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One of the more curious error coins we recently purchased at the Portland ANA National Money Show is a PCGS 1943-S steel cent with it’s reverse zinc coating having detached from the steel cent’s reverse. The zinc detached coating is a solid piece of metal, and weighs an incredible 0.0005 grains. It is struck normally on one side, and the other is an incuse mirror brockage of the reverse desi …

Coin Show Report Portland ANA National Money Show March 5-7, 2015 “The coin market is slow.”  That was the frequent comment given by non-error dealers at the show. There isn’t as much dealer-to-dealer activity (wholesale business) going on, and the retail market is generally slow were what most dealers we talked to were saying. Apparently the economy, an abundance of majo …

The FUN show in Orlando, Florida is over, and we are back with over $30,000 in fresh errors purchased at FUN, and when combined with a mixture of other collections recently purchased this month, we have well over $60,000 in fresh new errors for your perusal! Some of the nicest coins include an MS-65 buffalo nickel on cent planchet, a number of dual-date double-denominations, and some very nice off …

FUN Show 2015 January 8th-11th, 2015 are the dates for the upcoming FUN Coin Show in Orlando, Florida. Probably a tie with the summer ANA Convention for “Best show of the year”, this is a must-attend event for error coin collectors. There will be most if not all of the full-time error coin dealers there set-up at the show, as well as over 500 “non-error” dealers. A major auction is held …

Above: The inner harbor of Baltimore, near the Convention Center where the show was held. It has been a little over a week since we got back from attending the Baltimore Whitman Coin Show, held Oct 30th-Nov 2nd in Baltimore, Maryland. There was a lot happening at the show, as is to be expected when you have a coin show consisting of a major auction held by Stacks/Bowers, 500 t …

 We have been very busy adding inventory to this website, and have finally got all our inventory up for sale so that there are now well over 750 error coins on the site! It has taken quite a long time to get everything organized, photographed, priced and list on the site, and we are very pleased with the results. The coins are organized by date and denomination. Click on any error category an …

1986 Partial Collar ASE $1 Bullion Coin: https://sullivannumismatics.com/productdisplay/pcgs-1986-1-ase-partial-collar-strike-ms-67 We just uploaded an interesting video (click here to watch it: https://sullivannumismatics.com/information/videos/minting-gold-silver-eagles-west-point )on minting gold and silver bullion at the West Point Mint. This is interesting to watch since it gi …

It has taken a lot of work, but the website is up an running as of a few weeks ago, and we are very excited about it! It has been a project which has been a long-time in the completing, partly due to not always been the most important project on our plate, and also because websites just take a long time to get done. Between revisions and new features, what starts as a "simple project" turns …