Thank you. I'm a newbie at this. I'm only on my first month of CRH and collecting. I got hooked after finding this Wounded Eagle in a Vending/Fare Card machine at a DC Metro station on the way to work one day.
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Nice find on the Wounded Eagle as the Die Gouges are somewhat hard for many folks to spot! There seems to be three different Varieties of this Error Coin, some with three Die Gouges, some with only two Die Gouges and one that has Die Gouges higher up on the Eagle and tilted more towards the East Northeast to West Southwest but there may be even more. Most are fairly elusive but the one that is most prominent, sought after, scarce and quite pricey is the Variety you found.
http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/147883 I have found thousands of Error and Variety coins from Doubled Dies, "Poorman" Double Dies, RPMs, OMMs, RPDs, Re-Cut Dates, VAMs, Cuds, Brockages (Partial and Full), significant Die Breaks, Laminations, De-Laminations, Die Clashes, Counter-Die Clashes, Thick (Experimental or Foreign) Planchet, Clipped Planchets, Blank Planchets, Off-Center, Double & Triple Struck, Split Planchets, all sorts of Struck Thru Errors, Snorting or Sneezing Buffalo (Die Gouges), Die Dots, Die Dents, Rusted Die, and so many more but I have never found a 2000-P Sacagawea $1 Coin with the "Wounded Eagle" or with the "Reverse of 1999" (Cheerios Dollars). Sadly, frustration with the hobby and Coin Dealers caused me to sell most of my' collection which consisted of well over 15,000 Error and Variety Coins close to 10 years ago.
Frank
