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Die clashes have been studied by coin collectors and numismatic researchers for many years.
For very obvious clashes, one can simply flip over a coin and see the feature of an obverse that met with a reverse die. Sometimes it is not so obvious. In these cases ...
Full Article: Die clashes come alive through video - Numismatic News
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NGC has certified a Zachary Taylor Presidential $1 coin that bears the date 2010 D. The Zachary Taylor coin was the fourth Presidential dollar released in 2009 and should correctly bear the date 2009, not 2010. This is the first time that the wrong date has been reported on an edge-lettered US dollar.
The date on each ...
Full Article: Misdated Presidential Dollar Excites Error Collectors - NGC
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The general manager of the Chilean mint has been dismissed after thousands of coins were issued with the name of the country spelt wrongly.
The 50-peso coins - worth about 10 cents (6p) - were issued in 2008, but no-one noticed the mistake until late last year. Instead of C-H-I-L-E, the coins had C-H-I-I-E stamped on them. The coins have since become collectors' items ...
Full Article: Chile mint boss pays the price of coin spelling howler - BBCNews
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Of all the errors and varieties I featured last year, arguably the most important, at least in terms of rarity and value, was a second known specimen of the elusive 1992 Philadelphia-Mint Lincoln cent struck with a “Close AM” (of AMERICA) design style reverse. This year I start out by informing readers that a third specimen has now been located.
Back in the middle of September a Numismatic News reader from Connecticut sent me images of a specimen in an Numismatic Guaranty Corp. holder graded AU-55 RB. The variety, which has become almost mythological ...
Full Article: Rare Cent Count Reaches Three - NumisMaster.com
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U.S. coins struck with dies of different denominations are extremely rare. Until recent years, none were known.
The most famous among those are the Sacagawea dollar reverse, paired with a statehood quarter obverse, of which ten examples are known, per Fred Weinberg. In Heritage’s April 2006 Central States Signature, a 1999 cent with a dime reverse ...
Full Article: Double Denomination Mule 1993-D Cent with Dime Reverse - CoinLink
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Gary Kelly of Michigan has come up with 2008-D Martin Van Buren Presidential dollar with a pretty rare error type known as the Dropped Letter or Dropped Design. In fact, this is the first of this error type that I have been able to report on since the Presidential dollar series began in early 2007.
While I have reported on dropped characters many times in the past few years, this one is different from all the rest in that instead of the errant character occurring on the obverse or reverse of the coin, this is the first one to ...
Full Article: Odd Type of Error Appears on Edge - Numismatic News
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Make no mistake about it, Lincoln Memorial cents thanks to errors, composition changes and an assortment of interesting coins have a lot more to offer than many expect. It is an excellent time to start or finish a Lincoln Memorial reverse cent collection.
The Lincoln Memorial reverse was much bigger news in 1959 than hobby history has remembered it for us. Those of us who have personal memories know ...
Full Article: Memorial Cents Offer Interesting Varieties - NumisMaster
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Suzanne Steward of Abacus Coins, Va., sent in several interesting errors. The first is a 1947-S Washington quarter that at first glance appears to show a series of die breaks on the reverse. However, after a closer look I found the effects to be the result of occluded gas within the planchet itself. Gas along with ...
Full Article: Strange Planchet Effect Due to Trapped Gas - NumisMaster
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Some believe that there are as many as 60 examples extant of 1857 Flying Eagle cents clashed with a $20 Double Eagle obverse design. If this was indeed the case, it would make this a very scarce variety. However, I personally disagree with that figure and I would estimate that less than half of this estimate actually exists!
One of the main reasons ...
Full Article: 1857 Flying Eagle Cent Die Clashed With $20 Double Eagle - PCGS.com
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