mint errors

PCGS 1925 peace dollar with a struck in and retained wire bristle. The wire is at the 12 o'clock position on the coin's obverse.    Peace dollars are rare with struck in and retained wire. Rare error type on peace dollars--very few known...

PCGS 2016 silver American eagle struck thru retained plastic obverse. The plastic threads are retained throughout portions of the struck thru area.   What the threads came from in the Mint is unknown, but it may have been a cloth of some kind, o…

PCGS 1921-D Morgan dollar with a blowhole defective planchet. The coin has a defective area in the center of the coin, with two small pinholes in the center of the defective area. When the coin is held up to an intense light source, there are two...

PCGS 1972 Kennedy half with an incomplete clip across the obverse from K-7 to K-10, and visible also on the reverse. Additionally, the coin has a 2% curved clip at K-6.    Incomplete clips are very scarce on Kennedy halves!   AU55 &nbs…

PCGS 1920-D wheat cent struck 20% off-center. A scarce date/mint for off-center wheat cents. VF20 

PCGS 1999-S silver Roosevelt dime heavy clashed dies obverse and reverse. The coin shows strong clash marks on the obverse.   Although not noted on the holder, it is a silver dime, and so the coin originally likely came from a silver proof set. …

NGC 1892-O Barber quarter struck 10% off-center. Off-center Barber quarters are rare, and few are known. This is about as far off-center as they come, with only a very few known struck further off-center.   An estimated 20-30 known off-center Ba…

PCGS 1976-D Washington quarter struck on a copper cent planchet. The bicentennial quarter is struck on the planchet intended for a Lincoln cent, which is a much smaller planchet at 3.1 grams, and also with a smaller diameter. It is copper, which crea…

PCGS 1964 Kennedy half struck 65% off-center at K-7. The coin is struck on a 90% silver planchet, which is how the date can be determined (1964 are the only 90% silver Kennedy halves.)    A major off-center, with a little over half the plan…

PCGS 1945 Lincoln wheat cent elliptical clip, with the coin having an oval shape. MS64 Brown Ex-Fred Weinberg Collection 

NGC $1 SBA dollar T-2 planchet, and with the correct weight of 8.1 grams. The planchet has proof surfaces, with the distinctive tumbling marks and slightly glimmering surfaces on the planchet.  SBA dollar proof planchets are rare.  Proof&nb…

PCGS proof clad Washington quarter. The coin also has an 8% straight clip. In the clip is the characteristic slightly ragged cut marks which are sometimes seen on straight clips.   Proof quarter planchets are very scarce, and are one of the scar…

Elliptical clip, with the coin having an oval shape.  MS63 Ex-Fred Weinberg Collection 

Elliptical clip, with the coin having an oval shape.  MS66 Ex-Fred Weinberg Collection 

PCGS clad 50c half dollar T-2 planchet. The planchet is clad, and has raised rims, making it a type-2. We have a few of these clad 50c planchets in stock--the buyer will receive one at random. All are PCGS MS60 or higher grade.  

NGC 1901 Luxembourg 10c deep obverse die cap. The coin stuck to the hammer (reverse) die and was struck into incoming planchets, causing the coin to wrap around the die's neck and creating a die cap.   A dramatic major mint error, and on a count…

PCGS 1927 Belgium 10c struck with an off-center hole.  AU55

PCGS 1990 Silver eagle struck thru numerous retained wires on the obverse. There are many small, thin wire fragments scattered across the coin's obverse, and especially in the 11 o'clock area.   Scarce with retained wire, and especially with thi…

PCGS 2007-S silver proof Utah quarter struck on an elliptical clipped planchet, and with double indents on the obverse side.   Elliptical clips are one of the few major errors found on state quarter errors, although they are very scarce. This co…