What's your coolest error ?

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  • oreville
    oreville Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Stew, you liked my 2002 PCGS VG-10 cent.
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  • STEWARTBLAYNUMIS
    STEWARTBLAYNUMIS Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭
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    A friend called me up and told me he has a double denomination bill. A $5 on the obverse and a $10 on the reverse and it is crisp uncirculated. He told me he would not sell it. Maybe I can bribe him to get it.

    Stewart
  • GeorgeKellogg
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    Here is the 1841-D quarter eagle that I referred to above. This coin really doesn't have my "look," but I couldn't resist the dramatic rotation. Although the TrueView doesn't show the rotation, the top of the Eagle's head is pointed at the 9 o'clock position--a startling rotation that everybody "gets." All 4,164 of the 1841-D quarter eagles were minted in a single press run on April 30, 1841. The coin is from the Harry Bass Collection and earlier from Stanley Kesselman, on May 21, 1968.

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  • HoledandCreative
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  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2018 9:04AM
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    @STEWARTBLAYNUMIS said:
    Mine is probably my 1974 S Aluminum cent struck as a Lincoln cent proof and sent from the mint in a proof set.

    Stewart

    Sounds sweet Stewart. Do you have any pics of this coin?

    Imagine a full 1974 PDS aluminum cent set?

  • Gluggo
    Gluggo Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1898 Omaha Nebraska Trans-Mississippi Exposition So-Called Dollar Indian Buffalo

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2018 9:33AM
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    @Gluggo I love So-Called Dollar errors and that's a beautiful double strike!

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2018 10:02AM
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    Beautiful and impressive full brockage @afford. Congrats.

  • mrearlygold
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  • wooglout
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    Do children count?

  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The 1855-D gold dollar, for which I paid way too much money. I still enjoy the coin.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • USAFRETWI
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  • BustDMs
    BustDMs Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Possibly the finest known unlettered edge Capped Bust half dollar, 1812. Ex Elton Dosier, Stew Witham, Russ Logan, Henry Hilgard. It is imaged in the Logan sale catalog.

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  • Sonorandesertrat
    Sonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Proof 65 Lincoln cent struck on a dime planchet

    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

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  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @BillJones said:
    The 1855-D gold dollar, for which I paid way too much money. I still enjoy the coin.

    What's the error?

  • Broadstruck
    Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @mrearlygold said:

    @mrearlygold How many pizza's do you need for that? ;):D

    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • Mr Lindy
    Mr Lindy Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Do you have images of this cool 1974S aluminum error Cent Stewart ?

    @STEWARTBLAYNUMIS said:
    Mine is probably my 1974 S Aluminum cent struck as a Lincoln cent proof and sent from the mint in a proof set.

    Stewart

  • BillJones
    BillJones Posts: 35,933 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Zoins said:

    @BillJones said:
    The 1855-D gold dollar, for which I paid way too much money. I still enjoy the coin.

    What's the error?

    The "error" was getting carried away in an auction and paying WAY too much. I had a warning. I was bidding live, and the person who ran me up was a phone bidder. They made a bid, and I was ready to drop out. Then they withdrew the bid which was the only time I have seen someone not honor a bid and have the auctioneer let them do it. The auctioneer asked me if I would like to honor my previous bid or have the lot re-opened. I honored the previous bid. That was probably a mistake.

    The coin is well struck and original, bit others have purchased better examples at auction for a whole lot less.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • Coinshowman
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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Six years later (from the OP) and I still do not have any cool errors.... :( I guess I will have to rectify this unforgivable situation....Mea Culpa....Cheers, RickO

  • cmerlo1
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    I used to own this one:

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  • LanceNewmanOCC
    LanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 9, 2018 11:02AM
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    @SullivanNumismatics said:
    1896 liberty nickel obverse deep die cap--flip-over double-strike, with "1896" on both sides of the coin. One of 2 known die caps for the series, and the only liberty nickel die cap that is a straight die cap.

    As a bonus, the coin is also NGC MS66!

    oh come on. that error is way too neat and the first of its kind i've ever seen.

    when i read the descript before seeing the images, i was like, no way. little did i know. :)
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  • lkeigwin
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  • Sonorandesertrat
    Sonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The insert is never wrong. Adjust your coin-viewing vision accordingly.

    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

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  • ilikemonsters
    ilikemonsters Posts: 767 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 9, 2018 12:43PM
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    @boiler78 said:
    Nothing nearly as cool as Stewart's ...... but here is my best error coin

    That is too cool! Do you still own this 6 years later? .. The off center morgan?

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