Commonly found mint errors you will encounter coin searching

hey there YouTube coin community this is Dustin with coin-op today we are going to be going over commonly found Mint errors that you will encounter while your coin searching now this idea for this video came from cool coins 2014 who suggested do us videos that are things that you will encounter more commonly so this one's on Mint errors though now some of these have very little premium if any at all and some of them actually do have some nice premium so that way you will know the difference between some mint errors worth money and some that are not okay we are going to dive right on into some commonly found Mint errors now in this video we are only going to be discussing the more common ones that you're going to come across while your coin searching now hopefully while your coin searching you're lucky enough to find one of the rarer mint errors now there are many different types of mint errors so we will not be discussing the rarer ones such as like a bonded error or struck on foreign planchet we won't be discussing those kind of things in this video I do have other videos up on various mint errors and I will be producing more in the future so we are going to start with now here we are taking a look at some dye cracks dye cracks are actually caused by a shallow crack in the dye the crack creates a thin recess in the dye surface and during the strike the planchette metal fills in the recess as you're out searching you will come across many many many many many many dye cracks they are common on all US coins some more than others like with the Lincoln cents you're going to find them a lot more and typically they do not add add any extra value or premium some people collect them most do not I personally do not they don't really add any extra value you're going to see this quite a bit now while minting the mint tends to use the dyes until they are unusable and of course that saves them money but a lot of times as the dye wears out eventually the dye will totally break which gives you what's called a shattered dye which is massive dye cracks all over the coin I have some images here from diamonds that are shattered dyes now these dye cracks can be worth some very nice money it all depends on value on how dramatic the shattered dye is I mean if it's a just just died cracks and machinist and stuff everywhere on the coin it's going to fetch really nice money 50 to $100 if it's just clearly a shattered eye but not very extensive and massive and you'd be looking at 20 to 40 bucks now with the overworking of dies we're going to move on to die chips or die breaks first of all let me explain something to you the difference between a die break and a cut really isn't much a cut actually is a die break so as a die chip the difference is a cut is a die break that is on the rim so if the die break is along the rim then it's a cut error if it's not then it's just listed as a die break now you're going to see a lot with the weak sense die chips on lots of the coins they will show up as what's known as buy errors which will be the B and E and Liberty will have what looks like an eye in between it it's actually a die chip they have a little bit of value and uncirculated examples you can fetch five or ten dollars so some of the die chips can be worth money sometimes they'll be on the date they could be actually be anywhere on the coin now your larger dive brakes can fetch some really nice money some of them it's just really massively sale and Abraham Lincoln's head or something like that well you'll be looking at five or ten bucks maybe more in an uncirculated example now cut errors where they're the very large breaks right along the rim or rim cogs or whatever you want to call them they can bring in some very nice money I've seen some very large examples go for sixty to eighty dollars and typically though you see them trading between twenty and fifty bucks but I've seen some of them go up to upwards of a hundred dollars so always keep your eye out you will come across cut errors if you point a search constantly they turn up all the time just keep in mind what you are looking at is the very end stage of the die before it's kaput once those cut error start showing up on the coin the mint pulls the those dyes and may quit using them okay now we are taking a look at gas bubbles gas bubbles you're going to see on the Lincoln Cent series from 1982 until current the reason for this is they switched from the copper brass planchette in 1982 to the zinc that is copper plated now a lot of times the zinc underneath the plating will start to rot when it does that it will create gas and the gas bubbles well the gas will show us bubbles throughout the surface of the coin sometimes it's just fine little bubbles sometimes it can even mimic like a repost mintmark or even show is what would appear to be is doubling around some of the letters it's not it's gas bubbles now these gas bubbles over time will eventually break open and then the coin is going to begin to rot out and become quite ugly and gross looking gas bubbles are very very common they do not add any extra premium or value now I have seen a couple really extreme cases trade for a few dollars but that's very very rare so you will see this when your coin searching just keep in mind it is gas bubbles it's it technically is a minting error so that's why I have it in this video but once again it does not add much of a premium if any at all now we are taking a look at dye deterioration what dye deterioration is is when the dye is that the late stage is just about kaput it is worn out and it will deteriorate just as it sounds dye deterioration is a dye that has deteriorated a lot