Post your wins from the huge Heritage error coin auction
seanq
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Last evening (or early this morning, depending on your time zone), Heritage auctioned off a giant collection of nearly 1400 certified error coins, everything from simple clips to transitional off metals. Here is a link to the auction page if you missed it:
The online-only auction started at 8:00pm EST, and was only 2/3 complete when I finally gave up and went to bed just after 1:00am. The only coin I won was with a proxy bid and probably hammered close to sunrise, this 1967 clipped SMS half dollar:
I was outbid badly on several other nice coins in the auction, and I gave up a little to easily on one other coin that in retrospect sold pretty reasonably, a 1970-S clipped proof Jefferson Nickel.
Post any coins that you won in this auction below, and let us know if you managed to stay awake for the entire sale and what you are doing to stay awake and alert today. 
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
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I hope that those who participated in this auction had some success.
I personally only deal with die varieties and not planchet issues.
Give me a double die any day but you can keep the clips and struck on the wrong metals.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
I watched all 8 hours and 45 minutes of the auction. Every coin. I had over 300 coins on my watchlist.
I had to make some serious choices like do I want this 1 super cool error for $4000 or 14 other error coins for $4000.
There were 6 coins that I planned on going hard on and won 5 of them, the one I lost was the 4K coin.
Way crazy prices on most of the auctions. I found some cool stuff under the radar.
In the end, I won 27 coins, well 28 really because one lot was a 2 piece bonded coin.
That was a pretty crazy auction, I was watching it out of pure curiosity. Hope the consignor(s) did well!
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
I know one of the consigners, and he did exceptional well on the bigger coins and and fairly bad on his lower end stuff.
It's Heritage, doing not so hot on the lower end stuff sounds par for the course given their rake. Good for him to do well on the nicer material though, and congrats on your purchases.
"It's like God, Family, Country, except Sticker, Plastic, Coin."
Here is the one that I really wanted but did not win ....
I am surprised the auction went that long. I had a number of quarter errors on my watchlist, so I stayed till around midnight Pacific Time. Luckily, I had already picked up my dream Sacagawea error coin in an another auction, so I don't have to stay till 1 or 2 am this time.
I agree that this auction brings strong prices. However, with so many coins, I do noticed a few "cool stuff under the radar" as EOC mentioned. So bad those are not under my collecting themes. In the end, I picked up 5 coins, and got outbid on one. One of my pickups is a Septuple Struck (struck 7 times) Connecticut state quarter. Similar to my avatar coin, but the extra strikes can be easily seen close to one another. I like the coin. I think more strikes means more rare, so I see it as an upgrade to the one in my collection.
Curious if anyone here won this coin, it was graded MS66 but the error description says "Proof 38% clip". I ended up the underbidder, but in hindsight I could have chased this further because with a reholder / PF designation, it's probably worth three times what it sold for:
Undated Roosevelt dime proof clipped planchet
Some of the very common date clips went for little to no money, most of them were worth less than the minimum $19 Heritage buyers' fee. The duplication of lots had to also hurt sales, I have never seen so many silver dime blanks and clipped 1964 halves offered in one place before.
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
Near the very end of the auction, when the SBA error coin lots came up, the bidding got very, very strange.
I can not see someone fulling their bids as the prices went off the charts, IMO. Something weird happened, I think.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/-2-1979-p-sba-1-susan-b-anthony-dollar-partial-collar-counting-wheel-damage-anacs-unc-details-net-ms60-from/a/60210-92359.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515
https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/1979-p-sba-1-susan-b-anthony-partial-collar-ms61-anacs-this-lot-will-also-include-1979-s-sba-1-susan-b-anthony-pa/a/60210-92360.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115
Almost looks like someone forgot the decimal point in their bids.
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
no, as I watched live someone hitting the bid all the way up consciously on many SBA auctions.
Look at the price realized on all the SBA auctions around the two links. Something is not right, or someone is not in their right mind.
I'm not an error guy, but I had my eye on a Doubled Denomination 1988-D Lincoln cent struck on a Roosie. It was just a very cool looking error, but got way too rich for my blood.
https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/1998-d-1c-lincoln-cent-doubled-denomination-on-struck-10c-ms65-pcgsfrom-the-errorpalooza-collection-part-two/a/60210-91339.s?type=bidnotice-tracked-endofauction
I watched all of those as I specialize in them. The prices on my website are lower than the Heritage prices realized on eleven cent pieces, maybe I should give Heritage a call
Didn't win this - but I was watching lot 91285, sort of a "poor man's aluminum" 1974-S cent
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
Question for the error guys. I have one that a buddy is pressing me for and it means more to him then it does to me but I have no clue to a fair value. Any thoughts are appreciated. Original patina and arguably UNC but a semi Key which sometimes suppress value for errors. Deep (to scale) partial collar with rail road rim around 2/3rd of coin.
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
There were some incredible mint errors in the Heritage sale last night that realized very strong prices with multiple bidders...
One of my pickups is a Septuple Struck (struck 7 times) Connecticut state quarter. Similar to my avatar coin, but the extra strikes can be easily seen close to one another. I like the coin. I think more strikes means more rare, so I see it as an upgrade to the one in my collection.
happy, an extremely nice coin that was on my watchlist.
Be thankful that I had over 300 coins on my watchlist and it was a very hectic evening. Had I had the time to reopen the lot and view the oversized images, I would bid very, very strong on your unique coin.
Either I would have won that coin, or you would have paid a lot more
Congratulations!
Is it for sale?
Thanks for the PMs
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
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Thanks, EOC.
I guess I am lucky and able to pick up the coin at a good price. I saw a Quadruple Struck (struck 4 times) Georgia state quarter in the same auction hammered at just $60 less than what I paid for my coin. I think people got tired so late at night. I was.