Indian Error Cents

Very nice Rob. Must be years and years of collecting.

Very nice collection. Your not set up for PM's. PM me.

Thanks for the comments. It'll be a lifelong goal to get the whole collection of Indians with errors on them, and I'm happy to share the pictures of what I do have.

I pick up one or two a year. I seem to have most of the common Indian dates for errors so half of my recent acquisitions involve upgrades - like upgrading a partial collar or even broadstruck to an off center. However, I do have an 1889 snow-3 that is broadstruck AND an 1889 off center. The broadstruck one is much much rarer than the off center, so I might have to get rid of the off center some day ... My favorite in my collection is the 1879 off center. Any date in the 1870's that is off center and problem-free is a real gem. The planchets they used in the 1870's were of poor quality so there is a lot of corrosion on them today, and related to the planchet issues from that decade, planchet laminations on these dates are relatively common.

I should be set up for emails thru the site now (although I get an error when I try to send one out) - Razorear, try to send me one?

You have an enviable set of Indians there. Indian cents are my passion. Thank you for sharing them with us.''
God Bless, Bill S.

haha, I've got two remarkable additions that I need to upload. One is a XF 1866/66 that is broadstruck (can you say rare?) and the other is an 1878 with a really cool lamination over the date. I am really hoping for a third in a another week ... I'll upload the pix then.

It's a really fun collection, even though I'm not sure I'll ever get a full date set of errors. I've only ever seen three errors on the 1877. One is a really small insignificant rim clip (rather not interested in it), one is a solid VF coin with the obverse struck thru grease (not interested in it), and the other is an MS specimen struck on a foreign silver planchet (no way I'll ever be able to afford that one!). I believe the other Indians from the 1870's will show up in time - that is by far the hardest decade. The second hardest decade is the 1880's. The 1860's are slightly less rare but command high prices because the age and generally low mintages. The 1890's and 1900's are encountered most frequently (due to mintage).

I am trying to 'gather all the IHC's I can, w/o regasrd to grade, or problem-free, etc, primarily to have the full date collection with all the errors/varieties for each date. This may be a problem, because not alll are recognized as such. PCGS only recognizes the "CherryPickers' listings of IHC varieties. It does NOT cover all those known. Sufficient to say that no t all TPG's are the same. Nor will my collection, (if completed) will be the same as the others, including PCGS. IMHO.
Dick

WOW- that is a niiiice collection.