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1983-D Penny Error?

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 Posted 12/30/2009  7:43 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tumbleweedtrumpet to your friends list
Between the M and E in america, I see something.
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 Posted 12/30/2009  7:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lftbolol to your friends list
sorry again...


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 Posted 12/30/2009  8:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Saruma to your friends list
lftbolol, While better pictures are nice it would be helpful if you communicated with us in words what you see as the errors on this coin.
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 Posted 12/30/2009  8:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lftbolol to your friends list
Once again...sorry! since I am new at this, my terminology is weak...but I want to say possibly Cud on the reverse and I am not sure about the mintmark, looks doubled.
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 Posted 12/30/2009  10:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coppercoins to your friends list
The mintmark is the result of a split in the copper plating on the coin that corroded subsequent to the strike. This caused the zinc core to expand causing the doubled appearance.

The 'thing' on the reverse of the coin is a gas bubble which was essentially caused by the same thing as the mintmark problem, except in this case there was an impurity on the zinc core when it was plated in copper. The impurity corroded completely underneath the copper causing the zinc expansion, which resulted in a gas bubble. Some coins have one, some have hundreds of them.

Neither of these occurrences are considered errors, and neither bring any premium value to the coin. In fact, they are more common that cleanly produced high quality cents from 1982 through 1989. Some of the techniques used were changed between 1990 and 1992, after which finding such horrid quality is more a rarity than a common thing.
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 Posted 12/31/2009  09:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add lftbolol to your friends list
Thank you all for your feedback...Happy New Year...Stay SAFE!
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 Posted 01/15/2011  5:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add OldFlabergeezer to your friends list
On topic, I hope the forum will examine the next example by a newbie!! Does this D look rotated and is it an error?
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 Posted 01/15/2011  6:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coppercoins to your friends list
That coin is normal too.

A couple of things...

1. Split plating around the mintmark is quite common for early zinc cents. They didn't get the concept of plating zinc with copper right until about 1992, so all dates from 1982 through 1991 show a number of imperfections that have become more obvious with time as the coins age.

2. Mintmarks were placed into the individual dies by hand until 1990, so having a mintmark that is tilted a little one way or the other is quite normal.
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 Posted 01/19/2011  5:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add OldFlabergeezer to your friends list
Thanks Copper! Had my hopes up!LOL!
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 Posted 01/20/2011  02:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
When you find a variety, you will know it. They leap right out at you. Coin searching trains your eye in this pattern:
1. I don't see anything.
2. I think I found a variety
3. I found a variety
4. I find too minor stuff.
5. I can figure out which ones to keep and what to toss back.
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 Posted 10/16/2016  11:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add twslisa to your friends list
Here's another one. It seems to have an extra rim or something.



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 Posted 10/16/2016  12:09 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add twslisa to your friends list
A couple more shots.



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 Posted 10/16/2016  12:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
Twslisa: The die die wear. It starts on the tops of the devices, then flows towards the rim. No premium for this though.
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 Posted 10/16/2016  12:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add twslisa to your friends list
Thanks, Coop! I'm really getting an education from you. Hope you don't mind all the questions!
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 Posted 10/16/2016  12:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coop to your friends list
It is best to create your own thread with your coin. Why? Because the information might be wanted to look up. The search engine would not find this. So your own thread is better to do. (you don't eant to hi-jack someone else's thread)
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