Sullivan Numismatics FUN Show Report
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Here's our FUN show report. Spoiler, it was a great show! https://sullivannumismatics.com/blog/fun-coin-show-report-january-2026/
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It was a great show. Thanks for the Kennedy & Washington off metals I bought from you. Your Gold
planchet is still talking to me.
Nick
Nice to see you there!
Thanks for checking in with the error market info. Always like to hear how that side of the hobby is doing. Glad things went well for you.
Nice. I'm sure I must have passed by your table. But the show was such sensory overload for me. You know how that is.
I only do one show a year, typically (the Winter FUN). But that's about all my mind and wallet could handle.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
I have always been impressed with the quality of service provided by Sullivan Numismatics, outstanding high quality customer treatment. Highly recommended!
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Thanks for your report!
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Good seeing you at the show! Glad to have bought that partial collar trade dollar from you.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Major mint errors are bringing very strong prices and 2026 is off to a strong start!
Just sold today in Heritage:
Strong prices in Heritage:
That is one of the few major striking errors I've seen on a Trade dollar--those are just scarce as hens teeth.
@keoj will you post your broadstruck T$ for everyone's viewing pleasure?
chopmarkedtradedollars.com
Lermish,
Sure! This a 78-S broadstruck 5% offset Trade Dollar in PCGS MS-63. I now have about 5 Trade Dollar errors. As Jon noted, they are incredibly rare as I think that the minting quality was quite high for Trades.
I love this coin. Enjoy! Keoj!
Great coin! @keoj . A handful of partial collar strikes, and a few unique or nearly unique major trade dollar errors are all there are (other than occasional minor strike thrus, laminations, etc.)
Some of my favorite errors were sourced from Jon Sullivan.
My little picture icon at this fun site is also from Jon:
2007D 1c dies struck on severed feeder finger tip
Happy Shopping !
Lindy
That aluminum FF 2007 is one of my all time favorite FF coins! So tough on cents (vast majority are 25c state quarters.)
Jon is correct. Most are State Quarters.
Here is part of the original group that I discovered in 1999 that was featured in CoinWorld.
The SBA on the feeder finger tip is the rarest.
Keoj - love that trade dollar. What a strike. Here’s mine:
Very nice! This is a really nice uncentered broadstrike or off-center-nice eye-appeal. 1878-S seems to have been the year for this error type on Trade dollars.
I am aware of exactly one rim clip, a good friend owned it and sold it over a decade ago, I could not tell you where it is today.
Sean Reynolds
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I have one of those in an anacs holder
Tradedollarnut,
Just an awesome coin. The off center is terrific. Trade dollar errors are just rare...full stop.
This is another one that I've seen....
https://coins.ha.com/itm/errors/1877-s-t-1-trade-dollar-broadstruck-au58-ngc/a/1281-4343.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515
In all these broadstruck coins, check out the cool distortion in the peripheral lettering of the reverse. Attached link for the 77-S shows this very well in "DOLLAR".
Keoj
I may as well add my partial collar to the party here. Not quite as exciting as the broadstrikes, but I still like it.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
How can you tell 63 from 65 on this let alone 64 from 64+?
@MarkInDavis Grading mint errors is more of a generalization, but at the end of the day, a grader will still put the coin at where they think it falls on the "1-70" spectrum of numeric grades.
In a lot of ways, mint error coins are graded for their appearance rather than with the same precise technicalities of "regular" coin grading. and I think in some ways, it makes it a more accurate assessment of the coin.
The Lincoln Cent bonded with the screw that I sold to a customer for 25k, was graded MS 64 as well. Having the design on the full size planchet makes it easier to determine a grade. I have no idea regarding the grade on the struck screw.
Cheeky trolling by the grading room.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Very cool item, but at the same time it seems pointless to me to try and apply a traditional Sheldon scale grade to it, let alone a + grade…. “It’s a 64+ with full threads!”
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Chris
I should have said I think it was clearly a 65 and whoever submitted it for grading got screwed.