Anyone collect varieties/errors?

DAM

I purchased a 1909 S MS65RD a few years back. I noticed when I looked closer it was the S/S (S over horizontal S) variety. PCGS has a promotion through the end of this month, for Collectors Club members, to grade, for free, any coin dated 1909. It came back today with the S/S on the holder.

According to the price quides, and what I've seen in the auctions recently, there's a nice premium for that variety.

I've been an avid collector of varieties and errors, in any grade, for years. It adds a twist to the hobby that has kept me busy at shows and looking through dealers' inventories. It also gives you something more to look for in your own collection.

I've found some nice pieces including a 1934 DDO quarter in AU. I paid $5.50 for that one to a dealer who had it on his bid board. There are many others, too many to mention here. None I could retire on, but still fun to hunt.

DIMEMAN

I collect all varieties of Bust, Seated, Barber, Mercury and Roosevelt Dimes. They are neat, but I'm thinking of selling them off to buy other coins such as Walkers and SLQ's. Don't know yet.

Jon

BNE

I do! I also like looking for errors in the sets I collect. They provide an interesting "twist," can be challenging to find, and make for a nice "freak show" of oddities. I first got interested in these while reading some of David Lange's books. For the series' he writes on, he usually has a nice photo gallery of all kinds of weird stuff, which is really cool.

I have a number of proof Jefferson double and triple dies, some "struck-throughs," and the "reverse of '38" and "reverse of '40" varieties. I have been disappointed, though, with PCGS' unwillingness to attribute FS numbers to these, so the errors remain in other services' (NGC and ANACS) holders.

GQ

More idle friday morning thoughts......Yes, I like varieties, they add more challenge and enjoyment to series that you like. I am going over to the ANACS side getting the RPM Jeffersons. All coins are varieties. No two coins can be the same. To collect all the varieties of the 1954 Proof Jefferson would take 233,300 coins!

....There is a great web site that shows ALL of the Jefferson RPM's....if anyone wants I will put it up......

izzy452

I have a 42/1 and a 42/1D merc dime and a mirco s dime and a 38 D/D buffalo nickel. Thats about it for errors and varieties.


Walt

nwcs

I'd like to collect errors, but I don't have the money for it. For the next while, I'm trying to build a Morgans with varieties set. I'm still debating within myself if I want to sell off something for the first time to buy some morgans and stick with them. But I love variety in my collection, too. Even the horrible stuff I got as a kid! :-)

Neil

NIckelCollector

Nickel Triumph:

What is the website address?

Frank

GQ

JEFFERSON NICKEL RPM'S

Hi Frank....check it out. No pictures but quite interesting; I printed it out and it is 38 pages.

GQ

GQ

.......somewhat new to this myself does anyone know what MDS,UVC,EDS,LDS AND DMR stand for????

NIckelCollector

GQ

Early die state, mid die state, late die state, die marriage registry, universal variety code. The first three's meaning are obvious.

DMR - secondary number [assigned] to each variety within a series, UVC - primary sequential number [assigned] to each variety within a series.


I'm assuming your link is from "The Jefferson Nickel RPM BOOK"?

RGL

GQ, purchase Wiles' RPM book and Wexler and Ribar's new Best of the Jefferson Doubled Dies book. They are wonderful references and Wexler/Ribar is particularly helpful in providing other die diagnostics to help you confirm doubled dies, which sometimes can be difficult to attribute on late die stage strikes. Each helped me dig out some nice varieties from my stockpile of both BU and circ Jeffs. Cherrypickers is great, but it does not begin to scratch the surface on Jeff RPMs and DDs. There are a ton of proof doubled dies, which I know to be one of your interests, illustrated in the DD book. You can find both up for auction, at least the last time I looked, on eBay or I know JT Stanton carries them and Wexler sells them off his web site, as well. I traded a few e-mails with JT when I bought the DD book from him and he was going over the page proofs for the Second Volume of Cherrypickers. He hopes it will be out this fall. Aside from being a great numismatist, JT is one fine fellow.

solid

That's one of the things I like about the Jefferson nickel series - it contains all varieties of error coins. The 43/2-P overdate, 49-D/S, 54-S/D, and 55-D/S overmintmarks, 39-P, 43-P and 45-P doubled-dies, among others, and numerous repunched mintmarks, including the 42-D/Horizontal D (which I have yet to obtain!).

These varieties definately add interest to the series for me!

Ken