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Lincoln Cent Error Coin Guide 2026: The Most Accurate and Credible Error Coin Guide Available
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Series: Error Coin Guides by Stan McDonald
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ISBN13: 9798287310882
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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Twitter: Stan McDonald@coinerrorguide
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Welcome to the latest version of the Lincoln Cent Error Coin Guide, presenting over 1,000 listings for all types of errors with more than 7,500 listings. Error coin collecting is a growing hobby and family fun. Every year this guide is updated with new and exciting finds. No other guide presents as much information about error collecting. Photos of all errors with complete descriptions validated by PCGS and NGC terminology provide collectors with information to identify the type of error. A chapter is dedicated to presenting all known Lincoln cent DDO/DDR and RPM errors since 1909 with photos. All types of errors from striking, planchet, and dies that collectors can locate from old collections, bankrolled coins, and circulation. Many error coins circulate without detection since most are not well known. Some errors are difficult to determine, but some great tools are available to make error detection easier, especially RPM errors. Some of which are easy to overlook. There are eight doubled die classifications for explaining the types of doubled dies created by die creation. Major Error Categories
Twitter: Stan McDonald@coinerrorguide
Pinterest: pinterest.com/ERRORCOINGUIDE
Welcome to the latest version of the Lincoln Cent Error Coin Guide, presenting over 1,000 listings for all types of errors with more than 7,500 listings. Error coin collecting is a growing hobby and family fun. Every year this guide is updated with new and exciting finds. No other guide presents as much information about error collecting. Photos of all errors with complete descriptions validated by PCGS and NGC terminology provide collectors with information to identify the type of error. A chapter is dedicated to presenting all known Lincoln cent DDO/DDR and RPM errors since 1909 with photos. All types of errors from striking, planchet, and dies that collectors can locate from old collections, bankrolled coins, and circulation. Many error coins circulate without detection since most are not well known. Some errors are difficult to determine, but some great tools are available to make error detection easier, especially RPM errors. Some of which are easy to overlook. There are eight doubled die classifications for explaining the types of doubled dies created by die creation. Major Error Categories
Die Errors
Die errors are created from broken dies, cracked collars, hub errors, misaligned dies, doubled dies, and repunched mintmarks.
Abrasions (scratches)
Bar
BIE
Broken hub
Broken punch
Collar break
Debris in hub
Die adjustment
Die breaks
Die crack
Die cud
Die cud retained
Die gouges
Die wear
Doubled die
Filled dies
Filled letters and numbers
Finned
Mintmark
Misaligned dies
Misplaced date
Missing details
Mule
Partial collar
Tilted collar Mint Striking Errors
Mint striking errors result from the mint stamping process.
Bonded
Broadstrike
Brockage
Canceled
Chain
Collar clash
Counter brockage
Cupped
Double denomination
Double-struck
Extended rim
Flip over
Indent
Mated Pair
Multiple Struck
Off-center
Reverse Brockage
Rotated
Saddle
Strick over
Strikethrough
Uniface Planchet Errors
The coin blank and the blanks with upsets on edge are called planchets. A type I planchet is the coin blank itself. A type II planchet is the coin blank with the edging rolling Planchet errors include blanks used in the minting process with cracks, clips, defective lamination, occluded gas, unplated, wrong metal, and wrong planchet.
Blank
Clipped
Defective
Foreign
Fragmented
Improperly annealed
Lamination
Lamination retained
Occluded gas
Split
Thin/Thick
Tilted
Transitional
Unplated
Woodgrain
Wrong metal
Wrong planchet
Die errors are created from broken dies, cracked collars, hub errors, misaligned dies, doubled dies, and repunched mintmarks.
Abrasions (scratches)
Bar
BIE
Broken hub
Broken punch
Collar break
Debris in hub
Die adjustment
Die breaks
Die crack
Die cud
Die cud retained
Die gouges
Die wear
Doubled die
Filled dies
Filled letters and numbers
Finned
Mintmark
Misaligned dies
Misplaced date
Missing details
Mule
Partial collar
Tilted collar Mint Striking Errors
Mint striking errors result from the mint stamping process.
Bonded
Broadstrike
Brockage
Canceled
Chain
Collar clash
Counter brockage
Cupped
Double denomination
Double-struck
Extended rim
Flip over
Indent
Mated Pair
Multiple Struck
Off-center
Reverse Brockage
Rotated
Saddle
Strick over
Strikethrough
Uniface Planchet Errors
The coin blank and the blanks with upsets on edge are called planchets. A type I planchet is the coin blank itself. A type II planchet is the coin blank with the edging rolling Planchet errors include blanks used in the minting process with cracks, clips, defective lamination, occluded gas, unplated, wrong metal, and wrong planchet.
Blank
Clipped
Defective
Foreign
Fragmented
Improperly annealed
Lamination
Lamination retained
Occluded gas
Split
Thin/Thick
Tilted
Transitional
Unplated
Woodgrain
Wrong metal
Wrong planchet
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