mint errors

CACG 1974-D dollar double-struck 2nd strike 96% off-center and die struck both sides.   MS64

PCGS 1922 peace dollar struck thru rope reverse. The coin shows 4 "strands" of the rope which stick out in all direction, with the thick, core part of the rope visible from 2 o'clock toward the center of the coin. There are little hairs from the rope…

PCGS 1904-O Morgan dollar 35 degree rotated dies, with an obvious rotation on the reverse.    MS61 with lustrous surfaces. 

NGC 1968-D Kennedy half struck 80% off-center on clad quarter blank. The coin weighs 5.6 grams, is the metal and planchet size intended for a Washington quarter. The blank was fed into a Kennedy half dollar press and struck 80% off-center. Remarkably…

ANACS 1916 Barber dime with clip at K-1. The coin weighs 2.52 grams. A high grade example.   The holder says "curved clip" but we cannot tell what type of clip it is.   AU58

NGC 1958-D Jefferson nickel late stage die cap strike. A scarce date.   AU58

PCGS 1951-D Jefferson nickel large 17% curved clip at K-7. The clip is large for an early date Jefferson nickel, with clips this large being very scarce for this date.   MS64

PCGS 1974-D Jefferson nickel improperly annealed, with copper on the obverse and reverse.    MS63 lustrous with some minor spots obverse. 

PCGS 1974-D Jefferson nickel improperly annealed, with copper on the obverse and reverse.   MS63 lustrous. 

PCGS 1863 Indian cent with a piece of rolled in, retained wood obverse. The wood can be clearly seen with a loupe, and is stuck in the metal of the coin, with a rough, defective area in the metal where the piece of wood was rolled into the planchet's…

ANACS 1865 Indian cent struck 15% off-center. The coin is an early date indian cent off-center. We would call it  5% off-center.   AG3

PCGS 2003-P Arkansas quarter double-denomination, struck on a 2003-P Roosevelt dime. The coin shows the designs of both a dime and a quarter, with the dime's design visible under the quarter's. Some of the design can be seen from the dime on both the…

PCGS 1969-D Roosevelt dime split die obverse and very late stage die cap strike. AU50

1989 1c Lincoln Cent 25% Indent and Broadstruck PCGS MS65 Red

PCGS 1921-S Morgan dollar broadstruck. The coin is struck mostly out of collar (just minor reeding.) The error occurred when a planchet was not struck fully in the collar, and so expanded beyond its normal diameter and is missing almost all the reedi…

PCGS 2022-P Wilma Mankiller quarter with a retained cud obverse at 11-12 o'clock, and with just a small die crack on the reverse where the "split die" later develops on later die states of this cud/split die error. A popular cud!   MS62

PCGS 1976-S proof Jefferson nickel cud die break obverse. The cud is visible at 5 o'clock. Proof cuds are scarce because great care is generally taken to insure pristine quality coins. Any die breaks or cuds would be a reason to retire the die for mo…

PCGS 1980-P Jefferson nickel off-metal struck on a 1c planchet. The coin is struck on the copper planchet intended for striking into a Lincoln cent, and is the weight and metal of a cent as a result. It is smaller than a normal nickel, with some of t…

PCGS 19xx Jefferson nickel indented by a Roosevelt dime planchet. The indent is close to a dime size, with a slightly larger size because, when it was struck, it expanded slightly in size.   The error occurred when a dime planchet was fed into t…

PCGS 1892 Indian cent broadstruck. The coin was struck out of collar, and so it much larger in size than a normal cent. A scarce date.   G4