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Message:: [QUOTE="Collect89, post: 672803, member: 15445"]Sorry for any confusion.  Like most, I think much more than I type. I meant to state that there were four or five good sized coin shops in Buenos Aires.  This indicates that there is a decent coin collecting population located there.  I spent time in each of the shops & they were well stocked & had patrons.  The error coins offered to me were not low cost.  Perhaps they were just trying to get bigger money from me because I was a tourist.  There was about as much error coin collecting interest & material as I would expect to see at a USA coin shop.  There were perhaps a dozen or two dozen error coins shown to me at each shop.  (As I recall, one shop claimed that they had no errors to show me but I ended up buying a rotated reverse there). The Argentina error coin I bought yesterday is an obverse die cap.  The coin was stuck to the obverse die while it continued to stamp coins.  My coin was struck by 10 Centavo dies so it is a 10 Centavo coin.  The 10 Centavo die has the Argentina arms.  The 50 Centavo die has a bust of Liberty.  My brain said "struck by dies for the 10-Centavo coin" while I was typing.  Perhaps it was a 50 Centavo blank struck by 10 Centavo dies.  I doubt that could happen (size of blank being too large for the machine) so it's probably just an incorrect label by NGC.  Very best regards,collect89[/QUOTE]