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eagames
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:36 pm Reply with quote

In a box there were 24 of these and each is from the same die. Each one is misaligned slightly differently. I could see them through the rolls because the coins like this have one thin edge and one thick edge and the thin edges were cutting through the paper rolls so you could see exactly how many were in each roll. Each coin is like a wedge so if you stack a few it's not straight. It looks like the Obv is aligned with the collar but the Rev was not aligned. It causes the obverses to bulge on the side (opposing side to the thick rev rim) and on some of them it tore the plating but others just bulged in a way that looks neat on an UNC coin.

Are these MADs, any value for them?





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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:37 am Reply with quote

Each looks like an uncentered broadstrike struck against a stiff collar. As with all 2006 cents, the obverse die functioned as the anvil die and the collar surrounds the anvil die.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:09 pm Reply with quote

Thanks Mike,

That makes sense since I had not seen MADs that were bulging like this. It made a neat effect, they look like caps of some sort.

I'm trying to picture how this would get made. Would this be caused by a collar getting stuck to the Anvil die?

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:27 pm Reply with quote

Since the vast majority of recent (post-2001) minor off-center strikes and uncentered broadstrikes look like this, my assumption is that the press design incorporates a stiff collar.
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