Die-struck Fake
Many of the more dangerous modern fakes of ancient coins are die-struck, as this is the only way to create the look and feel of an original die-struck coin, the lack of which is one of the keys to spotting other types of fakes.
Broadstruck Indented
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Double Struck Coin Error
Double Struck 1959 Half Penny
An interesting class of coin error is the double struck coin.
Mis-struck World Coins - A Primer
by Bill Snyder
More and more collectors are now looking for something 'different' to collect. I would like to suggest that one can learn a lot about coins and coinage by looking into Error coins. ...
Drusus AE As, struck under Titus. DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N, bare head left / IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG REST around large SC. Cohen 6.
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Foreign Coins Struck By U.S. Mints
On January 29, 1874, a joint resolution of both houses of Congress gave the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to accept contract work from foreign governments.
1915 Lincoln Cent Struck on 75/25 Cu-Ni Planchet PCGS XF 45 Unique. Provided by U.S. Mint error coin dealer Michael S. Byers of Byers Numismatic Corp ...
In accordance with the money reform of the Livonia Confederation (1422-1426), the coins (schillings, pfennigs, scherfs) were struck by the Archbishopric of Riga, but after Salaspils treatment, also by the Order of Livonia.
List of foreign countries with coinage struck at the Royal Canadian Mint
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Struck Fragments
The blanking press takes the coils of metal strips and punches blanks out of it, ejecting the webbing at the other end. The webbing is cut into small scrap pieces to be melted and recycled.
Struck or Cast ? Coins from Cherson from the 5th century through Constans II (641-668) were struck. Their fabric, if not their designs, resembles normal Byzantine coin fabric.
Struck Imitation Halfpence
Significant quantities of struck counterfeit British and Irish halfpence were imported to America and freely circulated through the country.
struck copy: a counterfeit made using dies in a press.
struck counterfeit: a fake coin that is struck using dies in a press.
successful bidder: the winner in an auction.
Struck thru
An error caused by a foreign object that got between the dies and the planchet when a coin was struck. A common Struck Thru error is a piece of wire that leaves an indentation that is usually mistaken for a scratch.
struck A term used to describe a coin produced from dies and a coining press.
struck copy A replica of a particular coin made from dies not necessarily meant to deceive.
struck counterfeit A fake coin produced from false dies.
struck counterfeit
A fake coin produced from false dies.
struck thru
An error caused by a foreign object that got between the dies and the planchet when a coin was struck.
struck
A term used to describe a coin produced from dies..
struck thru ...
Struck in Aluminum
1348 1879 pattern four dollars. P-1835, J-1637. Rarity-7. Flowing Hair. Proof-67 (PCGS). Aluminum. Reeded edge.
Struck copy
A replica of a particular coin made from dies, possibly but not necessarily meant to deceive.
Struck counterfeit ...
Struck Copies of Early American Coins/Kenney
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mis-struck Term applied to the error coins that have striking irregularities.
ML Short for medium letters.
DIE STRUCK FAKE
A counterfeit coin produced from a fake die. Comparison of a suspect coin with one known to be genuine will often reveal minor difference.
DIE TRIAL, DIE STRIKE ...
Well Struck 1914 Nickel Value
The price of the highest quality, best preserved 1914 buffalo nickels frequently reaches $800 to $1,000 each. Several elements come together to separate these rare nickels from the rest.
Broadstruck Errors
Texas Statehood Quarter Broadstruck - Large & uncentered.
Is the Struck Through Grease Filled Die Error Common? Actually, yes, this kind of thing happens fairly often.
Double Struck 1904 Gold Double Eagle by Heritage
Found Treasures: 1914/3-S Nickel by Stewart Huckaby (Heritage)
1795 $1 Flowing Hair, Two Leaves. Struck over previously struck 1794 silver dollar by Heritage ...
Double struck - A condition that results when a coin is not ejected from a die and is struck a second time.
Double-Struck - Said of any coin which has received two impressions from the working dies in accidentally imperfect alignment.
Struck in Syracuse, Sicily, around 465 B.C. The first decadrachm type ever issued in the Greek coin series, preparing the way for further special issues of decadrachms from Syracuse, Akragas, and Athens.
Struck in very low mintages, United States Mint Proof Sets are highly sought after each year by numismatic collectors. Proof coins are produced with quality in mind as opposed to quantity.
Struck more than 300.000.000 times worldwide.
