1973 20c strange mark

[Robster]

I would name it "Struck through Barber Shop Floor" variety.!!:laugh2:

[Fulvio]

That's pretty awesome, Mark. Here's one I just found a few minutes ago:

https://plus.google.com/100294995440554808691/posts/bCQQ7mJbKxo


Hard to tell about George's neck, but some of the lines in the lettering look raised rather than indented. Does the coin have multiple problems?

[robbiegal]

Hi Fulvio
Nice coin there - I have a penny with what looks like wire but can't find the pic\here 2 shots of my KGVI with the steel wool looking pattern
does appear to have quite a scatter of light dies cracks on the obverse, so it was probably getting the end of the life for that die

Here's the coolest strike-through I've seen.  Struck through a spring that's still there.

amazing
looks like a Picasso!

[markn]

That nickel struck through the spring is up for sale on a US site for about $8k.  A bit pricey for me  Here's the best strike through that PPH and I have.  We believe it was struck through a crescent shaped piece of planchet.  Perhaps the moon shaped bit that is left over when an elliptical clipped planchet is formed.

[purplepennyhunter]

You have a 20c struck though something Mark, dig that out.

[markn]

You have a 20c struck though something Mark, dig that out.

This one:



And there's this threepence which has been struck through a folded scrap of metal.  Perhaps part of a planchet.

[Fulvio]

Gorgeous, both of them.

Why is it I can never find anything remotely like that on UNC coins? Only the most used and abused, usually with cancer, malicious damage, or both.

[keldaw]

hi fulvio  , same here , I have never found any coin with a stand out error on it ,. maybe we don't have the right connections ,
 even when I go to buy any of ebay , I always get outbid .so now I have given up on them ..   ,, kel ,,

[markn]

The 20c struck through wire came off of eBay.  The threepence struck through debris came off of eBay.  The struck through florin came from a dealers book at a Melbourne ANDA a few years ago.  There's no black magic in finding these coins, you just need to look, search, keep looking, keep searching, and then look some more.  And be patient.

[keldaw]

thanks mark , I know that mate , and I am still looking all the time and even my wife and neighbours are helping me now ,. my wife just walked in and gave me a 1950 penny she found in the kitchen draw under every thing else and on sat my heighbour rang me and asked if a 1938 penny had any value ..    ,, kel ,,

[ausjack]

my wife just walked in and gave me a 1950 penny she found in the kitchen draw under every thing else and on sat my heighbour rang me and asked if a 1938 penny had any value .. ,, kel ,,

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:shock: what what what..I'd be rippin the rest of the house apart, rip the carpet up wall down, never know what ya might find..just don't get caught  :winkextra:

[keldaw]

ripped up the corner of the carpet  , got nothing ,

 what you talking about man , have you been searching in my house , ?  A J ..    how you know we hide our money there , under the corner of the carpet  , please don't tell the p m  Julia , or she will make me pay more tax ..    ,, kel ,,

[Fulvio]

LOL! You guys are funny...

After going through my backlog of $2, $1 and 50¢, I've got maybe $800 to bank, and perhaps 200 "keepers". Those break down into aUNC, "common" errors, and a small handful of "finds"... things like planchet flaws, die cracks, that strikethrough... but all of the good stuff has pretty major damage of one sort or another, whereas a lot of what I'm throwing back is in really, really good nick.

Why couldn't the good stuff be the ones in top condition, and the rejects crappy instead of the other way around?

CURSE YOU, MURPHY, AND YOUR LAW!