anyone ever find any significant error coins in circulation

GoldenEyeNumismatics

No, I'm not talking about 5% off center pennies. I'm talking about significant errors.

I found a 10% clipped planchet 1988 dime a few months ago.

Russ

<< <i>I'm talking about significant errors.

I found a 10% clipped planchet 1988 dime a few months ago. >>





Russ, NCNE

lordmarcovan

Significant? No.

But I have found elliptically-clipped Jeffersons a few times. And one with two clips, once.

My wife got three or four blank planchets in a new roll of cents a year or two back.

That's about it, except for laminations and stuff that you'd need a microscope to see.

Michigan

<< <i>Significant? No.

But I have found elliptically-clipped Jeffersons a few times. And one with two clips, once.

My wife got three or four blank planchets in a new roll of cents a year or two back.

That's about it, except for laminations and stuff that you'd need a microscope to see. >>




I once found what I think was a "broadstruck" error. A 1946 Lincoln cent about the size of a nickel with doubling of some of the
wording on it. Not sure how significant it was but I thought it was kind of neat. Someone told me it would be worth around
$25.

Steve27

I found this cud:

Dentuck

In 1989, I found a 90-degree rotated Washington quarter from circulation.

Remember that year? Everyone was getting excited about the supposed "No P" Washington quarter. If I hadn't been eyeballing each quarter I got in change, I wouldn't have noticed the rotation.

Alan Herbert wrote about my find in an issue of Numismatic News. Those were heady days!

koynekwest

A 1980 1-O-V DDO Lincoln. Slabbed out at MS63RB.

cladking

I found a 1968 dime brockage in about 1973 that I sold for $20.

I have a few 1970-D quarters struck on dime stock and would have more had I not spent a couple.

I also have a 1983-P quarter with a major cud on both obverse and reverse.

coinman420

does a 2001-p sacagawea experimental rinse that slabbed at pcgs at ms67 qualify as significant?

gonzer

1969-S double die Lincoln in 1973. Yes, the BIG one. VF to XF, later sold.

ABC123

Gotta say NO !

GoldenEyeNumismatics

I was touring the Denver Mint with the ANA at the end of summer seminar this year. While we were on the minting floor, we stopped at a machine that had just halted minting dimes and they were inspecting the inside. There was a cart next to one of the workers who was inspecting the press. Something on the cart caught my eye, and I went over and picked it up to take a look. It turned out to be a die cap which they had just pried off the reverse die of the press. The entire hopper of dimes at that press was nothing but broackage and struck through capped die pieces. I was drooling! If that bin of error pieces had gotten out, the pieces would have sold for hundreds... thousands of dollars each, and there were thousands of those error dimes in that hopper.

rwyarmch

I recently consigned to TT the 1934 cent my dad pullled from the cash register at our dry cleaners. ANACS deemed it struck on a dime planchet. Brought $875. Got me thinking about having the "funny sounding" 1934 quarter I got from the same drawer authenticated. With my luck it'll be counterfeit!

seanq

I remember seeing the auction for that 1934 cent on the dime planchet, it was a beautiful example.

I've found a few filled dies and minor clips in circulation, nothing earth-shaking. Probably the strangest circulation find was a 98% off-center cent in a bank roll of 1995 cents, there was just enough of a strike that it formed a knife and cut through the side of the wrapper.


Sean Reynolds

numobri

I have found two,State Quarters,with missing clad layer,one is in for grading now.


Brian

19Lyds

The very first Connecticut quarter I received in change had about a 4 or 5% clip.

Cameohunter

In 1973 or 1974 I searched rolls of pennies for a 1972 Doubled Die Obverse. I found one - it slabbed as ANACS MS 62 in 2004. This year it crossed as PCGS MS 61. A friend who saw mine searched his change and found one about a week later.

Mark

carl

I put all my error coins in 2x2's. I have 6 boxes of them and all from change. However, with the exception of a few minor DD's, most are really nothing scarce. Many, many, many Merc Dimes with rotated reverses or as someone pointed out, rotated obverses. Lots and lots of slightly offset cents. Missing letters, dates, numbers. Just nothing sinificant.

Priest

I fpund a 1985 quater dollar with a 180 degree rotation, when properly measured I belive it was 176 or ther about. I found it in or around 1989 I later read an article in C-W to find out that there were very few that were released from the Phila. mint. At that time only 3 or 4 were known to be found. I now have read the number is ten or twelve. It was in C-W in the Collector's Clearinghouse column in 1990.

cladking

<< <i>I fpund a 1985 quater dollar with a 180 degree rotation, when properly measured I belive it was 176 or ther about. I found it in or around 1989 I later read an article in C-W to find out that there were very few that were released from the Phila. mint. At that time only 3 or 4 were known to be found. I now have read the number is ten or twelve. It was in C-W in the Collector's Clearinghouse column in 1990. >>




It never ceases to amaze me how many of the moderns are scarce. Almost all the
varieties have only a few or several known examples but hundreds of thousands
are normally made from a single die. People just aren't looking for these coins so
they wear out in circulation and become lost or destroyed. This may not be as im-
portant yet with something like an '85 quarter since fewer than a third have been
lost so far, but it is critical to something like a 1969 cent that more than 80% are per-
manently gone.

Even if all the coins get checked for numismatically valuable coins before they are with-
drawn from circulation and destroyed. Even if every single desirable and better date
is withheld from the smelter, the bulk of these coins are going to be in pretty poor
shape. In actuality this simply won't happen. When the recalls occur the vast major-
ity of the people will just lug their coins to the bank and they'll be destroyed.

The '85 RR is actualy a scarce coin. I've probably seen at least a couple examples
of every die pair and haven't found a rotated reverse yet. There were a few die pairs
that made a really neat small bust version though and these are fun to look for.

Conder101

<< <i>The entire hopper of dimes at that press was nothing but broackage and struck through capped die pieces. I was drooling! If that bin of error pieces had gotten out, the pieces would have sold for hundreds... thousands of dollars each, and there were thousands of those error dimes in that hopper >>


If the entire hopper had gotten out the price for those type errors would probably be depressed for awhile, unless they were acquired enmass by strong hands that could trickle them out over time keeping the appetites whetted and prices strong.

Thenewguy

A nice unc 1948s lincoln with a nice strike-thru on the reverse. Got it from a minimart about 6 months ago so looks like someone raided dads collection.

zenny

<< <i> The entire hopper of dimes at that press was nothing but broackage and struck through capped die pieces. I was drooling! >>




were you the only one on the tour who was wowed?

sounds verrrrrrry cooooool...........

Leiana

I got an out of collar Kennedy the other day.

-Amanda