dealers selling the sets made a reference to a "rumor about an error coin" in the sets.. does anyone know anything about an error coin, or maybe he meant to say error COA, or not.. I got my sets in the mail the other day and aside for a couple of little gray 1/8" long horizontal marks on one of the Kennedy Halves, and a couple of little marks on the fat rim of one of the Brass Bucks, and the usual dead bugs, pieces of knockwurst, and a booger or two, they look fine, and the COA is the corrected one not the original LQQK LQQK RARE!! error one.. The coins in both sets are all PCGS PR69 DCAM, or ICG PR70 DCAM, or ACG PR112 DCAM .. So I don't know what kind of error coin that dealer is rumoring about, or if it's just intentionally misworded hype to get people to buy sets from him for a dollar more than The Mint charges.. Harv I thought someone posted here about a Jeff die rotation in a Silver Proof. Maybe my rememberer is mumbling. Alan 'oh yea, him' |
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wrote in message ... Harv, I received my CW in the mail today and there was nothing mentioned of an error coin. They did say the COA's had the wrong compositions and weights on two of the coins. But that has all been fixed now. They are sending the sets out with only the correct COA's in them and for us, who received the wrong COA's, we should be receiving the new COA's within 2 weeks. bob The mention of an error coin was in one of the big display ad dealer's ads, not in the cover story.. the dealer, I dunno, Paul Sims or one of that ilk, with a big spread has 2003 Silver Proof Sets for $32.95 and in the little box in his big ad makes mention of a "rumor of an error coin" in the Sets.. comb through it, you'll find it.. it's on a right hand page.. I got my sets the other day. I ordered two days after ordering opened and they were instantly backordered and shipped about a week later, and I got the corrected COAs in both of them. Then someone here mentioned this error coin cold be a rotated reverse Jefferson Nickel so I checked my sets and yes one of them is slightly rotated but that's because it's stuck into the cardboard holder insert thingy slightly rotated :-/ .. Actually, with a Jefferson Nickel, it's hard to tell exactly where true horizontal is on the obverse since there aren't any horizontal lines on the obverse at all.. and the legends run down both sides of Tom's bust, curved, just inside the rim. On some other coins, where the year runs horizontally, like, uhh.. all the others .. it's easy to orient the coin "straight up" and then flip them over and see if the reverse is rotated at all.. Harv |
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The mention of an error coin was in one of the big display ad dealer's ads,
not in the cover story. When the only mention of a "possible" error coin is in dealer hype--not in any editorial source anywhere--you can take it for granted it is just salesmanship, not fact. You could make the same claim-- "rumors" about a "possible" error--about any US Mint product. Doesn't make it true. Regards, Tom |
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