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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 3051350, member: 71642&quot;]Are error coins an addiction by any chance???</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]763654[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Someone offered me some awesome picks from his collection and one of them is an error coin.&nbsp; These are tricky in Japan price-wise.&nbsp; Some have gone for (to me) mind bogglingly high numbers while others, not so much.&nbsp; I ended up going big on this one as an act of blind faith.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A DDO, and designated as such on a PCGS label, which means something in Japan.&nbsp; PCGS has graded 332 1871 20 sens of all varieties.&nbsp; 4 are the DDO, of which this the lowest example graded.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen a few coins with what appeared to be machine doubling, but I never saw what I thought was an outright double die.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]763655[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A bit closer:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]763656[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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