LostDutchman Posted March 8, 2007 Report Share Posted March 8, 2007 surfing today I found this... seeing these coins with the "upside down edge lettering" on e bay makes me chuckle now... http://coins.about.com/od/errorcoinsdievar...e_lettering.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyd Posted March 8, 2007 Report Share Posted March 8, 2007 I want one of the so-called "Godless ones" -- (plain edge)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josie Posted March 8, 2007 Report Share Posted March 8, 2007 Thanks dutch for the info. Lots of stuff quite a brain storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbycoin Posted March 9, 2007 Report Share Posted March 9, 2007 Great info, thanks LD -Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostDutchman Posted March 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2007 it seems that the quality control at the mint is not quite as great as it should have been... This new edge lettering seems to be giving the mint some trouble. From what I have gathered the edge lettering is not on the collar... it is added in a different process... my guess is that the coins are laid flat and run through a pair of rollers similar to a pitching machine used in batting cages one of these rollers gives the coin the edge lettering... but that is just my guess it could be a completely different process... here is an short description I found of the process but I would like to know more "The edge lettering is being applied randomly with regard to whether it faces up or down on the business strike coins, after the coins are struck. The business strike coins are fed through a vaccuum-like device that sucks them up into the edge lettering prep machine, which lines them up in whichever way the coins happen to enter the process (heads up or down.) Then the coins roll through a device that inscribes the edge lettering. It is expected that in the end, heads-up edge lettering should be about equal in number to coins which receive "tails-up" edge lettering." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted March 9, 2007 Report Share Posted March 9, 2007 The device used to strike the edge lettering probably is a pitching machine. That might account for some of the knife wounds on Washington and pieces of metal missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlueke Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 I want one of the so-called "Godless ones" -- (plain edge)... I'll take one if I find one, but $200 is a bit steep for something you can hardly see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Geez, is the US mint like 200 years behind the rest of the world's mints? I do have coins dating 200 years ago that still have excellent edges, and they are EXTRUSIVE text, not instrusive text. That coin is minted back in 1724 - more like 280 years old! This gives the slabbing companies a good reason why they should make coin edges viewable It's long overdue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDJMSP Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 The device used to strike the edge lettering probably is a pitching machine. That might account for some of the knife wounds on Washington and pieces of metal missing. There is an actual picture of the edge die in the Feb. 26 issue of Coin World. And if you consider that the mint is running the coins thru this thing at the rate of 1000 coins per minute, it's quite easy to understand the errors. Frankly, I am amazed there are not more of them and I further suspect that when this all shakes out that it will be the coins without errors that are harder to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlueke Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Geez, is the US mint like 200 years behind the rest of the world's mints? I do have coins dating 200 years ago that still have excellent edges, and they are EXTRUSIVE text, not instrusive text. That coin is minted back in 1724 - more like 280 years old! This gives the slabbing companies a good reason why they should make coin edges viewable It's long overdue. Or we could just live without the slabs and touch the coins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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