Argentinian Errors, I need your thoughts?

Oh man, that's terrible! It reminds me of a story of when I was in Paris and met some pretty girls. One of them accidentally dropped her camera while stepping onto the metro. It managed to fall through the gap and was never seen again. Sad day

 

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Ces't la vie.. ha I always wanted to say that

 

The 1992 DDO example is very nice. The serifs are from each hub striking are separated, so I believe it's a doubled die. As for the first example with the different font, I think you got a good eye and have a point. It is different for sure, but I don't know if that would be a different official variety considering it's pretty subtle.

 

Nice DDO, I'm still looking for world DDOs and so far empty handed.. Only looking in my dealers junk box.

 

I found a nice Belgium 1962 franc ddo that I posted about earlier. After finding that, I just finished looking through all my world coins and couldn't find anything else with a doubled die. I did find a Canadian nickel, 1977 low 7 variety in circ condition which is cool. It makes you wonder how common doubled dies really are because I haven't seen too many

 

so far I've found four major DDO's, in about a year of looking. One was picked out of common wheat cents at my local dealer, a 1936 ddo die 1.

 

Very nice. I've kinda given up searching for them in US coins. They are more elusive, expensive, and so on in comparison to world coins. I pay for world coins by the pound in a lot of cases, and this shop I go to only takes out silver. It's just first come, first served over there.

 

I like to buy coins by the pound as well but I find it harder and harder to find a good place that hasn't picked everything pre 1960s. Seems like they take out all the silver and anything that could possibly have any value. I assume you buy all of yours from a dealer? Mine were eBay purchases and obviously those come with certain risks.

 

The coin with the "different font" is just a striking issue. The letters haven't completely struck up and since the metal move outward away from the center of the coin the uprights closer to the center of the coin are the last places to fill. This results in the "dimpled" effect you are seeing. On early US coins it is referred to as bifurcated lettering.

 

Yeah. I know one dealer who takes just about everything out and sells the junk. The other dealer I go to sells only US coins, but he buys whatever comes in. He throws all nonsilver world coins in a bucket for customers like me. He sells 6 dollars a pound, but he lets me sit and go through it all, take what I want, and then charges me. In the past month he hasn't got any world coins in though. I also get world coins at flea/antique markets. Sometimes I run into a lot for a good price at these places, sometimes not. You should check out your local antique markets, you never know what's there

 

I absolutely love flea/antique markets but there aren't too many around where I'm from and I rarely have the time to go and when I do have the time, I spend it relaxing and recuperating from work. I do know one or two dealers that have tons of world coins so when my coin budget is back in balance (I spent a little bit much a while ago on pounds of world coins) I'll start venturing out. Right now, I still have quite a few countries to catalog. Let me know in a private message if you ever have interest in trading; I'm more than happy to share my excess list.