of times it will give the appearance of a doubled image especially on 2015 and 2016 dimes for whatever reason you are going to see this a lot on them you will also see this on a lot of nickels it's very common on like the 1999 nickels and a lot of the 2000s you will see it quite a bit die deterioration does not add any extra value or premium it will mimic the appearance of being a double dive when it is not it is not a double die it does not add any extra value it is simply caused by an overworked dye we are currently looking at a coin that was struck through Greece you are going to see this constantly while your coin searching you can find this on every denomination of US coin that is minted what this is is a little bit of grease gets on the died during the minting process and while it strikes coins it will cause some design loss you'll see part of the date missing or part of like Liberty on one of the Lincoln cents missing or part of the motto missing it can affect anywhere on the coin both obverse and reverse typically they don't really hold much premium sometimes more extreme cases where there's lots of design elements missing I've seen some of these coins trade for a few dollars now none circulate examples I've seen them trade five ten bucks for some really extreme examples so there can be a little bit of premium there I myself actually hold on to every single one of them that I find even if it's really minor so some people collect them some don't okay we are going to move on to a lamination flaw a lamination is a planchette defect caused when a portion of the planchette metal separates from itself due to impurities or internal stress lamination flaws occur when foreign material or gas gets trapped within the planchette metals as they are being formed they can be very minor or very major I personally like lamination flaws lamination errors whatever you want to call them you can find them on all denominations coins some more so than others you'll see them a lot in the Lincoln Cent series and a whole lot on the Jefferson nickel wartime nickels for whatever reason just seems like the wartime nickels have lots of lamination flaws you can also find quite a bit of them on buffalo nickels if you search buffalo nickels a sum lamination flaws do carry a premium I personally seen Lincoln cents trade anywhere between five to twenty dollars apiece depending on how dramatic the lamination peel is if the peel is still attached to the coin that increases value now some of the coins like Morgan Dollars if you find one with a lamination peel can add quite a substantial amount of premium so when you do see lamination peels or lamination flaws I do suggest you put them aside put them in a two by two older and never know yours could be worth a lot of money okay in this segment we're going to start first with blanks or blank Blanchett's whichever you choose to call them simply put all that it is is a coin that was not struck by the die most of the time it will have the ring or lip sometimes it won't even have that now the next two images you are looking at were submitted by one of our viewers Carlos see submitted these to my email he has some side-by-sides with blanks next to struck coins so that you can actually see the difference between the two blanks do have a little bit of premium typically they trade for three to five dollars apiece now some blanks will trade higher say for like Eisenhower blanks or Morgan dollar blanks something that's just much more scarce or rare we'll have much more of a premium obviously now we are looking at clipped planche it's what a clipped planche it is is sometimes when the metal is being rolled out and the blanks are being cut out of the metal it will not feed all the way through and well it'll strike right through and cut the coin out of a section that's already been cut leaving you know a section missing from the coin and it's a clip the planchette clipped Blanchett's do have a premium typically it's between three to ten dollars depending on the condition of the coin in which denomination it is it can have a premium now we are looking at off centers an off center coin was a coin that was struck without it's retaining collar allowing it to be struck off center hence the name now an off center that has the date showing typically will sell for more money than one without the date an off center that is nicely off-center typically trades for three to five dollars with no date and anywhere between five to twenty dollars for one with a date depending on condition and how severe the off center is now you will see a lot of them that are barely off-center or off-center just a tiny little bit that is actually considered in the acceptable minting realms and does not carry a premium it needs to be off-center by at least 15 degrees in my opinion for it to even hold any kind of a small premium well we hope you enjoyed this video we also hope that this video helps you along your path with coin searching especially when you come across something that looks to you like it might be a Mint error if you have not done so already go ahead and subscribe to our Channel hit the like button if you enjoyed this video and stay tuned for more we have a lot more that is in production a lot more 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Keywords: mint, mint error, error coin, coin, coin searching, coin searcher, doubled die, lamination, clipped planchet, die deterioration, gas bubbles, struck through grease, off center, die chip, bie error, blank, blank planchet, zink rot, coin sercher, dustin morgan, robert lawson

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Length: 14min 14sec (854 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 25 2016