When coins are manufactured, things don’t necessarily go as planned, and the results can be both very intriguing and highly collectible. The Don Bonser Collection of United States Error Coins, Part 2 is evidence of this, containing 290 examples of “Murphy’s Law” in action. This month-long auction is open now for bidding at
Heritage Auctions, and will end with a live session beginning at 5 PM CT on March 8.
Like any other manufacturing facility, the
United States Mint has quality controls, and the vast majority of mint errors never leave the Mint. One particularly notable error in this offering is a 1974-S Silver Eisenhower Dollar, struck through a foreign object. Although in 1974 the