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If you are involved in the coin market at all, you see headliness everywhere about gold and silver's record breaking price, which has indeed been remarkable. This has been the story for much of the year, and particularly in recent months, and absorbs the headlines much of the time. However, the non-precious metals coin market is also doing well. Mint error coins have been fetching strong prices much of the time, and everything from common to high end errors have been selling well in the last numbers of weeks both from our inventory, and other sources.  The coin market appears to have a strong base of collectors and dealers.

This strength in the market is partly noticeable because it is difficult to find fresh coins at fair prices without a lot of searching, reaching out to our sources, and digging through hundreds of coins to find a few that we can use. Great errors that are priced 2-3X what they are worth are easy to find, but finding the combination of fair price and nice error takes work. However, coins do keep coming in, and we are always trying to pay strong, competitive prices so that we can acquire the coins to offer to our customers. Right now, we have a number of coins off getting graded. Also, we have one more coin show this year (next week in Baltimore.) Fresh material from the show will be listed sometime the next week after we return and can process purchases from the show. 

We recently wrote an article on brodadstruck and off-center Morgan dollars for Errorscope, which is CONECA's bi-monthly publication. If you are not a member of CONECA, you should considering joining, as it is the largest mint error coin club in the U.S. It can be www.conecaonline.org. 

If you are attending the Baltimore show next week, Jon will be set up at the show with hundreds of major mint errors, including many of the coins you can find here on the website. If you are looking to buy, sell, or simply have questions about mint errors, stop by table #745, "Sullivan Numismatics."