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    1994 cent Amoeba on steps?

    Has anyone seen this before? I dont think its post mint damage because I found two of them about a year apart.

    Is there a gallery of photos of known errors and varieties similar to CopperCoins?

    DWK
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    It is a die break in the stairs. I have seen this occur more than once in 1994 Lincoln cents.

    BJ Neff
    Member of: ANA, CCC, CONECA, Fly-in-club, FUN, NLG & T.E.V.E.C.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by wavysteps View Post
      It is a die break in the stairs. I have seen this occur more than once in 1994 Lincoln cents.

      BJ Neff
      Thanks BJ. How does a die break like that? It looks like something flowed onto the steps, or like a necklace was laid on the steps.

      If several thousand identical coins were minted, does it qualify as a variety.

      If it was a Morgan Dollar I'll bet it would have a VAM #.

      DWK

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      • #4
        It appears to be a retained interior die break. An island of metal in the die face separates from and sinks into the surrounding metal, leaving the design on a low plateau in any coin that is struck.

        There is no consensus on what constitutes a variety. Ken Potter would call it a variety while James Wiles and I would not. It really doesn't matter. It is what it is.

        As far as VAM's go, I never understood why anyone would bother to assign a number to every major and minor die flaw found in Morgan dollars. The same obsessive approach could be applied to any series and produce an equally interminable list. However, to each his own.
        Mike Diamond. Error coin writer and researcher.

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        • #5
          Just to add to what Mike has said, there is a 1994 wavy step die that has a retained die break similar to this one. It may have been a case where this years dies had a weak point.

          As to the VAM possibility, I am not a collector of Morgan and Peace dollars, so I can not speculate if it would or wouldn't be.

          Whether to call it an error or variety, I choose the easy way out and call it a die anomaly, which in this case I feel is collectible (as are all retained die breaks).

          As to how it was formed; it is just a spot on the die that is just a bit to brittle for the design component. As the die ages, the die becomes more brittle and devolopes fractures(die cracks) along these areas.

          BJ Neff
          Last edited by wavysteps; 04-13-2008, 07:07 PM.
          Member of: ANA, CCC, CONECA, Fly-in-club, FUN, NLG & T.E.V.E.C.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by diamond View Post
            It appears to be a retained interior die break. An island of metal in the die face separates from and sinks into the surrounding metal, leaving the design on a low plateau in any coin that is struck.

            There is no consensus on what constitutes a variety. Ken Potter would call it a variety while James Wiles and I would not. It really doesn't matter. It is what it is.

            As far as VAM's go, I never understood why anyone would bother to assign a number to every major and minor die flaw found in Morgan dollars. The same obsessive approach could be applied to any series and produce an equally interminable list. However, to each his own.
            Thanks kindly Mike:

            Maybe I'll stick one of them out on E-Bay and see what happens.

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            • #7
              Thanks again BJ.

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              • #8
                It kinda looks like glue...
                But I'm sure it's not. Very nice cent!

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