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New Member
Canada
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As far as Elizabeth II coins go, which errors to you find worth keeping: clipped, blank, weak strikes, rotated etc? Do you keep them for their value or because of personal preference?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I keep them all! It's not about the value for me. Just the fun factor. Although clips are my favourite and they are plentiful in the E II reign.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Off metal strikes and double strikes are cool but kind of pricy any cool clip and 45 degree or more rotation.
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Moderator
 Canada
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I collect errors mainly in two themes:
1. Anything nickel dollars
2. Anything small cent mis-strikes and off-metals.
I love figuring out errors and how things happened. I tend to publish on this as well... I keep them, because of the coolness factor.
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Valued Member
Canada
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I tend to keep mine based on how they look. I have some nice clips, no chrome coins, wrong and foreign planchet strikes, die rotations and (de)lamination errors.
Basically if I like the looks of it I buy it :)
Value wisw you are looking at modern(post 2006) errors as being quite scarce. Die caps, mated error sets and wrong planchet silver dollars tend to be costliest.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
955 Posts |
Here's one I found .2006 logo/magnetic. Die chip in logo,maybe classic right leaf die crack but think it is PMD.      |
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New Member
 Canada
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Glad others are collecting die chips! I was focusing on nickels and there are quite a few of them, specially in the 60's. I remember one variety was called snake eyes because of a die chip or accumulation in both of the 6 of a 1966 nickel.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I must think a different from most... while cool to collect (if that's your thing) die chips, die cracks, streaks, filled dies etc (almost all of which fall within quality tolerances) aren't errors. they are just the natural progression of minting coins. if you need a magnifying glass to see it, it's not an error. same with die pairs, repunched letters, and other intentional anomalies. varieties yes, but still not errors. go on ebay and filter using "error"... the actual errors are about as common as "rare" coins that are actually rare. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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There seems to be no consensus on the definitions of "variety" and "error".
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Wade...  (except the magnifing glass part  ) Can. Varieties,also agree.To-may-toe/To-mah-toe at this point.  Of course we could just start splitting hair"s on the subject: The Mint said today that in "error" they released a number of 5cent die chip coins this week  Edited by Canacoins
04/03/2016 11:37 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I keep what I notice and since I don't look very closely what I notice tends to be fairly significant.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Quote:
The Mint said today that in "error"
they released a number of 5cent die chip coins
this week I wonder if they look like this one..  I call it 'old 10 chip' even though there is more.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Quote:old 10 chip  That's! definitely hard to miss  Edited by Canacoins
04/05/2016 02:33 am
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