Book Description

The new 2020 Lincoln Cent Error Coin contains mint doubled dies, striking errors, planchet errors, and variations. This book includes photographs of all error types. Collectors and organizations dedicated to collecting coins' regard mint striking errors as those created by the mint stamping process. Mint striking errors include: double struck (not to be confused with doubled dies), multiple struck, indents, saddle struck, off-center, brockage, broad struck, and die caps. Many coins in circulation appear doubled, but the appearance of doubling is machine doubling and not die errors. A planchet error deemed as a transitional mistake results in minting coins on planchets intended for a previous mintage. For example, in 1943, the mint changed the planchet to steel.Variations are not mint errors in the technical sense. Creating hubs and dies that are not precisely the same result in dates compared as large to small, "wide" to thin. In early U.S. coinage, there are dates of coins that have multiple numbers of variations in date size, appearance, and so forth.The author has been collecting coins for over 50 years. A passion for appraising coins for free, helping people learn the hobby, and providing information on how to best sell rare coins. In 1999, the author began to attend coin auctions and log the results. Collecting vast amounts of information led to the writing of several coin guides.