Japan error coins

That's a cool bulk find!!!

 

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Just how on earth you manage to find such a brockage from a bulk coin lot? Japanese brockage coins are just rare to start off with. Even in such condition, I reckon it's easily 100+.

 

Are error coins an addiction by any chance???



Someone offered me some awesome picks from his collection and one of them is an error coin. These are tricky in Japan price-wise. Some have gone for (to me) mind bogglingly high numbers while others, not so much. I ended up going big on this one as an act of blind faith.

A DDO, and designated as such on a PCGS label, which means something in Japan. PCGS has graded 332 1871 20 sens of all varieties. 4 are the DDO, of which this the lowest example graded.

The PCGS designation lends a credibility factor to my arms length assessment of the Japanese market (ie gawking at auctions), so I found the asking price accpetable.

I've seen a few coins with what appeared to be machine doubling, but I never saw what I thought was an outright double die.



A bit closer:

 

Very cool error! Beautiful coin

 

Another addition for this thread. It's a strike through according to the seller (and confirmed by some random US seller with the most amazing US errors who was set up at Baltimore). I'm not 100% sure of these with my own eye we'll just say. I mean, I liked it, I bought the coin, and couldn't resist asking the rando guy. The date is the scarcity for the reeded edge 10 yens.

 

It's been over a year since I've posted, but I have a newp that belongs here.

Well, it took a bit of time and finally found the 1 sen. Happy to get the square scales as my half sen is the sharp. I really was fine with a raw one, but this graded one caught my eye, if nothing else because for the life of me, how did it get that label? First strike?! I thought that was a phenomena of modern proofs. Maybe there are mint records of brockage trials before regular minting??? I have no idea, and it wasn't all that much more than I would have paid for a raw one. Plus it's in pretty decent shape too.

 

I have some off-center annular-hole Five-Yen coins, too.

Here's my only "certified" error, although not graded:

 

The off center holes, the more modern the coin the better, have gotten seriously popular in the Japanese auctions I follow. This is the only one in the last auction. Barely off center and cleared this price. Could have gone for double or triple had it been more dramatic. Or, in the Heisei era.
https://en.auction-world.co/xpai/item.jsp?id=50030

 

Good to know!
Thanks for the info and link, Stork.

Cheers.