Extensive online resource for error coin information

by D&G on October 10, 2008

A great resource for error coin collectors is minterrornews.com. This site is the online version of a print magazine dedicated to mint error-related information. Mike Byers is the publisher and editor of this publication. According to the site's about us page, Mike has been a professional numinsmatist since 1978 and is the largest dealer of the world's rarest mint error coins.

Mint Error News delivers many great features for the error coin collector, including:

  • An error coin category glossary illustrated with photo examples
  • A helpful pricing guide that provides compiled by the top major error coin dealers

The site is a highly informative resource on error coins. Additionally, Mint Error Coin News provides links to many of the major collectors as well as extensive article base.

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david October 11, 2008 at 5:00 pm

i have a nickel with a quarter stamp on it. what do you value it as ?

D&G October 12, 2008 at 5:35 pm

Hi David,

Sounds like an interesting coin you have. How did you come by it? What you’re describing is a Wrong Planchet error coin. A search at Mint Error News’ price guide shows a number of Quarters on Nickel planchets. The values seem to range from $100 to $750.

cw March 1, 2009 at 8:28 pm

I have a 1943 mercury dime with a wheat penny back. there are ridges from the dime edge around part of the penny so I cant see how it could have been spliced together. Only the rim of the penny is missing and the words run perfectly along the edge. I want to know more about it.

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