Is there a list of errors??

Is there a list of what errors there are for each year? Does a red book give all of them?

I am going through a large tin of coins tonight and I don't know which years have which error.

Do all years have an equal chance to get an error?

 

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I suggest you get both volumes of the Cherry Picker's Guide. Many coin shops and some book stores have them. You can order them from Amazon.com, but you'll have to wait a while to get them.

An online source that's great for copper cent errors and varieties is www.coppercoins.com. They have a very extensive listing of die varieties with pictures of the key features and coin markers to help you tell if a variety is authentic.

 

You should also get The Error Coin Encyclopedia (4th Edition) by Margolis & Weinberg.

 

i have used this site to look for errors. it gives a pretty good list of errors of what denomintation you want to look for errors in.

 

Okay, which books just tells you where to look to find ddo and ddr and stuff like that.

Does the red book tell you?

 

Ken potter has a good list -

http://koinpro.tripod.com/ErrorVarietyList.htm

Or here is a list from CONECA


http://hermes.csd.net/~coneca/variety_listings.html

http://hermes.csd.net/~coneca/content/var_index.html

All are great sources but not a 100% complete list-

 

First, decide on the series that you are interested in studying.
Then, there are individual books for many of them, for example: Barber dimes, quarters and half dollars.
Also, each Seated Lib series has its own book.
Cherrypickers is okay but they only scratch the surface.

In addition, you have to remember there are new varieties being discovered every day.
I recently wrote for the BCCS (Barber Coin Collectors Society) an article listing 6 (about 6) new repunched mintmarks for the 1916 D Barber quarter, and that is on top of another 10 or so already listed.
In addition, just recently (about 3 or 4 years ago) these was the discovery of a 1909 S Barber half dollar with an inverted mintmark, now listed in cherrypickers guide, without credit.
There is at least one more inverted mintmark that was recently discovered, and has not been published yet. (also on a Barber half dollar.)

So, (deep breath) to answer your question, NO, there is no 'complete' listing of varieties, since more are being discovered every day.

Good luck, and keep searching.

 

This is the first time I've heard this. I bought both volumes, but I haven't discarded any coins yet, based on their information. Do you have examples of inaccuracies in them?