Errors on non-US Coins

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Here's another "world" error coin that DID NOT go cheap:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160356012896&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I guess I'm going to have to start up'n my bids. :goof:

Ribbit

Ps: That one did have US ties so that did affect the price.

 

I love old German coins, can't get enough of them. I don't have any error ones though but I would like to find some. My Mothers family came from Prussia and I've been collecting them for years and always will. chrisild do you know of a site I can go to and find error German coins?
Bob

 

Don't know much about Prussian (or German Empire) coins, and as I wrote, I do not collect error coins myself. But here is a dealer in Germany who has some: http://www.franquinet.de/en/Errors.htm Well renowned dealer and coin expert; not many photos of the coins though.

You could also try out this site:
http://www.muenzauktion.com/shops/search.php5?lang=en&curr=USDEUR&searchstr=fehlpr%E4gung

Muenzauktion and MA-Shops is a site where many dealers auction or sell coins. The link includes a search string for errors and sets the currency to USD. Hope it works ...

Christian

 

Adoration... I got one that looks like a match of your Augustus. What do ya think. And the Back of the Argentinian coin was like a Rorschach test to me..i thought i was seeing Hapsburg Eagle... Traci

 

Not even close. Mine is a brockage error on a coin of Tiberius, where a new coin is struck while another is still stuck to the dies, causing an incuse and retrograde design, whereas yours is a standard provincial coin from somewhere in the east during the first century.

 

Here's an interesting Candadian error coin set:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Canada-1962-Penny-Nickel-Error-Type-Set-6-Coins-LOOK_W0QQitemZ170376288109

Ribbit

 

Very interesting discussion and most of the posts were great.

I would just like to say that error coins popularity should be a percent of the collectors of the country plus specialized error collectors. If the country's coinage are widely collected and documented like US and UK, then the popularity goes up accordingly.

Taking an example of Indian coinage which I collect, the British Imperial error coinage is very much popular while the modern ones are not so much.

 

I used to collect Britain and Commonwealth of the reign of KGVI.
I probably had the collection 80-85% done.
But there were two major problems for me.
The southern African colonies had some tough coins to find, particularly with the "SA" mintmark.
The other was Indian rupees.
K&M listed many varieties, most of which I could ID.
But the "Large 5" vs. the "Small 5" I never got a handle on.
Even Pridmore didn't differentiate the two.

 

Very easy to differentiate the large and small 5's.

Not my coin or picture but just to illustrate the large 5.

 

The Rupee also has the same type of 5. Quoting the auction catalog "While KM breaks these down to a large and small date for this year, the real differences are in the size of the 9 and 5. The bottom loop of both denominations swoop well below the 1 and 4. "