The following rarities sold featured in the October 2025 GACC US Coins Signature® Auction #1386.
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1980-D Lincoln Cent, MS64
Struck on a 90% Silver Dime Planchet
Unusual Obsolete Planchet Mint Error
Sold For: $20,400.00
1980-D Lincoln Memorial Cent -- Struck on a 90% Silver Dime Blank -- MS64 NGC. 2.5 grams. Satiny luster enjoys slight russet overtoning, with boldly struck design elements and few marks. The smaller dime planchet is aligned with the left edge of the collar, providing a full rim on that border while the right-hand border lacks a rim entirely. Some distortion of the border legends is caused as a result. The curious nature of this piece transcends a typical wrong planchet error, since the silver dime planchet on which the coin was struck should not have existed at the Denver Mint after about 1965. Still, at least three 1980-D cents struck on 2.5-gram coin-silver planchets (consistent with a dime) exist. Perhaps a mint employee slipped the planchets into the hopper -- or between the dies -- to stir up a numismatic discovery for eagle-eyed collectors. We sold one of the other pieces in our recent 2025 ANA Signature, graded MS64 NGC, which realized $18,000.
1800 Silver Dollar, XF45
Double Struck, 2nd Strike 15% Off Center
Scarce 10 Arrows, B-15, BB-195
Sold For: $26,400.00
1800 $1 10 Arrows, B-15, BB-195, R.4 -- Double Struck, Second Strike 15% Off Center -- XF45 PCGS. Ex: The Peh Family Collection. A spectacular mint error on a Draped Bust dollar. We know of only one similar example within the series, a double-struck NGC AU53 BB-196 dollar with the second strike 10% off center. On the present coin, the first strike was apparently normal, but the piece was struck a second time, 15% off center toward 10 o'clock, at 10 o'clock relative to the first strike. Much design detail from the first strike remains, including the date. The pearl-gray surfaces are minimally marked save for moderate contact on the reverse field near the right scroll end. "Bowers Die State II" with clash marks from the bust tip near OF. BB-195 is the sole die marriage of the Guide Book 1800 10 Arrows variety, and it is scarce. Bowers (1993) estimates two to four Mint State examples and only five to ten AU survivors. Herrman (Winter 2024) records only the Amon G. Carter, Jr. coin in Mint State, along with eight coins in AU and another two as XF45.
Ex: FUN Signature (Heritage, 1/2006), lot 3230.
