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A reader of Mint Error News wanted to share his collection of rare American Eagle major mint errors.
1986 Sand Disk Strike Through Reverse
Highest Grade Known, Less than 8 exist.
No Date Reverse Emery Sanding Disk
Highest Grade Known, Less than 20 exist.
1986 Obverse Emery Sanding Disk
Highest Grade Known, Less than 20 exist.
1986 Sand Disk Strike Through Obverse
Highest Grade Known, Less than 8 exist.
1987 Emery Sanding Disk Obverse
Only one to exist with retained silver.
1987 Emery Sanding Disk Obverse
Highest Grade Known to Exist in 1987.
1986 Silver Eagle with Retained Emery Disk, Only One in that Exists.
Emery was struck on obverse first then reverse.
You can see the outline of Lady Liberty and “In God We Trust” outlines.
1986 $50 Gold Eagle Broadstruck, the only one to exist.
2014 $5 Gold Eagle Narrow Reed Obverse Struck Through
Consecutive Error and Number Pair.
1998 Silver Eagle Wrong Planchet Error, the only one to exist.
The mintage of this platinum eagle is just around 2,000.
To find a high grade error, yet alone a retained one (most likely gold) is epic.