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Great Britain 1988 One Penny Faulty Planchet Error

As originally published in Australasian Coin and Banknote Magazine in September 2022. What Went Wrong -error coins that escaped the Mint We’re going to discuss an error coin this month that originated from an overseas mint. A mint that, in

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How to Determine a Genuine Clipped Coin Error

We’ve looked at all the different types of clips before and how they’ve occured but how can you really tell if you have a genuine clip or not? Often it is difficult to tell if a clip is a genuine

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How to Determine if a Clipped Planchet Error is Real

This article appeared in June 2012 Australasian Coin and Banknote Magazine written by the team at the Australian Coin Collecting Blog and is reproduced here for your viewing pleasure. One of the most common Australian pre-decimal errors that you’ll find

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How to Spot a Real 2000 $1 / 10c Mule

Let’s play a game. We’ll call it Spot’a’Mule. The aim of the game is to spot real Year 2000 $1 / 10c mule coins. Winners get to not waste their money on coins worth only their face value. Losers get

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Hub Doubled 1943m Threepence Variety

As published in the Australasian Coin and Banknote Magazine June 2015 by the Australian Coin Collecting Blog. Subscribe here. Hub Doubling – What is it? “Hubbing” is the process in coin manufacturing where hardened positive image working hubs are pressed

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Impressive Error Coins For Sale on eBay this Week

If you haven’t checked out eBay for a while then you’re missing some impressive and quality error coins currently selling on that great online garage sale. Even if you’re just a window shopper you should still take a look as

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Indent Error with Partial Brockage 50c

This indent coin error has occurred when the previously struck 50c failed to exit the press cleanly and was jammed against the new blank when it was struck. This has left the impression and incuse (brockage) imprint of the coin

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It’s Great to Find Old Friends!

There was a coin show in our home town of Adelaide recently and we were lucky enough to find two old friends while we were there. By friends we mean coins of course. The first was a slightly crusty dark

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New Zealand 2004 10c/$1 Mule

New Zealand variety collectors have been amassing the 2004 10 cent with a peculiar double rim thinking it was more simply a coin with a misaligned obverse die (MAD). With more thought and some measurements taken it’s been discovered that

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New Zealand Split Planchet 50 Cent Coin Errors

As a collector of error coins in particular errors of Australian coins there’s one type of error that constantly eludes me. This article features 2 different, but very similar New Zealand 50c coins of this error type. This coin error

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