error collectors

mbbiker

I'm just wondering how many people pay more for varieties found in THE CHERRYPICKERS GUIDE? I look on e-bay and most don't sell, i can't get rid of mine. Just wanted to know if anyone buys them or if everyone thats interested in them cherrypick their own.

lordmarcovan

I personally have little interest in that sort of stuff, but I would imagine most of it would do moderately well if, say, ANACS certified with the variety number, for instance. Just a theory, which I have not tested yet. I have a few such items to sell and am kicking around the idea of submitting them. In 1992 I was lucky enough to cherrypick an entire BU roll of 1972 Die #3 DDO cents, for practically nothing. I was giving them away for the longest time, assuming them to be worth very little. (We called 'em "Poor Man's Doubled Dies" in the '70's, and sold 'em for two or three bucks each at the time.)

Later I put them on eBay and got $10-15 apiece, raw. One guy I sold some to later told me he'd submitted them to ANACS and had gotten $75 each. They were red BU, but not especially gem examples. MS63 RD, give or take. A lot of that also depends on how you present it on eBay. There is a lot of garbage out there masquerading as "errors". One guy was booed off the eBay chat board for shamelessly selling "clipped planchets" he'd done with a pair of shears. He later took 'em to Yahoo, which is a haven for such material. His atrocious, semi-literate spelling and punctuation alone would have scared me off from any of his auctions, even if I hadn't seen his "errors" for what they really were.

I personally would trust any supposed "errors", or much else, for that matter, from anyone who cannot write beyond sixth-grade level or find the "shift" key on a keyboard...

tsacch

i like some of the errors, but most are just HO HUM

presleyh

see when people say buy the coin not the plastic they wouldnt get 75.00 for those coins. case closed

MartyF

I thought I'd add this to the topic of error coins. A 1956-P "Cracked skull" Lincoln. I would think these coins would bring some kind of premium. It looks like Mr. Lincoln is real mad and the veins in his head are bulging. I think it's kind of cool:
Cracked Skull

MastaHanky

Whoa, cool! Where'd you find that? That isn't listed in any of the Lincoln books, is it? Wouldn't mind owning one of those!

MartyF

MastaHanky:
I actually posted it on eBay this afternoon....

eBay Link to 1956 Cracked Skull Lincoln