mint errors

PCGS 1976 Jefferson nickel struck on a clad dime planchet. The coin is the weight and metal of a clad Roosevelt dime, but is struck with nickel dies. There are some cut marks in the planchet, which are pre-strike damage to the planchet (common on...

PCGS 1965 Jefferson nickel struck on a clad dime planchet. The coin is the weight and metal of a clad Roosevelt dime, but is struck with nickel dies.    The off-metal occurred when a dime planchet was fed into a press that was striking...

NGC 1957 Jefferson nickel struck on a cent planchet. The design of a nickel, but struck on the bronze planchet of a Lincoln cent. Lustrous red coppery surfaces, and slightly smaller in size makes it a dramatic off-metal. A somewhat scarcer date as we…

PCGS 1941 Jefferson nickel struck on a cent planchet. The coin is struck on a copper-alloy cent planchet, and is smaller than a normal nickel, with some of the lettering missing. Also, it is the weight of a cent at around 3.1 grams.    A fa…

PCGS 2005-D Lincoln cent broadstruck on the 1st strike, and then double-struck, with the 2nd strike 70% off-center and uniface obverse.   A very rare date for double-strikes, and almost none known for the date--estimated 2-3 known...

Flipover double-struck, with the 2nd strike 70% off-center and uniface reverse. 

PCGS 1925 Lincoln wheat cent struck on a silver dime planchet. The planchet is the silver alloy planchet intended for striking into a dime, but was instead struck with the cent dies.   Off-metal wheat cent on dime planchets are scarce as an erro…

NGC 50c 1970-D Kennedy half 40% silver, struck 5% off-center. This is the last year for 40% silver Kennedy halves, and they were only issued in mint sets. As a result, very few errors are known since the mint set issuances resulted in few errors havi…

ANACS 1974-S Lincoln cent struck 25% off-center. A scarce date for off-center strikes!   MS64 Red

PCGS 1938 wheat cent double-struck with the 2nd strike 96% off-center and uniface reverse. Scarce date.    AU50 Brown

PCGS 1980 Lincoln cent triple-struck, with the 1st strike normal, and then struck 93% and 99% off-center.  MS65 Brown 

PCGS (1917-1958) Lincoln wheat cent double-struck, with the second strike 55% off-center, and die struck on both sides. A double-strike with superb eye-appeal because the 2nd strike is nearly perfect in being about half off-center.   Tough to fi…

PCGS (1982-2008) 1c Lincoln cent flipover double-struck with the strikes 93% and 90% off-center.    MS65 Red

PCGS 1997 Lincoln cent double-struck with the 2nd strie 75% off-center and die struck both sides. Nice eye-appeal, and a great example of the error type.   MS64 Red

PCGS 1965 Lincoln cent double-struck saddle-struck, with a small hump between the strikes. Scarcer date.   MS64 Red/Brown

Lincoln cent with a high saddle-strike. Lustrous red and superbe example. Housed in an extra thick PCGS holder.   

PCGS 1996 Lincoln cent double-struck with the 2nd strike 80% off-center and uniface reverse. MS65 Red

Double-struck with both strikes off-center.  

PCGS (1982-2008) Lincoln Memorial cent double-struck, with one strike 95% off-center and the other a strike clip. The die sheared off a area of the planchet, resulting in a strike clip.   MS66 Red

PCGS 1942 wheat cent broadstruck and 7% ragged clip. Also a nice grade, MS63 Red/Brown.