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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3236931, member: 10461&quot;]One from my current collection:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Great Britain, silver shilling of George IV, ca. 1826-1829, off-center</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I received this coin as a generous freebie from a Hendersonville, NC dealer sometime around 1992-93, when I was collecting British coins.&nbsp; I fell on hard times in 1994 and sold it to [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER].&nbsp; He sold it on eBay sometime around or the millennium.&nbsp; Fast forward several more years, and by sheer chance I stumbled across it again on the Atlas Numismatics site in 2016.&nbsp; I knew right away it was <i>the very same coin</i> I&#039;d sold 22 years earlier, so of course I had to buy it back!&nbsp; (It cost me 5x what I&#039;d sold it for in 1994, but so what.)&nbsp; Shortly before I repurchased it, Atlas had gotten it slabbed by PCGS as XF40.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/mxGhX6TwqiNiGuoFBAOg_33019522_Large.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And two previously-owned pieces:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Ireland, copper halfpenny of George III, 1782, double-struck</b> (and a contemporary counterfeit)</p><p><br /></p><p>A very cool error coin, if a bit porous (though not as bad as the photo appears).&nbsp; I got this from Lost Dutchman Coins a few years ago, as I recall.&nbsp; Was going to put it in my Eclectic Box collection, but since this was an 18th century counterfeit (which are numerous with the George III Hibernias), it wouldn&#039;t slab (and if it had, it probably wouldn&#039;t have straight-graded), so I swapped or sold it away.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t mind finding another multiply-struck King George copper someday - they&#039;re out there, even in the regal issues - though I suspect errors like this might have been more common on the counterfeits.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen some really cool ones.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Ireland-halfpenny-error-1782-022965-coin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Germany (Weimar Republic): aluminum-bronze 10-rentenpfennig, 1924-A, off-center</b></p><p><br /></p><p>A relatively inexpensive pickup from a German dealer on MA-Shops.&nbsp; I ended up swapping or selling it before I ever got it slabbed, but it was a nice BU coin.&nbsp; Errors on German coins seemed to happen quite a bit in the Weimar era.</p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Germany-WiemarRep-10%20rentenpfennig-1924A-OCerror-005654-coin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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