Key identification characteristics for the 1780 strikes are in particular the form of the brooche in the veil on the obverse (no pearls, except for the later Vienna mint strike), ...
Struck over SB 1836, a follis of Constantine IX. The obverse Christ portrait, and reverse legend and dash Ω dash (all at a 90 degree rotation) can be seen of the overstruck coin.
Type:
Anonymous Christ portrait ...
Struck only as Proofs and available originally only in regular 1999 Proof Sets and/or special 1999 50 State Quarters Proof Sets.
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800,000 ...
Struck in Philadelphia (no mintmark) every year of the series, No Motto eagles were also minted in New Orleans (O) from 1841 through 1860, and in San Francisco (S) from 1854 through 1866. About 5.
STRUCK COIN.
Head of Vulcan (B. M. C., Italy, p. 25).
ARIMN Gaulish warrior armed with oval shield and spear.
Struck at the US Mints in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Denver, the total mintage of the silver Peace Dollar is only a fraction of the better-known silver coins, the Morgan Silver Dollars.
Struck with the portrait of Oliver Cromwell, and thought to be patterns. Those known are considered to be non-contemporary.
Double Crown ...
struck in Cos. The foundation of a new capital at the eastern end of the island (B.C. 366) marks the commencement of silver coinage on the Rhodian standard with corresponding bronze.
Circ. B.C. 366-300. Rhodian standard.
Overstruck on apparently official Autonomous Issue, AE14, c.400-350, Bosporus Kingdom or Pontos-Amisos
(No legend)
Caps of the Dioscuri surmounted by stars
...TI / ...PA / ...OS
Legend in three lines ...
An unstruck planchet.
Branch Mint
Any federal coining facility except the Philadelphia Mint. See mintmark.
Coin struck on such a thin planchet that the image impressed on one side shows through on the other.
Brilliant Uncirculated
coin grade with no signs of wear, it must also have never been circulated (also considered "mint state" or "uncirculated") ...
Coin struck with a die bearing traces of an earlier date. (See separate discussion.)
Date numeral shape and/or position ...
Coins struck early in the reign (almost as a general rule but certainly true for Philip) tend to use longer obverse legends more fully spelling out just exactly who is shown on the coin.
Coins struck without the motto, 'IN GOD WE TRUST.' This motto was mandated by an act of Congress and appeared on nearly every United States coin since the 1860s.
Coins struck from captured Spanish bullion were again issued in 1745 and 1746.
Coins struck for current issue, either for collectors, investors or circulation.
New York close ...
Fully struck - Sharp detail of a coin's design. Many factors combine to produce such coins. (see soft struck below for comparison)
Hub - a mirror image copy of a die in relief which was used to make "carbon copy" dies ...
A die struck more than once by a hub in misaligned positions during the creation of the die, resulting in the doubling of the coin's design elements.
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Description ...
Pieces struck abroad for use in the American colonies include the Rosa Americana issues of 1722-1724, struck by William Wood, acting under a patent from King George I; the 1773 Virginia halfpenny bearing the portrait of George III; ...
Nevada struck it rich Thursday as shiny new quarters began rolling off the production line at the U.S. Mint in Denver.
A coin struck under siege.
Pātina,
Patination
The colour "absorbed" by the coin because of surroundings factors: the ground-type, contact with other metals or with sea-water, minerals, etc.
DOUBLE STRUCK Term referring to any coin which has received two impressions form working dies which were accidentally out of alignment during the coining process.
A coin struck as a test piece for a new design.
Planchet
Disc of metal that a coin is struck on.
A coin struck without a firmly seated collar, resulting in "spreading" outwards, but still showing all design details.
brockage ...
Double Struck - A blurred design on a coin, caused by striking the coin twice.
Electrum - A natural mixture of gold and silver.
Double Struck
A coin which was struck twice by at least one DIE during the striking process.
A coin struck on a planchet composed of a metal on which the coin is not normally struck.
Overdate ...
Usually struck on crude, imperfect planchets, they are rarely found in high grade. The landscape coppers convey a wealth of detail corresponding to the Vermont countryside and politics of the day.
Whether struck in Tyre or farther south, it is clear that the silver coins of ancient Tyre were well known in the ancient world for their weight and quality of silver.
In hand-struck coinages, when dies are simply mated as they come to hand, a fairly random distribution can be expected. Sometimes the shape of the dies themselves leads to a preference for striking at specific die axes (with a square die, e.g.
 See also: Coin, Mint, Revers, Reverse, Silver
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