What a Collar Clash really looks like

[messydesk]

Someone posted this bad boy on the PCGS forum earlier tonight.

[evensocome]

Wow. That is awesome. Thank you for posting this!

[vampicker]

Beautiful. that makes what we see on the coins make far more sense

[messydesk]

It was received in one of the mint's "Coin 'n' Die" sets they sold for the State Quarters. A most pleasant surprise, considering most of them were just vanilla hunks of die steel with ground off faces.

[RogerB]

Very nice. Is it time to change some of the VAM descriptions?

[CascadeChris]

Is seeing a die like this something new (going off of JB posting it + JR'S response.) I would have thought seeing this wouldn't be as special as this thread is making it seem. Thats almost as neat as seeing one myself for the first time ☺

[shortnock]

Wow! Now this image makes it more understandable.

[crabscrape]

Think listing for collar clashes began around 2009 are so? Still a great showing of the die John.

[vampicker]

It's a lot like what I pictured in my head, but I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've actually seem this on a die. It's more pronounced than I had envisioned

[messydesk]

It's a lot like what I pictured in my head, but I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've actually seem this on a die. It's more pronounced than I had envisioned

Agree. And don't forget that some of it was ground off when the die was defaced.

[CascadeChris]

Simply amazing. If I had to bet a grand before this thread that for upper echelon Numismatists seeing a die with a collar clash was almost commonplace I would've taken that bet in a heartbeat. US Mint, Foreign, Dan Carr, Sunshine and other private mint dies etc etc.. I'm somewhat in disbelief. This is kind of awesome. An assumption steamroll. Dig it

[vamsterdam]

that's an awesome find for whoever bought it. i've been trying o buy damaged dies for educational purposes. i have an obverse lincoln, a dime collar, and a reverse lincoln, plus some token dies. one has what we would consider a retained cud, another has repunched letters. i discovered an unknown doubled die on one of ken potter's silver round/medal dies(he included me 'cherrpicking" it in one of his articles).still want a cud die, a doubled die, clashed die, and now a collar clashed die.

[indian4]

Stole your picture Messydesk. I'll put it to good use

[vampicker]

bumping this for a current thread on same subject

[jared123]

thanx - I probably will never see another of those...

[iwillbenice]

Nice.