I have recently come across a few coins with rim errors in my pocket change. They have large portions of rim missing from the minting process, usually only on one side of the coin. The opposite end of the rim error typically has a bit of extra material where it looks like the upsetting mill caught the coin off-center. In the case of the Washington Quarter in my photo, the reeding intrudes into the rim itself creating double reeding on a portion of the coin. None of these have any distortion to the design of the coin, but the messed up rim is easily caught by the naked eye. I was curious if coins with rim errors like the ones I have pictured are worth keeping or am I better off rolling them up with the rest of my spare change.
I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination but I'll put in my tw cents. I don't know anything about the reeding on the quarter but I come across cents and nickels like you are showing. What I'm seeing is a misalligned die. I don't keep any unless it cuts off some of the lettering. But thats just me. Even the ones I keep I don't think bring much or any of a premium.
The pics are a little too small to tell for sure but the quarter might be a collar clash. The cents are probably what Sodbuster said.
The 73 cent and the 82 cent are slight misaligned dies. The 1973 shows some rim finning. The quarter is the result of a collar clash. At one point the die was misaligned far enough that the part of the die that forms the top edge of the rim clashed against to top edge of the collar leaving a clashmark there that shows the top edge of the reeding. Then the die was re-aligned and now you see the clashmark that makes it look like there is a double set of reeds along that edge.
Not in my opinion. Clashmarks are an interesting curiosity but seldom command a premium. Two exceptions to this are severe misaligned die clashes, or mismatched denomination die clashes. Another would be in the case of a severe clash where almost the entire design is shown as a die clash
That is pretty interesting ska69. Thanks for sharing this thread with me. I know minor defects like the 2 I put on and urs isnt gonna bring a whopping amount of $ but just to know that it is an error is gratifying. Besides I don't collect for myself or for profit. I collect for a pass down to my kids later in life or grand kids if I ever get any.
I couldn't agree more. I don't plan to sell any of my collection, I'm going to pass it along to my son. I post on Coin Talk primarily to understand what it is that I have in my collection and what to be on the lookout for. Error coins are pretty hit or miss when it comes to a premium. I've seen some pretty cool looking stuff that isn't worth much over face value and have seen some lame stuff command a huge premium. I guess with error coins, it's not always the degree of error, more the rareness. I find some mint errors to be kinda sketchy too, stuff that is more than likely authentic, however, I don't believe for a second accidentally slipped into circulation unnoticed by the mint. I believe that a lot of the really outlandish errors probably left the mint in an employees pocket. To me, those errors are just as fake as a forgery. That's why I appreciate the subtle errors more.
