Image © Ken Potter 2013 / Coin courtesy of Terry Thomas

February 23, 2013—I attended the 55th Suburban Detroit Coin Show Jan. 24-26, in Livonia, MI where I represented CONECA, offered free error-variety coin examination services and shot photos of some of the coins that came in. This year there where so many coins that I decided to narrow my semi-annual article on this show down to the one coin for each day that I felt were the most unusual.

I included a really nice 197? cent struck on a spectacular horizontally split planchet (submitted by our own Al Raddi), an Off Center 1922 Belgium (Fr. Leg) 50 centimes that was found in a “junk box” and a very rare 1977 Roosevelt dime with a predominantly copper reverse that was rolled to proper thickness. More photos of his finds can be seen in the the hard-copy version of Numismatic News. See the Numismaster.com article HERE.