gxseries Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Is anyone insane enough to collect error coins from each country? VERY tempting but I don't know how expensive it can get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sisu Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Is anyone insane enough to collect error coins from each country? VERY tempting but I don't know how expensive it can get If I get one I keep it. And I look through my coins for such stuff (especially during the long winter months here ), but I do not go out and purchase error coins. Here is one of the first that I ever found. This was taken some years ago with a very cheap scanner. Perhaps I should retake it with my digital camera. A double struck Italian 50 lire: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 There are advantages to collecting world errors as opposed to USA only errors, price being paramount. Even British errors go for a fraction of the USA prices. I found a British 3d coin from 1943 that has a cud in the design, obviously the die was damaged. But it is not worth more than $1 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sisu Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Of course I keep all the Finnish errors that I find. Here is probably my best modern error find that I found last year which I posted in a thread some time ago: a doubled Sweden 10 kronor. I am still trying to get some official recognition from my next door neighbor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhawk Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 I have(had) a few... This Spanish peseta has some doubling. (I may have given this one out in a giveaway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhawk Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Here's a Canadian large cent with some other metal struck into it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhawk Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Here's a 1949 Canadian 5 cent with the "hearing aid" die clash... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhawk Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Italian lira with a planchet clip... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhawk Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Canadian large cent with repunched (tripled) letters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Those two Italian pieces and the GV large cent are very interesting. Canadian 1859 cents are very fun if you're looking for varieties. Plenty of stuff (1c and 5c varieties) in the 40s-60s as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted September 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Here's a Canadian large cent with some other metal struck into it... Wow now that's really an interesting error! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted September 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Do some people find some world coins are extremely difficult to find? For example, Japanese, Korean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belg_jos Posted September 13, 2006 Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 I think that some regions are really easy to find, like North & South America, India, Australia, Great Britain too. Then some that are a bit harder to find, like the rest of Europe, most of the African countries, ... And like you've stated, the very hard ones, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and even China. My general opinion about errorcoins that come from that part of the world (East Asia), are often very strange looking, as if they are made for merchants. Even some of them are clearly forged. Especially the coins with brockage look very suspicious... I collect what I can, and have some Mexican and even an Australian errorcoin in my collection. But it's really not a main collection. My errorcoins of Belgium and The Netherlands are much more important But one day, I would like to say I have most of the countries of the world in errorcoin. I do try to buy only off center strikes, because those are just the nicest (affordable) errorcoins out there. Jos from Belgium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 Not only does the 1918 Cent look great, the error is really cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stilson Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 A little die crack on this one. Maybe hard to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corina Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Try this negative scan of a 1945 Thailand 20 Satang with a die crack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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