This week’s $1,000 of Halves 10-04-12

[hogan646]

There is two boxes a halves waiting for me at home. I will share the results.

 

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[toorude89]

Good luck. I'm stuck in an 8 box skunk streak...

 

[Rushfan]

<---- 9 box... I win...!

 

[hogan646]

I had good luck with this bank so far, 3 out of 6 boxes have had silver. I don't want to jinx myself.

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[alligator69]

20 box skunk spree... I win. Going to get 4 more boxes tommorow.

 

[hogan646]

First piece of bad news, the boxes have the dreaded inspection stamps!

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[hogan646]

First piece of bad news, the boxes have the dreaded inspection stamps!

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As I feared, both boxes were skunks. Did find a very strange half that was missing the date and liberty around the perimeter of the coin. Does anyone know how that may have happened. I have attached a picture

 

[Wilmingtonsilver]

I got a stamped box today that was also a skunk.

 

[usernameerror]

As I feared, both boxes were skunks. Did find a very strange half that was missing the date and liberty around the perimeter of the coin. Does anyone know how that may have happened. I have attached a picture

Struck through grease

 

[Weaselbrott]

Looks like you have yourself an error coin. Can anybody back this up a little more? Perhaps bring that to the LCS to see what they think?

 

[Numismaniac]

Looks like an error called struck through grease. The die was filled with grease do not all the design made it to the coin. I keep them if they are dramatic. Yours looks pretty good.

 

[vetarun]

I had one of those and i thought the same thing about the grease. If you loo
k at that area closely with a magnifying glass you will see thousands of taps and gouges. Like it was stuck under the wheel of a coin cointer. If you are in the southeast it could be the same one i threw back.

 

[hogan646]

I searched for other examples of "struck through grease" coins on the web and this seems to the cause of the error. I will have to bring to a coin shop and have it checked out.