The March 2014 Baltimore Auction Session 7
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The March 2014 Baltimore Auction Session 7 Friday, March 28, 2014 Start time: 6:00 PM ET Lots 6001-6411 Stack’s Bowers Galleries e March 2014 Baltimore Auction B 6001 1995-W Silver Eagle. Proof-69 Ultra Cameo (NGC). is 6004 MMIX (2009) Ultra High Relief $20 Gold Coin. MS-70 is a beautiful, as-truck specimen with virtually awless (PCGS). is is a beautiful, reective, as struck specimen. A surfaces. Struck in West Point, New York, the present glorious Gem from the pinnacle of the grading scale. beauty nears the pinnacle of perfection both physically and PCGS# 407404. aesthetically. PCGS# 9887. 6002 1999-W Tenth-Ounce Gold Eagle—Struck from Unnished Proof Dies—MS-69 (PCGS). is lovely piece exhibits light orange color and surfaces that combined elements of both satin and semi-reective nishes. Just a solitary grading point from numismatic perfection. PCGS# E99942. 6005 MMIX (2009) Ultra High Relief $20 Gold Coin. MS-70 (PCGS). is gorgeous example is aglow with reective yellow gold surfaces. Numismatic perfection attained! PCGS# 407404. 6003 MMIX (2009) Ultra High Relief $20 Gold Coin. MS-70 (PCGS). With solid technical quality and eye appeal to spare, this delightful piece is sure to please even the most discerning collector. Search as you will, you won’t nd a ner specimen of the date and issue. PCGS# 407404. Page 380 Stack’s Bowers Galleries Session Seven Starts 6:00 PM ET - Friday, March 28, 2014 M E 6006 1943-S Lincoln Cent—Struck on a Silver Dime Planchet— 6007 1953-S Lincoln Cent—Struck on a Silver Dime Planchet— AU-58 (PCGS). Both sides are generally well centered in MS-63 (PCGS). is is a nicely centered piece with all strike, although the size dierential between the cent dies major design elements discernible, if not boldly dened. and dime planchet have resulted in isolated soness of detail Fully lustrous with an outwardly smooth, satiny texture, this around the peripheries, to include a faint digit 3 in the date, charming piece also exhibits delicate toning in iridescent but certainly clear enough to discern. Satiny and otherwise sandy gold. is type of error was likely caused by the tote brilliant, wisps of pale golden iridescence further enhance bins used at the various mints to move raw planchets to the already pleasing surfaces. e date 1943 brings to mind coining presses. Over time these large customized metal the famous bronze alloy planchets that were mixed into a bins tend to exhibit signs of wear and tear, in this case the handful of the proscribed steel planchets early in the year welds holding the pieces of metal together can crack over and these are far and away one of the most sought aer mint time leaving a small gap which can cause a few planchets to errors of all time. Directly related to these famous copper become lodged in the crack and thus they remain in the tote 1943 cents is this 1943-S cent struck on a dime planchet that bin once it is emptied. Later, when a new denomination is was created in exactly the same manner.During the minting to be coined and those planchets are dumped into the tote process, the blank planchets are loaded into a tote bin, which bins, the previously lodged planchets can become dislodged is a customized large metal tub which has sloping bottoms and are thus poured into the feeding mechanism at the mint that direct the planchets to a trap door. When the trap door for the next batch of coins being struck. is is the primary is opened the planchets slide out into the feeding hopper cause for the wrong planchet errors seen. In the case of this which is part of the press planchet feed system. Later, aer 1953-S Lincoln cent struck on a dime planchet, only a small the coins are struck, these same tote bins are used to take the number are known from this date and mint, and this coin is struck coins to the bagging or counting room where they likely one of the nest, if indeed not the best known today. are processed. What eventually leads to this type of wrong PCGS# E2810. planchet error is that as these tote bins are used their heavy loads wear down the welded seams which can crack or split open a small amount. Blank planchets can be trapped or caught in these broken seams, and perhaps in the hinge on the trap door at the bottom of the tote bin. Once emptied and more planchets dumped into the tote bin, these stuck planchets may become dislodged and are struck through the normal process. is would explain the number of wrong planchet type errors seen, not only for the 1943 planchet errors, but