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I have always like collecting modern error coins. Modern coins are defined by many numismatists as coins dated from 1965 to present.
I began collecting error coins around the year 2000. At that time, the mint was producing vast mintages and a large amount of errors coins were escaping the mint. I became fascinated with the endless major errors you could buy at the time at a very reasonable price. I got used to viewing only mint state error coins. Occasionally, a classic major error coin would come available, but usually it would be circulated, sometimes damaged and most had poor eye appeal.
I found the pricing on classic error coins to be very high. I could get so much more with modern error coinage. I would buy dramatic mint state error coins for a fraction of the price of a similar classic error coin. Modern error coins also offer errors that would be impossible on classic coins such as cladding and plating errors. If you want a dramatic mint state error coin collection at an affordable price, you may want to consider modern mint error coins.
What I like about modern mint error coins is that you can extreme examples, like the error below, at reasonable prices.
1993 PCGS MS64/63 Mated Pair Double Struck
Nickel Mint Error
Wow Rare 2 Coin Set
A mated pair error on classic coinage would be extremely expensive. Modern error coins are a way of getting very rare error type coins at a good price.
2005 NGC MS64 Missing Clad Layer
California Quarter Mint Error
Missing clad layer errors can only be found on modern coins. Bright red copper contrasts nicely with obverse nickel clad layer.
1980 NGC MS66 Lincoln Cent Struck On Struck Dime
Double Denomination Mint Error
Double denomination errors will always be expensive. This one has amazing eye appeal and would be considerable less than an equally high end double denomination error on a classic coin.
PCGS MS64 Double Struck 2nd 70% Off Center
Susan B Anthony Dollar Mint Error
Here's a nice example of a major double struck error on a modern coin. There are hundreds of coin designs only available on modern coinage.
NGC Struck Off Center On Outer Clad Layer
Washington Quarter Mint Error
This bizarre multi error could only occur on modern coinage.
2021 NGC MS65 RD Defective Plating
Shield Cent Mint Error
Here is another error that can only happen with modern coinage.
1965 PCGS MS64 Incomplete Clip And Double Clipped Planchet
Quarter Mint Error
This triple error coin is extremely rare and found on a modern coin. I have never seen this type of error on a classic coin.
1998 PCGS MS64 Huge Mushroom Broadstruck Brockage
Nickel Mint Error
Modern coins offer a way to get big bold error coins like the one below at a reasonable price.
1994 ANACS MS63 Bonded Clad Layer
Quarter Mint Error 3 Clad Layers
Only Known
This remarkable coin has 3 clad layers and is only possible on modern coinage.
