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Pokermandude
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Post your world errors! With an explanation too if you'd like to share how it came to be.
I'll start with my NEWP 1996 Canada $2 misaligned core. This happens when the centre core doesn't lock correctly in place. The core slid on top of the outer ring and striking in this position resulted in the odd shape (oblong on top, oval on the bottom). The visible portion of the core is larger on the reverse and smaller on the reverse. It was out of alignment enough to result in a crescent shaped blank space between the core and ring on one side.
I'll start with my NEWP 1996 Canada $2 misaligned core. This happens when the centre core doesn't lock correctly in place. The core slid on top of the outer ring and striking in this position resulted in the odd shape (oblong on top, oval on the bottom). The visible portion of the core is larger on the reverse and smaller on the reverse. It was out of alignment enough to result in a crescent shaped blank space between the core and ring on one side.
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I don't have any offhand. Once had an off-center George IV (182?) British shilling, and a few modern Mexican o/c's I bought for a song, but that's about it.
Oh yeah- I once cherrypicked a modern Aussie 10c with a rotated reverse out of a bulk bag, and sold it here on the forums, a few years back. I never would have seen that, but I had put the coin into a cardboard 2x2 and so noticed that the reverse was about 45-ish (or 270-ish) degrees out of kilter with the obverse.
PS- your OP coin looks like an eclipse. Cool.
<< <i>Just saw a Canadian Dollar struck on a half dollar planchet. >>
Very nice. Canadian wrong planchet errors are quite scarce, especially the larger denominations. Was it a 1968-1986 voyageur canoe design, or a 1987-date loon? If it was a loon dollar, it will be even more valuable due to it being off-metal.
I guess it pays to poke through the junk
<< <i> Pricing errors is even more of an art than coin grading though! >>
This is so true. There was a 2 euro coin minted in Greece, very similar to your error $2 coin, and its Chinese seller was asking $2000 for it, until the monthly auction eventually ended with no takers. I've seen the most bizarre shapes and forms in post 1976 Greek coins, to the extent that I wonder if they were made on purpose to create rarities. After all, how could such odd shapes escape the final quality control? Until recently, you could buy these coins for very little money, but now they might have a small following to make them realize $100-$150.
Errors on 19th century coins is a different story. Unfortunately, I rarely look at them so closely to discover them. The rotated reverse of the kind that lordmarcovan cherrypicked is a very common error on all sorts of coins, but it has to be a recorded (or unrecorded) variety of medal alignment (180 degrees) to bring the big bucks, otherwise it usually sells at practically no premium.
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<< <i>Oh yeah- I once cherrypicked a modern Aussie 10c with a rotated reverse out of a bulk bag, and sold it here on the forums, a few years back >>
One of mine?
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Here is the reverse.
Here is the reverse.
1964 Zambian Shilling with a security edge. Should have a plain milled edge. Clearly struck on an incorrect planchet.
2005 Australian Dollar Broadstrike
1936 British West Africa 1d muled with 1936 East Africa 10c
1965 New Zealand 6d "broken wing"
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