Here's a neat off-metal/wrong planchet error: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3029998880 Calling it a "transitional" error is a bit of a...
I've added to the weak strikes album images of strange nickel which features a small die-struck area in the lower left quadrant of the reverse, and a...
Here's a familiar error combo: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3028093038 We have an indent in association with a substantial horizontal ...
Here's an excellent example of a clashed cap strike: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?viewitem&item=3028189287 A strong raised ghost of the obverse design...
Here's a bicentennial quarter with a rotated die error: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3028967492 Since proof coins are struck at least...
My article on atypical cuds is now up on the CONECA website. http://conecaonline.org/content/FourUnusualCudsMDiamond.htm I have added additional photographs...
A pal of mine sent me this URL and was wanting to know my opinion on this coin: http://www.civitasgalleries.com/images/defectivenickel.jpg It's an off center...
Here's a slabbed cent apparently mislabeled by PCGS as a counterbrockage/broadstrike: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3028542790 It is...
Here's a cent mislabeled by ANACS as an elliptical clip: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3028166088 This is actually an elliptical strike...
Hi group, I have been curious lately about split die coins which have been struck through die caps. Split die coins seem to be fairly prevalent in combination...
There are 3 large error collections in the Bowers and Merena auction at the summer Baltimore ANA show. Total errors will be around 400 pieces, including more...
Here's that 1930-S Standing Liberty quarter with the retained hammer die cud: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3025653878 Best preserved...
One error type that has puzzled me over the years is retained cuds affecting the hammer die. A retained cud is produced when a piece of the die breaks off, but...
This cud is associated with a well-known design transfer error: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3026500534 After breaking off, the die...
I've posted this message elsewhere and gotten no answer as yet. We have been composing article for our magazine, Error Trends. One such article discusses...
Here's what looks like a fully developed "ram strike". From the looks of it, this off-center cent was forced all the way into a collar that was frozen in the...
This is off topic from errors, but I get more response here than on RCC. I certainly know about not cleaning coins. This looks like a nice coin, possibly AU....
I am beginning to accumulate enough coins and rolls of coins of value that I am considering purchasing a safe that can be bolted to the wall or floor. I am...
Well, Now that I look closer at it, what looks like a 1999 without my loupe, is actually a 1990 with a small portion of the zero cut off by the very thin rim...
Came across a GEM 1999 D Roosevelt today with a very off center strike on the obverse. Reverse is a normal strike. Left rim at least twice as thick as the...
With the recent opening up of the CONECA website as a new outlet for writers, error aficianados now have the opportunity to publish their findings in either...
I have the latest edition of the "CherryPickers" book on mint errors, alas it only includes cents and nickels. I understand the next issue for denominations of...
Rumor has it that there are some state quarters where the reverse is upside down, or at some other angle. Is there any truth to this, and if so what...
I refer to this error as "Wide AM". I have found one in a 2000 coin. I see mention on other groups that it can be found in 99 as well as 98 and 2000. Is...
Are there any know errors in Roosevelt dimes in early 80s where the D and the top of the P are filled in? I have found two, and they are both AU grade, but...
1) Look at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3025262365 I think the second coin the broadcast brockage is mirrored but has positive relief...
Here's an unusual case of clashed dies: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3024023645 Usually the pillars of the Memorial are confined to the...
