The Unofficial Coin Talk Guide to Presidential Errors and Varieties

I was thinking, why not? These have been out for a whole four days? Three more to come by the end of the year? We're searching rolls, even boxes, with magnifying glasses? We can write the book on this one.

All we need to do is set up a gallery and post our "freaks." I have one already in Error Coins. It's a "CT1-Horns on the 1st G." "CT" is for "Coin Talk," right? You get the idea...

What about it, moderators?

 

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What's the question? Any member can start a thread with any coin-related topic they choose. For the subject you're suggesting US Coins, Error Coins or Coin Chat would all be appropriate, so pick one and go for it.

Or just use this thread if you want to.[/QUOTE]

 

I'm afraid you've lost me.
What is it you are seeking to do?

 

Jody,I think they want to do a catalogue on the mint errors in the Presidential $1 coin series.

Aidan.

 

Hello, Aiden.

I don't see any problems with that.

I assume that the "errors" will be the the usual minor imperfections that go along with the modern high-speed minting process, which, BTW, are not considered "errors", and are not culled by Mint inspectors, but are considered perfectly good for use in commerce.

Feel free to start a gallery of Presidential blemishes, or post the latest one on this thread.

As there are likely to be thousands of different ones, it might get annoying to start a new thread every time someone finds what they think is a new Presidential "error".

 

Yeah, OK, but I just thought we might want to start classifying these a little more formally. We have the experts, here, to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff. And collectively we must have gone over thousands of these by now. Maybe a folder for the ones that pass the scrutiny would provide a useful little reference guide. This is just the first rattle out of the cradle on these, and they're releasing new issues every quarter. Why should "VAM" catalogue these, what are we, chopped liver?

 

eddiespin - If you are talking about some kind of searchable data base cataloging and/or classifying the various errors or psuedo errors found, CoinTalk is not set up for such a project; and it certainly wouldn't be fair to ask Peter to spend the additional resources needed to make something like that work for the benefit of what is undoubtedly a minority of CoinTalk members.

If enough error collector members think it is a worthwhile project, they can use a site owned by one of them, or organize as a group and establish a site for it. You will definitely need substantial storage space, and someone to set up the software and design the database.

If I am misunderstanding you, and all you want is a place to report the discovery of "errors", without worrying about whether someone else has already reported the same one, just post them to this thread.

 

Roy, OK, but I really wasn't suggesting anything too fancy. Just a folder of some kind, just for the ones that pass the (let's call it) requisite scrutiny. A thread will work for at least looking these over. It would be nice, though, if we could corral them all in one place (the "McCoys," if you will), for easy reference. Just thinking of all that are going to be coming down the chute, and there's no reference guide on these...

 

Not many people collect these, they seem like gimmiks for beginners.

Big J

 

You know, it's interesting, I was in Brussels last year, and the Euro 1 and 2 dollar-equivalents seem to circulate just fine.