1968 variety?
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 11:45 am
Hello All!
I was wondering if I could pick everyone's brain about this coin. I will post a better picture when I receive the item - I waited until I had won the listing on ebay and have posted a screen grab from saidting - but the coin in question is front and center. The curiosity is the 8 in the date, most notably the right side. I had seen one of these for sale once before, and the seller had called it a 1968 over a large date 1969 strike, but that seemed just wrong to me since logically speaking a 1969 coin shouldn't have existed prior to the striking of all the 1968 dimes. Given the shape of the 8 though, I can at least understand what they thought. The right side of the 8 is very flat in that it is missing the two rounded shapes that would be the top and bottom of an 8. Basically like a backwards capital B. Has anyone seen one of these before? I did a very quick search on here and found nothing relative. Also couldn't find the old listing I had seen. Is it possible that some/a '69 large date die was converted to a '68 die when the change in date size was decided? And instead of trashing a then obsolete die, converted it mint a few more hundred/thousand coins before the year was out? Open to all thoughts and ideas! And I'll post my own photos once the lot arrives.
Thanks!
Richards
I was wondering if I could pick everyone's brain about this coin. I will post a better picture when I receive the item - I waited until I had won the listing on ebay and have posted a screen grab from saidting - but the coin in question is front and center. The curiosity is the 8 in the date, most notably the right side. I had seen one of these for sale once before, and the seller had called it a 1968 over a large date 1969 strike, but that seemed just wrong to me since logically speaking a 1969 coin shouldn't have existed prior to the striking of all the 1968 dimes. Given the shape of the 8 though, I can at least understand what they thought. The right side of the 8 is very flat in that it is missing the two rounded shapes that would be the top and bottom of an 8. Basically like a backwards capital B. Has anyone seen one of these before? I did a very quick search on here and found nothing relative. Also couldn't find the old listing I had seen. Is it possible that some/a '69 large date die was converted to a '68 die when the change in date size was decided? And instead of trashing a then obsolete die, converted it mint a few more hundred/thousand coins before the year was out? Open to all thoughts and ideas! And I'll post my own photos once the lot arrives.
Thanks!
Richards