Category Archives: Struck Through

The Coin Analyst: Reflections of a Libertad Specialist

By Louis Golino, special to CoinWeek …..   Harry “Hernando” Bodine of Florida inherited from his late father both his coin collection and his love of numismatics, which began when Harry was a teenager. His father instilled in him the importance of completing a coin series and exposed him early on to what would become […]

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The Two Types of Struck-Through Error Coins

By Jon Sullivan for PCGS …… When a coin is struck, it should be produced from dies that are clean and free of any residues, debris, or other random objects so that when the dies come together to strike the planchet, a perfect strike is the result. If, however, there is something between the dies […]

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