(1) Do you collect specific errors? (2) Do you collect errors by denomination? (3) Do you try to get several examples of a particular error? (4) Have you ever bought whole Rolls of a particular error? (5) Do you preffer Raw or Certified errors? My answers: (1) I like Double-strikes, Off-centers, and Broad-strikes. (2) No, I collect any errors. (3) Yes, I alwys try to get at least 2 examples of an error/variety. (4) Yes, I recently got whole rolls of "Broken Tomahawk", "Bee-Hive" and "Stick-man" nickel rolls. (I'm a BIG fan of Broken Tomahawk!!!) (5) Since most errors are Raw, that's what I get. I do have some Certified's, and several Raw coins that I want Certified.
1. Have broadstruck, double struck, improper metal mix, lamination just to have examples of. want to get a saddle stuck, multiple strike and clip. I really want to get a nickel struck on wrong planchet but talking $$. 2. Jefferson Nickels 3. No 4. No 5. no preference I am really focused on varieties in BU but want to have examples of errors as well and will aquire them if the price is right. I have found some nice errors in searching rolls such as cracked planchets, laminations, cuds, mixed metal.
(1) I collect errors, coin-art (modified coins) and forgeries from Belgium and The Netherlands. In the errorworld, I prefer offcenters, double strikes, large cud's and strikes on wrong planchets. I don't like clips or other planchet flaws, but I keep them anyway. (2) I try to find one of each denomination, and will give it an extra effort, if an errorcoin is offered of a denomination I don't already have in my collection. But other errors are always welcome (because they are all one of a kind!) (3) Of the major errors, I collect what I see offered. Of smaller errors, like diebreaks and cud's, I'm not that bothered. Varieties, my other speciality. Of these I want as much as I can find, so I can write a book about them when I'm old and gray, and get a nice price for them, when I sell my collection for my well-earned retirement (4) Not an option here in Belgium. Varieties and small errors aren't that popular here. They hardly get noticed. And the Euro is not for me. (5) I like them raw, because you can touch the coin, and fully apreciate them. When I would sell them (just before the retirement), I would have them slabbed, I guess. They do fetch a higher premium then. But for now, the cardboard coinholders will do just fine.
