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Edited by Errorcoins
01/11/2007 2:26 pm
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Valued Member
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Nice coins. I like the way he exhibits his coins. No doubt on what your buying.
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You're better qualified to judge the price than I, but there's no doubt as to the quality of the seller. You realize what you're doing to me, right? I'm stretched thin enough with what I'm collecting now....  |
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Superdave...me lol .... it's you guys.....
I was simply into errors, now I'm into a typeset book, modern commemoratives, old commemoratives, sac album for my daughter, and the type book has interested me in 200 year old us coinages...oh great!!!!!
Yeah, it's a very good deal...these are modern errors struck after 2001, very rare..look around you would find many.
Edited by Errorcoins
01/11/2007 3:57 pm
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Yeah, I've heard that the error rate has dropped dramatically since the turn of the century. I just wish they weren't such cool coins....
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Pillar of the Community
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The number of errors has dropped dramatically for two reasons:
I) the mint has developed better quality control
and 2) they are shipping in giant bags, so the errors that do get out are being grabbed by the armored trucking companies and sold to insiders.
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Originally posted by TreasHunt
2) they are shipping in giant bags, so the errors that do get out are being grabbed by the armored trucking companies and sold to insiders.
the armored truck companies are suppose to send the errors back to the mint in order to keep their contract. This silliness by the mint has driven up the prices on all errors. Now minor errors like extra leafs, spears or whatever have become major errors because there really are no NEW Major errors, how sad. |
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"the armored truck companies are suppose to send the errors back to the mint in order to keep their contract."
I never heard this before, if true it stinks.
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quote:
Originally posted by TreasHunt
The number of errors has dropped dramatically for two reasons:
I) the mint has developed better quality control
and 2) they are shipping in giant bags, so the errors that do get out are being grabbed by the armored trucking companies and sold to insiders.
Does this mean people selling these error coins like Fred W. has insiders in the armored trucking companies selling him these coins ? Most these coins can't be found by the general public. |
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I am under the impression that there are some individuals who must have someone inside. It seems that when you look at ebay and other places, that only certain individuals have the really good errors. It is as if someone could be getting paid to hold back the errors? It is also weird that almost all the errors are from the Philly mint, whats up with that? Do they just not have good employees at that mint or what? |
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As I understand it, there use to be a lot of insiders that had connections to the rolling compaines. But after 2001 most of the major errors dried up. Plus the machines won't catch the speared or double die type errors. I think now The major error dealers buy their inventory from individuals, estates, auctions. etc. The Denver Mint makes errors as well, just not as many as the P mint.
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I just finished looking at all he had to offer. I can see where the cent that is really bad came in a bag but wondered , I guess he has people that are selling this to him also?
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