Coin Videos

While no one likes to admit it, everyone makes mistakes. The US Mint is no exception. This short 3 minute video shows some nice examples of error coins from the Mint as put together by www.OnlinesFinest.com. There is no dialogue, just some background music as the error coins are shown.

The likelihood of finding an error coin is rare. First, some failure of man or machine has to occur at the Mint, and then the error has to make it pass quality control before it would have the chance to end up in circulation. Nonetheless, with billions of coins minted each year, it is easy to understand how some errors find their way into our pockets.

Some examples of error coins are:

• off-centers - coin struck on a blank that was not properly centered
• double strikes - coin that was not ejected from the die after being struck, resulting in a second strike
• broadstrikes -coin that is struck without the collar present, usually resulting in a coin larger than normal and without any edge design
• double denominations - struck coin that is accidentally fed into a press striking another denomination coin
• wrong planchet errors - coin struck on a planchet that was not intended for that denomination
• cud - coin that was struck with a broken die resulting in an area of the coin that is not struck with an image
• clip - coin that was struck on an incomplete planchet
• brockage - occurs when a previously struck coin fails to eject from the die and is struck against the next blank

Thanks for looking at the video and good luck on finding some error coins of your own.