Error Coins
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Coin Errors--Does That Penny Look Right?
The United States Mint has some of the best quality control in the world. But now and then errors occur as coins are made, and some of those errors make their way into circulation, and therefore into the hands of the public. And when those coins get into circulation there are thousands of people who are interested in collecting them! Some people find them interesting or curious. Some people are interested in figuring out what went wrong to make the coin look that way. And some people find error coins to be great investments.
"Boy is That Penny Messed Up!"
That's what my daughter said when she saw her first error coin. It was a Lincoln Cent which had been struck 47% off-center. And she was right, that coin was really messed up!
Have you ever gotten a coin that just didn't look right? Maybe it was the wrong color. Perhaps the lettering looked blurry or doubled. Maybe there was even a letter missing! Was the buffalo on the nickel missing a leg? Did Honest Abe just seem to have too many fingers? Maybe it looked like a bolt of lightning was striking our sixteenth President in the head! Did it look like there were two numbers on the date where there should only be one? All of these things, and even more, have occurred in the minting of United States coins. If you get one, don't throw it away. If it is genuine it may be worth ten, a hundred, or maybe even a hundred thousand times face value!
Coin Errors on CafePress
Some Coins are Too Cool to Spend!
Cool Coins -- Lincoln Cent Fitted T-Shirt
This 1955 Doubled Die Cent is Too Cool to Spend!
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Error Coins in the Blogosphere
- The Gold and Silver Mine > You won't err in searching for error coins
- There are collectors who specialize in collecting only error coins and paper money. And the errors vary from common to extremely rare. Some examples of coin errors are: 1. Clipped planchet, when the blank was punched out of the sheet of metal, ...
- Isolated incuse letter on 2001-D 1c probably not a Mint error
- By Mike Diamond-Special to Coin World | June 02, 2012 9:57 am An isolated incuse T sits in the field to the right of Lincoln's face on this 2001-D Lincoln cent. Isolated incuse design elements arise from many causes, both inside and outside the Mint.
- San Francisco Mint Cuts Waste, Not Quality
- And all while ensuring that the proof coins are error free. ?We try to make it impossible to make an error,? Eckerman said. ?Our prototype is a vision system that looks at a die once it is installed in a press and compares it with what is supposed to ...
Lincoln Cents Which Don't Look Quite Right
Problem Pennies
A J-Jefferson Nickel
Doubly Striking Nickel Error
Nasty Nickels
FDR -- Right of Center?
Sometimes coin errors can make you smile if you put a little thought into them, and you don't find them too "pun"-ishing. Here's a Roosevelt Dimes that was struck off-center making it appear that FDR may be just a little bit Right of Center.
Disfigured Dimes
An Error on the Kansas State Quarter?
In God We ... Rust? I've Heard of Separation of Church and State, But ...
This is a photograph of the "Rust Quarter." Actually this is a real Kansas State Quarter minted in 2005. Minting coins is a mechanical process, and in order to prevent damage to the machinery which makes the coins grease is used to reduce friction. In this case grease made its way to the die which produces the image on the coin, and got into the of the first "T" in "Trust." The resulting wording therefore appears to be "In God We Rust." This type of error, known as a "Struck Through Grease" error, or a "Filled Die" error, is fairly common, and in this case humorous (or blasphemous).
Quazy Quarters and Coin Collecting
Half-Baked Half Dollars
Dinged Up Dollars
The Minting Process
The P-D-S System
Year and mintmark are another way that collectors differentiate one coin from another. But collectors of error coins need try to classify their coins by the type of error that the coin exhibits.
Great Supplier of Coins and Supplies
Coin Supplies at Great Discounts
Coin Error Reference Materials
The Most Famous Error of All?
The 1955 Doubled Die Lincoln Cent
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I certainly hope not, and that you found this page interesting and informative. Do you collect error coins? Have you ever found an error coin? What did you like here? What was definitely an error to include?
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TKsKnacks
Mar 11, 2012 @ 10:34 am | delete
- I never knew how many error coins there could actually be. Great!
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getmoreinfo
Mar 9, 2012 @ 8:00 pm | delete
- These are the rare coins that have the highest value, for once an error is a good thing. LOL
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AlexandraHubbard
Aug 3, 2011 @ 1:03 pm | delete
- Wow, it never occurred to me that some coins don't turn out right. How neat looking! The rust one made me laugh out loud!
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A Recent Acquisition
An 1864 Two Cent Piece exhibiting a Repunched Date. Note the doubling on the first digits of the year. I especially like the fact that this is a "first year" coin, which is one of the areas on which on concentrate.
by ViolinStudent
Arthur Haule began collecting coins on Christmas Day, 1963 when his Grandparents gave him two Lincoln Cent folders with about thirty coins in them. He...
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