$1 grease filled die found today

trout · November 08, 2012, 10:14:34 PM

Quote from: 'Ozcoins' pid='2737' dateline='1352373769'Trout,
I like your description and agree. It's a "monster"!!
I think I had the same reaction when someone else posted a similar "monster greaser" on ccf a while ago.
Having found/held this one, I am fairly confident it Is a legitimate error.
Emu666. Thanks for your post. How did you determine they were 2006? I have not looked at this one with magnification yet, but I do not expect I will be able to read the date at all.

As I am not an error collector/expert I will have to concur with your judgment.
Nice find mate
:wavemulticolor:

Graham · November 10, 2012, 10:26:55 AM

To me 2006 seemed like a great year for strike throughs (I still don't like the US term of greaser). Here a couple that I found.

emu666 · November 10, 2012, 06:14:27 PM

This may have been struck at the start of the trouble:

Some apparently oily foreign object (possibly leather or something similar). After a while the oil starts spreading across the obverse die.

Ozcoins · November 10, 2012, 06:40:30 PM

That is interesting.
I wonder if out is possible to make something like a stop motion video of the progression of the damage?

Ozcoins · November 21, 2012, 09:25:26 PM

Quote from: 'markn' pid='2691' dateline='1352337061'Looks all right to me too. Get it on some scales, if it's within 0.1g of 9.0g I'd call it genuine.

I weighed it today and it was 9.03g

markn · November 22, 2012, 06:58:58 PM

Quote from: 'Ozcoins' pid='3697' dateline='1353495326'
Quote from: 'markn' pid='2691' dateline='1352337061'Looks all right to me too. Get it on some scales, if it's within 0.1g of 9.0g I'd call it genuine.

I weighed it today and it was 9.03g

Real deal. Nice find. :wavemulticolor:

Ozcoins · November 23, 2012, 09:32:40 PM

Just thought I would add a pic of it on the scale

Goldseeker · November 23, 2012, 09:54:27 PM

I have some of these coins and here they are: (All coins weigh 9gms)