all types of various denomination blunders as well as a number of foreign coin planchets that are found on United States coins, as our mints prepare coins not only for 6008 1956-D Lincoln Cent—Struck on a Silver Dime Planchet— this country but for some others.is same tote bin would AU-58 (PCGS). is is a delightful piece with virtually have been used to strike dimes, then a few planchets may full, satiny luster to lightly toned, golden-gray surfaces. have been stuck in a cracked or split open seam, and later Portions of the letters in the motto IN GOD WE TRUST when more blank planchets were added, in this case of are slightly o the planchet on the obverse, but otherwise the 1943 steel cents, the dime planchet was simply mixed we note outline to bold denition to all design elements. into that group and was then struck normally. Most of e diameter of the dime planchet is 17.9 millimeters while the 1943 cents known on dime planchets exhibit similar that of the intended Lincoln Cent is 19 millimeters. us the soness in the strike as the dime planchets are thinner and small diameter of the silver planchet always leaves a portion of slightly smaller diameter, and thus don’t ll the entire of the edge devices missing or poorly struck on this wrong space between the dies which are set up to strike thicker planchet error. Not many are known of this combination and wider planchets, in this case for the Lincoln cents.Not from the Denver Mint in 1956, and this piece is certainly many of these are known, historical searches turn up a few one of the ner examples to exist today. A dramatic and high 1943-S cents struck on dime planchets, and of those seen grade example for the mint error specialist. most entered circulation at least for a time before being PCGS# E2837. discovered like this prized example. PCGS# E2717. Bid online at www.stacksbowers.com Page 381 Stack’s Bowers Galleries e March 2014 Baltimore Auction 6009 1960 Lincoln Cent. Large Date—Struck on a Dime 6011 1963 Lincoln Cent—Struck on a Silver Dime Planchet— Planchet—MS-63 (ANACS). OH. Vibrant and lustrous AU-55 (PCGS). is is a mostly silver gray example with surfaces are originally toned in mottled steel gray patina. considerable luster remaining to well centered features. e denition is uncommonly full for a Mint error of this Wear is expectably minimal at the Choice AU grade level, type, and we even note complete denition to the devices and only in isolated peripheral areas on the obverse has that are closest to the rims. is fact is somewhat unusual the error resulted in appreciable lack of detail. e 1963 and most welcome, as the smaller diameter of the dime Philadelphia cents were not struck in quite as great of planchet usually allows for localized soness in the strike numbers as seen in the Denver Mint during the early 1960s. when these incorrect planchets nd their way into the erefore, mint errors are a bit scarcer as well, as there were hopper with other cent planchets being fed into the coining simply fewer opportunities given the lower production press. All 1960 cent coinage is popular, with the various numbers. is wrong planchet error oers the collector date punches used that year along with a host of unusual both high grade and solid visual appeal, with the obvious repunching errors of both the date and mintmarks, when silver dime planchet being both too narrow and too thin to applicable. is handsome Philadelphia Mint cent oers not oer the cent dies their full striking ability. A classic example only Choice quality but the sharper overall strike, features of this popular and highly collectible planchet blunder. that should please and error specialist. PCGS# E2882. PCGS# E2858. 6012 1963-D Lincoln Cent—Struck on a Silver Dime 6010 1962-D Lincoln Cent—Struck on a Silver Dime Planchet—MS-62 (PCGS). Lustrous satin silver surfaces are Planchet—AU-58 (PCGS). Satiny silver gray surfaces are well centered on the dime planchet with even the peripheral boldly dened save for where the error resulted in minor devices bold and fully discernible. is fact is important as lack of detail along the upper obverse border and in the the size of the silver dime planchet is considerably thinner centers on both sides. is type of wrong planchet error was and narrower than the intended cent planchet, and this probably caused by a few leover dime planchets stuck in planchet error is seldom found this sharp. Collectors who the cracks or trap door of the tote bins used by the mints to desire sharp strikes are seldom satised when the host move blank planchets to the feeding hoppers.