What Error/Variety Coins Do You Collect?

Luckily, I've been able to narrow it down to everything in numismatics. But the Lincoln series holds my heart with his eloquence, integrity and DDO's, DDR's, clashes, die defects/damage, striking errors, etc. As others have said, the more dramatic the variety or error, the better I like it.

As to rolls being expensive. Do you generally pay "grey sheet" prices for them?

I do love hearing your stories about having 50 rolls of 19xx to look for varieties. I can only dream of times like those and then I have to bite the bullet and pony up to get 4-5 rolls of 1955D, 1060D, or 1972.

But that's what happens to "supply and demand" when we open true OBW rolls, the price eventually goes up, up, and away. I didn't get back into collecting until 2013, so I don't have the memories of "affordable" rolls.



These are fun to come across. They cause me to snicker.
Although not officially by the US mint, you might be interested in US Civil War tokens and Store cards.

One variety of this one says, "Shoot him on the Spoot" instead of "Shoot him on the Spot." https://en.numista.com/catalogue/ex...ia30397.html
(No one wants to be shot on their "Spoot". )

Sap


My favourite "Error/variety" coins, however, are the ones where the Mint actually makes a spelling error in the coin's design and has to issue new coins with the corrected spelling - something the US Mint has so far seemed to avoid, but which can be found on some other countries' coinages. The Philippines, Brazil and Chile are noteworthy examples - the last two being particularly embarrassing, as they actually managed to mis-spell the name of their own country. BBASIL and CHIIE.

Can you actually show some samples of the misspelling on any ( maybe one) on USA coins ? , no errors like on greasers or broken dies but actually words that are misspell on the die ?

I love multi-struck coins and tend to buy a lot of dimes with detached reeding. These are struck once in the collar and then broad struck. This causes the reed to break as it's stretched. Here's an example.

I collect Lincoln Cent DDO-001 coins, and top grade Lincoln Cent FS varieties. But along the way have managed to put together a collection of a couple thousand minor varieties on Lincoln cents. Other denomination varieties, as well as errors in general, intrigue me and I collect some of those as well.

I am curious, why just the ones listed as -001? Admittedly those are often the most dramatic, but that's not universally the case.

Mostly I just love to search and find, more than collect, for me, it's mostly about the "find". I have jumped from Morgan dollars to Lincoln cents and all that falls in between. My greatest love though for the past several years is to search Lincoln bank rolls for whatever is out there. I have taught myself, with the help of others, to look for many different things, in many different currencies, that way I have a better chance of finding something. Doubled dies, RPM's, OMM's transitional varieties, overdates, rotated dies, rare VAM's, silver coins in common currency, silver certificates in common currency, trail dies, many different errors, too numerous to list (still learning many of these), and so much more. If you love searching coins and different numista, than I suggest learning as much as possible and your odds of finding something will be much greater. Sites such as this are a good way of learning new things that you may have not been aware of already. Good searching to you, Ray and everyone else.

Sounds like an awesome collection!