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US Error Coin Guide 2023: Unsurpassed and Comprehensive Paperback – May 11, 2022

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Welcome to the latest version of the US Error Coin Guide presenting over 3,500 listings for all types of errors with more than 20,000 listings. Our number one selling guide.

Error coin collecting is a growing hobby and family fun. Every year this guide is updated with new and exciting finds. No other guide presents as much information about error collecting. Photos of all errors with complete descriptions validated by PCGS and NGC terminology provide collectors with information to identify the type of error.

All types of errors from striking, planchet, and dies that collectors can locate from old collections, bank rolled coins, and circulation. Many error coins circulate without detection since most are not well known.

Some errors are difficult to determine, but some great tools are available to make error detecting easier, especially for RPM errors, some of which are easy to overlook. There are eight doubled die classifications for explaining the types of doubled dies created by die creation.

Major Error Categories
Die Errors
Die errors are created from broken dies, cracked collars, hub errors, misaligned dies, doubled dies, and repunched mintmarks.
Abrasions (scratches)
Bar
BIE
Broken hub
Broken punch
Collar break
Debris in hub
Die adjustment
Die breaks
Die crack
Die cud
Die cud retained
Die gouges
Die wear
Doubled die
Filled dies
Filled letters and numbers
Finned
Mintmark
Misaligned dies
Misplaced date
Missing details
Mule
Partial collar
Tilted collar
Mint Striking Errors
Mint striking errors result from the mint stamping process.
Bonded
Broadstrike
Brockage
Canceled
Chain
Collar clash
Counter brockage
Cupped
Double denomination
Double-struck
Extended rim
Flip over
Indent
Mated Pair
Multiple Struck
Off-center
Reverse Brockage
Rotated
Saddle
Strick over
Strikethrough
Uniface
Planchet Errors
The coin blank and the blanks with upsets on edge are called planchets. A type I planchet is the coin blank itself. A type II planchet is the coin blank with the edging rolling. Planchet errors include blanks used in the minting process with cracks, clips, defective lamination, occluded gas, unplated, wrong metal, and wrong planchet.
Blank
Clipped
Defective
Foreign
Fragmented
Improperly annealed
Lamination
Lamination retained
Occluded gas
Split
Thin/Thick
Tilted
Transitional
Unplated
Woodgrain
Wrong metal
Wrong planchet
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B1C2Z52L
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (May 11, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 233 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8824781076
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.53 x 9 inches
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Stan McDonald

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I started collecting coins in 1962. My passion for collecting has continued to grow to include error coins in the 1990s. In 1962, my first coin experience was finding a 1909 Lincoln cent. I was intrigued by finding the first Lincoln cent minted, and it inspired me to collect all of the different dates and mintmarks. I joined ANACS and read everything I could about US coins.

When the silver content was removed from the dimes in 1965, collecting coins became difficult since the dimes and higher denominations were removed from circulation. By 1975, I stopped collecting, losing interest because of the lack of coin types in circulation.

In 1999, I began to attend auctions to buy the coins I needed to complete my collections. I started selling coins on eBay from auction wins but gave up in 2001 because of competition, and the ever-increasing number of sellers offering coins not up to standards ended my interest.

In 2005, I began to attend coin shows and coin auctions because I was intrigued by error coins. PCGS was the first to encapsulate error coins in 1999, and by 2005, many error coins were appearing in auctions. I purchased sample types of each known error type so I could build a reference. I want to learn everything I can about error coins, including how they occur and their values.

In 2008, I started to piece together coin error photographs at auctions. I developed knowledge of error types and descriptions of error coins to validate my findings. The amount of information I collected was immense, so I decided to write my first coin guide about error coins. By 2009, I had published my first coin guide, which was disappointing because of a lack of sales.

From 2010 through 2016, they were not worth the time and effort, but in 2017, sales doubled from 2016 with my persistence to find methods to get my books known. In 2018, I began to see the results of my efforts, with more sales than all previous years combined. Every year since then, I have added more types of error guides as sales double every year. In 2021, I was asked to write coin articles for a coin magazine. I wrote several articles in 2021 and 2022 that were published in the magazine. As of 2023, sales continue to grow with the help of the collecting community on Twitter and Pinterest.

Stan McDonald - errorcoinexpert@aol.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Light Years ahead of the industry
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2023
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Comprehensive, logically written and loaded with microscopic photos - often accompanied with an explanation of the minting process. McDonald is flying his F-35 jet and at least one primier auction house - Heritage - is back with the Montgolfier brothers and their balloon. Using McDonald's Error Book, I picked out eight coin selections and using a great TOMLOV coin microscope bought on Amazon, I sent multiple photos of these coins for auction. An excellent magazine, "Coins" lists such errors as a Buffalo Nickel with a three "S" mint marks - Heritage was not interested with this error. They focused on a book notorious for favoring major buyers with pricing and subject matter. I was told that unless obvious in a five power loupe, they were not interested. This major auction house was contacted with exact matches of error types listed by McDonald, yet the gracious, yet uninformed representative declaired, a magazine, specifically "Coins" magazine was for entertainment purposes and seemed not to understand the minting process in the mid-1800s. One coin presented of the eight laboriously submitted was the Buffalo Nickel mentioned above - clearly an error type listed in "Coins" magazine and by McDonald in his Error book. The auction representative declared this magazine was for intertainment purposes. He declared that apparent multible strikes were due to "die wobble" and not of interest. My research showed that Heritage auctioned several one dollar gold coins in the past as error coins - yet he declared that the obvious die break error I presented was part of a ring that had been damaged - the etiology of the damage far more clearly matched a broken die in every regard. So until the industry recognizes errors of the type noted in McDonald's book, the errors that are well documented in his book are quantum levels ahead of the industry and are the future of numismatics, I found it a frustrating tool in that regard.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book to have
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024
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You can learn a lot about error us coins. a great book.
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Joanne Beaumont
5.0 out of 5 stars Good info
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
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Had most of what I’m interested in.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Money errors
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2023
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There are more errors in our coinage than you know about. Depending on the coin you you could get a couple dollars or a couple thousand dollars
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Jen Mallory
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect even for a beginner
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2023
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I love this book, being a beginner at collecting, it has made it so much easier and simple to understand. I will be buying next years book.
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Sammy Patrick
3.0 out of 5 stars Better information on the internet
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2024
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Book waste a lot of space listing coins with errors but provides little info about errors and causes of errors. Better information on the internet that describes almost every possible error with examples.
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Vermontview
5.0 out of 5 stars Yo be the correct item
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023
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As described makes for some good knowledge as to what to look for in error coins
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Laura McLeod
5.0 out of 5 stars The Error Experts!!!
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2023
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This is the BEST book I had no idea existed!!! After spending years looking up numerous sites to check for errors/varieties and then trying to compare the data I was ECSTATIC to learn of this amazing book!!! It truly has anything and everything I’ve questioned or needed answers about and even better, it helped me to understand the different types of errors with plenty of pictures of each one after it’s description. And no fluff!!! Love it!
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