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 Posted 04/24/2013  09:47 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add jrddecker to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi. Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm trying to raise some money quickly to get a plane ticket for a plane. So, I decided to sale some of my coins and I'm hoping the error coins will take a large chuck of the money I need to raise. I managed to pick up three different error coins while working register at my old job. Thanks to an older post here I was able to identify one as a brockage, and havent been able to quite figure these ones out. I havent cleaned these, didnt want to do any sort of damage to them. The first is a One Cent piece from 1997. Its slightly bowed which lead me to believe it might be a saddle error, but its not off struck. The sides are weird, not a flat surface as seen from the picture. It also seems to be missing the top coating and looks like an old steel penny. The next is a Washington quarter, I can make out both his head and the eagle on the back, but I'm not honestly sure if this an error or a coin that met with a strange fate. Its mostly smooth on the edges and I cant make out a date at all. Seems to be solid silver, so I almost threw it in my scrap silver, but then again, it could be the coating covering the sides completely and I cant make out the other metals normal visible. Any ideas on that one? And lastly is a 2002 Quarter. I believe is want a defect either in the die or the parchment. I really dont know much about error coins and have a learned a lot from your forums. Thanks for all your great work.

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The 2002 quarter looks like it was shot. The other quarter looks like it met an acid bath. I can't see much of the penny. These are just guesses btw.
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Sorry the be the bearer of bad news but the only value you have there is 51 cents, all three coins have been damaged in various ways.
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I had a feeling about the two quarters. Oh well. Thanks.
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I can understand that about the quarters, the penny isn't copper looking, its steel. I took it to an coin shop in my area. It has a missing chad layer. So, thats a pretty good error. Thanks again.
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The cent is not an error and it is not steel as the US does not use any steel planchets(1943 being the exception). All post-1982 business strike cents are composed of copper-plated zinc. Yes, you can find cent errors missing the copper plating but your coin is not one of them. Compare it to a normal cent and notice that your diameter is larger than normal. That is because the coin has been pounded, most likely between two pieces of leather, to remove the copper plating in an alteration known as a "Texas Penny". The pounding also created the groove around the rim and added the slight bend to the coin.
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Hey bio, thanks for the info on the Texas Penny. Never heard of such a specimen. jrddecker - keep your head up, keep looking, and keep learning. Thanks for taking the time to share your coins.
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