My first error coin was a 1969-S base of bust cud. It is cataloged as LC-69s-04. I found my first example while roll searching cents sometime around 1970. I'll never forget the find. It looked like someone had hit the coin with a hammer but upon closer inspection, the metal was raised & not incuse. My local coin dealer offered me $8 which was quite the profit for a coin costing only 1-cent. I never sold it & still have the original coin in my collection. Today, I received another sample of LC-69S-04 in the mail.:smile Here are my photos: Thanks for letting me share & please post your first error coin.
i currently don;t have any errors, but i am looking for one! the closest i have is a pillar missing from the lincoln monument on a cent.
My first error was the day I started collecting coins. I was at a coin collecting merit badge at the summer f.u.n. convention in Orlando. I was given a big envelope at the beginning of the merit badge that had some coins in it and one of the coins was the 1960 D small date die clash penny.
Of course I found grease filled dies, but this double clipped planchet was the first not so common error I ever had (roll searching). The clips are at 9:00 and about 6:30 (the smaller one is easier to above States on the reverse) BTW, that cud looks fantastic!
I'm not big on error coins. I don't even seek out error coins but I did come across a 2000-P New Hampshire State Quarter that is missing a layer on the obverse side. I posted pics here: http://www.cointalk.com/t194636-3/#post1303796 I'd consider this my first error coin since I've never bought any and don't have any others in my collection.
post a photo I wonder what caused the pillar to be missing. Perhaps the die was filled with some debris?
Of course I remember seeing the coin & wondering how it could circulate so long before you spotted it. That was a really nice circulation find. I really like coins that are the wrong color like your missing obverse clad layer example. Here is one that I found last week. (Not a circulation find) I found it on EBay. It has the color of a missing clad layer error but the color is all over the coin. Apparently, it had an extended stay in the annealing system and picked-up the copper colored coating. The coating is breaking away in some small areas (see obverse rim area).
This wasn't my first error coin, but it was my first major error and the first one I got directly from the Mint. In late 2004, the Mint decided to release the 2001 Kennedy in a $100 Mixed P&D bag. This is one of only two known for this denomination/date/mintmark. The other was also found in a $100 bag, and the owner got $555 for it in an eBay auction. The cost of this coin to me (excluding the grading fees) was 68c. The story about the grading was an interesting story in itself. You see, at that time non-dealer members of NGC were permitted to make appointments to deliver their submissions in person, and this is what I used to do because I'm only an hour south of their offices. Anyway, this coin was part of a 50+ coin submission, and when I returned to take delivery, I took the boxes into one of the small rooms available for customers to check their coins and I discovered that the error coin was missing. The customer service rep who was assisting me excused herself to search for it. About a half-hour went by when she returned to inform me that she couldn't find it. At that point, a half dozen other employees dropped what they were doing to search for it. Another half hour went by when she returned with the coin in hand and a big smile on her face. She explained that they had looked all through the vault, in the grading room, QC, etc. It turned out that it had been in the vault the whole time. You see, everyone was looking for a Kennedy, but because the coin was mounted in the slab with the error facing up, no one was expecting to look for a copper-colored half dollar. Chris
My first world coin with a nice die crack: My first Canadian coin with a minor clip: My first U.S. coin with a retained struck through:
What is the difference between "retained struck through" and "retained strike through"? It all depends on how it is being used in a sentence. That's a cool retained strike through, diggit! Chris
If you go to www.coppercoins.com on the 1946-D RPM#10 my name is on it as finding it.but I was hoping it was a new type of 46-D/S http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/diestate.php?date=1946&die_id=1946d1mm010&die_state=lds
