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Where Can I Sell My Circulated, Error Coins?

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 Posted 04/20/2023  11:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nick10 to your friends list
The 1944-S is damaged, but don't despair! Error coins remain ready to find from circulation, but they are outnumbered by unusual looking coins that merely have been damaged. If you can imagine a way to change an undamaged coin into one like you see, that's probably exactly what happened to it. Changes to a coin after it leaves the mint's striking chamber are considered post mint damage, or PMD, and have no premium value.

The quarter's reverse might have be struck through something, which would qualify as an error, but when the effect is that small it's not terribly valuable, maybe a few dollars.
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 Posted 04/20/2023  11:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dearborn to your friends list
Well for starters, the 1985 cent (first image) is not an error - it looks like someone crushed it with some kind of tool. you can see where the rim was deformed and metal rose up around this anomaly.
the second coin (the 1944-S cent) looks interesting, maybe part of a Rim Fin fold over or a weird Cud. need close-ups if it to know better.
the 3rd coin (the 1969 Quarter) is just a common Struck Through Grease and usually does not bring in an increased premium for it. (although there are collectors of this type of 'event)

ebay would be a good start to try to sell your 'error' coins to get a good feel for what the masses want and are looking for.

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Oh and Silvio was just sending you a welcome greeting to you to the forum here
(as I should have as well), so here it is:
to CCF!
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 Posted 04/20/2023  1:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jdoe60 to your friends list
Thank you Dearborn, I will submit close-ups of the 1944S when time permits. These are just the tip of the iceberg of what I have found. Should I just keep continuing to send pictures and if so, is this the right forum or should I use different on?
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 Posted 04/20/2023  1:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add JimmyD to your friends list
You can continue to send pictures but list each one on its
own thread as it gets confusing listing more than one at once.
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 Posted 04/20/2023  1:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dearborn to your friends list
Yes, please post more, but as Jimmy stated, one topic for each coin - it helps keep the conversation in check with no confusion.
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 Posted 04/20/2023  2:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
Damage to a coin by alteration, usually leaves the weight normal on the coin. If a coin is dipped into acid, the weight will be reduced in weight. So you might want to copy this weight/tolerance chart?
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If a coin is a lamination, the area missing will show a weight reduction. But on the cent above the coin was altered with a vise grip pliers. So this is just coin damage. A lot of damage happens on coins in circulation/or altered in a garage. These will only be face value coins. If you sell of these, you might get flack because they are just coin damage. Some coins are die events. These are from aging dies. So not all that people call errors are ones to buy or sell. They are just normal coins with aging dies/die events. So take you time here to learn what to sell. Errors is a deceptive term. To learn a lot faster, you might ask for opinions here on your own threads. Then you will get an opinion on what you really have, first before selling coins. A quick place to look in the on the top lines of the threads:
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This is just an image and won't get you to the information. But is seen on the top of the threads area.

Look for this one. I recommend looking the the last page first and then do in reverse. That way you can learn the current information a lot faster. There are 16 pages so far. To read this all would probably take months. So take your time and study on these posts that are addressed their. A lot of information and a lot of images. I'm adding sometimes daily on newer information. So enjoy and grasp the subject fully and then move on. Ask questions as a new thread topic. I'll see them faster that way. Sometimes I may miss questions on the CoopHome files. So always start a new thread and other and I may help you faster that way. A lot of subjects could already be answered on different threads that are already there. So looking forward to you next posts. (A wide variety of information are contained on those links. Coins/images/lighting/editing are also subject covered there.
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 Posted 04/20/2023  2:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list
If you want to sell your coins and GC refuse, mean No ways to go with Heritage, Sotheby's, Christies or Ken, Will or Dr. Sepp.

What you show at this point probably e-Bay is your way to go. They are others places, but there you made face with big collectors.

Other alternative the closer coins dealer near you.

Sorry to tell you but as this point, your coins are nor errors or variety so no collector look for those kind of coins. We will see the others but general speaking a coin under MS-64 if is not a big error or variety you has hard time to have a serious buyer.
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 Posted 04/20/2023  4:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cujohn to your friends list
to the CCF You came to a great site to learn what an error is and is not. Study how coins are made, then you will know if it's posable or not. If you just started out thinking you have found hundreds of errors worth selling on an auction site, hate to tell you you are wrong. I along with I would say most of us here with decades of searching only find 1 or 2 coins worth sending to a high-end auction.
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 Posted 04/20/2023  5:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BStrauss3 to your friends list
In all fairness, there's no upside to a site like GreatCollections trying to sell $5 coins.

I'm sure that what you heard as "rude" is more likely you not listening to them trying to share reality with you. With a minimum buyer's fee of $5 and shipping/handling starting at $5.50, a buyer would be paying 3x the value.

ebay only charges 13%. Either you the seller or you add it to the buyer's costs has to eat shipping too.

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 Posted 04/20/2023  6:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nickelsearcher to your friends list
to the CCF

So far we have seen no error coins worth any numismatic premium - and certainly not something a major auction house such as GC, Heritage or Stacks would care to see.

Your aspirations to acquire and sell for profit valuable errors alas has appears to run into the reality that you have collected damaged coins so far.

I'm hoping for you - so continue to post individual threads of the coins and we can help.
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 Posted 04/21/2023  12:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jdoe60 to your friends list
Thank you all for your help and direction! I will show more of what I have as I get better pics. So glad I found this site !
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 Posted 04/21/2023  1:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add User1975 to your friends list
Hello and welcome to this forum. Herritage will only accept coins for auction with a very high value. I Think that I saw somewhere that they only accept coins with a minimum value of £5000 pounds in my case because I live in England. I have a genuine error coin which is worth around £2000 but Herritage would not accept it because it didn't meet their high standards. My coin is now with Tennants auctioneers waiting to be sold. Anyway, you need to be carefull when stating coins are errors. 95% of people that think they have errors actually don't, mostly just PMD or altered in some way in a shed. It's likely that out of your 100 error coins many are not. This forum has excellent numismatics and yhey will help you on your learning curve. Be careful not to bombard this forum with error coins as it may annoy some people. Saying that just post one or two every week and read people's feedback to learn.
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 Posted 04/25/2023  3:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Jdoe60 to your friends list
I'm not sure exactly how this works but to continue topic do I go back to original and reply to the forum or just use the same forum title and do new topic? Anyway hopefully this gets to Dearborn. Here is better pics of my 1944S possible Rim Fin.
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 Posted 04/25/2023  5:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add BStrauss3 to your friends list
If it's the same topic, we prefer you continue posting (unlike say Reddit) you can put a new photo in a reply.

If it's a different topic OR a different coin, there's a preference for a new topic, unless the new coin is a DIRECT response to the same topic.

There's a bit of nuance in this as to how direct is DIRECT. "Hey, I found another one where the die break has progressed" is fine in the original topic. I have a BIE "error" from another year is probably OK if the original was about a BIE and somebody replied yep, those are common in the 50s.
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 Posted 04/25/2023  8:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silviosi to your friends list
Strauss answer very nice and educative (not offend I make him compliment or others). If you will find me rude or such do not worry, I a direct person. You like you like if not, yours opinions and finish there.

What you show as coins in no collector value. Maybe interesting for dreamers or new come to collecting.

To sell?!!?. I think e-Bay or Etsy. Here if you put, I do not think someone will offer something. A dealer near you?, also I question.

Maybe you do not understand that if it is not a rare, or very rare error or variety, in circulate condition no Collector is interest.

Hope you will find the good one. Go ahead.
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