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has anybody gotten noticeable error coins in circulation? a coin when you got it you go how did this get/stay in circulation.

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  • goodmoney4badmoneygoodmoney4badmoney Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As an error collector I pay pretty close attention to my change. Once I got a small broadstruck 1996-D Washington quarter that was extremely scratched up and literally looked like it had been laying in the street getting run over by cars for a while. That's the only coin I have ever found "in the wild".
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,393 ✭✭✭✭✭
    there have been roll searchers who have found planchets in rolls.

    the best I've found errorwise have been partial edge lettered dollars and a slightly misaligned obverse die half dollar.

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  • Tdec1000Tdec1000 Posts: 3,852 ✭✭✭
    I have found quite a few off centered Lincoln's going through bu memorial bags.

    Tom
    Awarded the coveted "You Suck" Award on 22 Oct 2010 for finding a 1942/1 D Dime in silver, and on 7 Feb 2011 Cherrypicking a 1914 MPL Cent on Ebay!

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  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never found anything in circulation but that doesn't stop me from always looking at my change.
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  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    found a die chip dime in my change in time, and you never know what your change will yield

    **taking a break :| **

  • ModCrewmanModCrewman Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I found this clipped half dollar while roll searching.

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  • TheRegulatorTheRegulator Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭
    I do a fair amount of roll searching and my only error finds have come from cent rolls. All of them minor. A couple blank planchets, a couple clips including a double-clip, and one slightly off-center.

    Here is one pic I have uploaded.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i found a few clips and plancets. one time i got a north carolina off center from my sister when she got that in change and a coupla die cracks. all good stuff image
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    I got this one out of the Cafeteria Cash Drawer as change:

    image

    I also got a 1970-D Washington with a minor clip out of a roll I purchased off of eBay. Does that count?
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • JcarneyJcarney Posts: 3,154
    Not really errors but I've found a few 1998 and 2000 wide AM Lincolns in change.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,097 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I got this one out of the Cafeteria Cash Drawer as change:

    image

    I also got a 1970-D Washington with a minor clip out of a roll I purchased off of eBay. Does that count? >>

    nice find and a great grade as well image
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I got this one out of the Cafeteria Cash Drawer as change:

    image

    I also got a 1970-D Washington with a minor clip out of a roll I purchased off of eBay. Does that count? >>

    nice find and a great grade as well image >>

    Thanks!

    I remember the excitement revolving around the release of the State Quarters and even purchased the $25.00 bags.

    When the Connecticut coin was released, I asked the cashier to let me look in her drawer. (I was always looking in that cash drawer much to the shock of all the subsequent cashiers that worked there!)

    At any rate, she pulled this one out which happened to be the 1st Connecticut Quarter I'd ever encountered in the "wild"!

    I also got this one out of the same drawer:

    image
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
  • CoinCrazyPACoinCrazyPA Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭✭
    I have only found minor varieties in all the years I've looked. I do not even pick up roll anymore. Anyone else give up?
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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As a CRH I find them on a regular basis, mostly clips - usually minor. I have also found cuds, planchets etc, even some Canadians. Most recent find is a 1966 nickel with a minor clip from a roll search and then the other thread where I found the dime planchet at a Subway restaurant.
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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,727 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Back when I used to search rolls religiously, I found a couple of minor clips and unstruck planchets, but nothing really exciting. My best find was a cent struck about 98% off center, the struck part of the coin had sliced through the paper roll like a tiny knife.


    Sean Reynolds
    Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.

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  • CoinCrazyPACoinCrazyPA Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>As a CRH I find them on a regular basis, mostly clips - usually minor. I have also found cuds, planchets etc, even some Canadians. Most recent find is a 1966 nickel with a minor clip from a roll search and then the other thread where I found the dime planchet at a Subway restaurant. >>



    What is a CRH? Thanks
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  • << <i>

    << <i>As a CRH I find them on a regular basis, mostly clips - usually minor. I have also found cuds, planchets etc, even some Canadians. Most recent find is a 1966 nickel with a minor clip from a roll search and then the other thread where I found the dime planchet at a Subway restaurant. >>



    What is a CRH? Thanks >>



    CRH=coin roll hunting
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,919 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was at LAX for one of my trips to
    Switzerland, in 1978 or so, and I
    got a 1974-D Dime in change at
    the coffee shop there. It was a
    clipped planchet.

    I put it in a labeled 2x2 holder, and
    still have it somewhere with my
    'fun' coins......

    Think that's about it for finds, other
    than die cracks, etc. when I was
    a kid searching thru circ and BU rolls.
    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • 1tommy1tommy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
    imageimage After searching for a rotated die for years I found this one in a box of 500 dollars, been told its not worth getting slabbed but after looking for yrs to finally find one felt good. And I always think that its funny no one noticed it before me. Also just found last week a lincoln penny 1993 that the In God We Trust is right on the upper rim which is small compared to the bottom being thicker, think its a off centered error, the back of the coin is right. Enjoy image
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