Noodling finds

trout · February 01, 2014, 08:15:57 AM

Nice rotation Jeff :good:
Every time I get one of these in my change I check it out, NONE so far :angel:

Ozcoins · February 01, 2014, 09:36:51 AM

Nice one Jeff!
Maybe you will get 3 rabbit ears in your next search too.
Trout,
They seem to take a lot of searching to find, but I am sure you will find one eventually

Unicorn · February 01, 2014, 12:20:33 PM

Nice work Jeff, Goldie & Oz. :wavemulticolor:

Jeff perhaps your rabbit & duck picture told of the outcome.

The picture was rotated and as for rabbit ears you were out for a duck.

keldaw · February 03, 2014, 07:37:54 PM

I found this one on the weekend , what is it ..

,, kel ,,

Coins from Vending · February 03, 2014, 07:56:23 PM

I would hazard a guess and say another coin has dropped onto the coin and left a rim mark on the face of the coin?? I see it lots in coins out of my vending machines

ausjack · February 03, 2014, 09:06:28 PM

Don't know sorry Kel but interested to know if it's a new variety as it looks to have a gap but it might just be the angle of the pic

Unicorn · February 03, 2014, 09:21:42 PM

It's certainly longer than the normal 3 or 4 spot hit marks but I'd say Error Hunter's on the money (must have been hit at a real acute angle). It almost looks like it's grown a new set of 5 claws!

Good eyes for detail AJ, it does look like a gap, but as you say might be just the pic.

Poor little platy has been hit in the head pretty hard.

Fulvio · February 03, 2014, 11:39:49 PM

Quote from: 'Unicorn' pid='40980' dateline='1391424702'it does look like a gap, but as you say might be just the pic.

Can you get some pics from different angles? Be cool if there's another gapped variety here. Sad about the impact damage though.

Nevol · February 04, 2014, 08:53:05 AM

Looks like a gap to me too. Nice find Kel! :yahoo:

The damage from the rim of the other coin sort of makes the platy appear to be surfboarding. JMHO. :winkextra:

keldaw · February 04, 2014, 09:05:43 AM

the best I can get and I find it hard to believe that the dropping of a coin in a vending machine would hit so hard as to make an imprint like that on another coin , it also looks like the extra claws to me also but I cant believe it would only happen to just one coin if it was a genuine error.so I will return it to the pond to do more circulation ..
,, kel ,,

looks like a very small gap there . ,, kel ,,

Nevol · February 04, 2014, 09:11:01 AM

I don't think the damage happened in a vending machine, more likely to have occurred at the RAM as the coins are ejected into the big hoppers.

I see it on quite a few coins, sometimes only a small amount of the milling is visible, sometimes a larger amount, as is the case with your coin.

Don't return it to the pond, it's still a gap and worth hanging onto IMO. :angel:

JeffH · February 04, 2014, 09:56:20 AM

Another one to add to the noodling check list!
Just looked at the 2013 I have but no gaps.

Fulvio · February 04, 2014, 10:14:09 AM

Quote from: 'Nevol' pid='40998' dateline='1391467261'Don't return it to the pond, it's still a gap and worth hanging onto IMO. :angel:

:agreed: definitely worth the 20 cents to hang onto it. But don't bother getting it slabbed though... its not that good. LOL :diablo:

Steveqld · February 05, 2014, 07:45:10 PM

This one has me a bit stumped. Came across it a few weeks ago and immediately thought "PMD" and put it to one side. I got to look at it under the USB microscope tonight and it's got a few characteristics of lamination rather than being gouges.

The obverse:

And close-ups of the three "gouges"

The three characteristics that suggest lamination to me are:
a) The texturing on the bottom of the "gouge" that is inconsistent with gouging or "punching/striking"
b) no clear start for an implement to gouge; and
c) the roughness of the edges.

On the other hand I thought the odds of finding a coin with three distinct and separate areas of lamination was a bit on the high side.

Anyone have a strong opinion one way or the other.

The images were from a macro lense and I've got a couple from the USB scope if you like.

Thanks in Advance.

Steve

Fulvio · February 05, 2014, 07:56:39 PM

Quote from: 'Steveqld' pid='41074' dateline='1391591710'This one has me a bit stumped.

Definitely cold shuts, not PMD. Very unusual to find three on the same coin, and it looks like its not a single fault surfacing in multiple places.

My guess is some metal shavings got rolled into the sheet and subsequently parted company in circulation.

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On closer inspection, there is a fourth one on the rim south of the E in the third pic, and possibly a couple of really tiny ones up around the T.