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error coin

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noun

Numismatics.

  1. a coin showing evidence of a mistake in its manufacture.

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"This is the most famous error coin in American numismatics and that’s what makes this so exciting: No one really knows what it’s going to sell for," Miller said in comments obtained by SWNS.

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