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Message:: [QUOTE="Carthago, post: 2360568, member: 76111"]As a kid, I collected US mint errors.  I still have the collection today packed away someplace in storage.  I remember asking my dad, who collected ancients, if there were ancient mint errors.  He said "they all have errors".  My 8th grade science project was on coin production and mint errors, with the title "To Error is Human".  I think I won 3rd place somewhere around the time I won a suspension from school for a cafeteria "incident"...but I digress. I saw some cool errors in the final liquidation of RBW stragglers in CNG earlier this year.  I bid on a few of them but was heartily outbid.  I just bought this one last weekend and am still waiting to get it.  Note the interesting ligature of L and P on the reverse of this issue. C. Sulpicius C.f. Galba. AR serrate Denarius (18-21 mm, 3.83 g), 106 BC. Obv. D P P, Jugate, laureate heads of Dei Penates to left.Rev. C SVLPICI C F, two soldiers standing facing each other, holding spears and pointing at sow which lies between them.  Babelon Sulpicia 1. Sydenham 572. RBW 1155. Crawford 312/1. A particularly bold flip-over double strike: the flan was struck twice but flipped over in between, resulting in an interesting mint error. [ATTACH=full]481449[/ATTACH] Please feel free to post any interesting mint errors you might have.  [/QUOTE]