1984 One Cent Mint Error, What's It Worth? Pics Included

edited since I do not wish to be a sales pitch

I would like to quote some of the posts on this forum for my ebay listing. Since I have limited knowledge as to the qualities of this coin, I'd appreciate if I could quote the members here anonymously. If you object, please feel free to edit the post that I quoted to delete it.



After "expirementing" with burning, torching, cooking etc, there's absolutely no way this is post mint ., i.e. fake.



Thanks for all the input to date.

Looks Like it's Real



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Very good point Bill, I just looked at the auction and noticed that some of my random comments were listed as supporting info so all of my posts on the subject have been edited out now. I really don't feel the need to help someone else sell something that should be in a slab(or at least properly attributed) in the first place. If you don't know what it is, DO NOT list it on ebay and then ask around as to what in the heck it is. That is a backwards and shady way of dealing with things IMO. I feel dirty now, I think I will go take a shower and scrub myself with a wire brush

Bryan, he's just trying to prove that his coin is a real die break, which it is. The one on Heritage is quite obviously from the same broken die.

He's been taking some bashing elsewhere about this coin just being damaged. I give him credit, he stuck to his guns through a lot of crap, and proved it. At least to me.

Here is the Heritage coin, obviously from the same busticated die.

Thank you Bobby,,, I have put up with a lot of heckling. I spent HOURs surfing looking for anyting close to my coin's appearance. I am thick headed, am I not. I spent hours looking at the coin through high power magnification. I tired duplicating the coin. All proved to me that my coin is really a mint error.

The only problem I have is that the "other" coin sold Over the 4th of July weekend and most likely didn't get the attention that ebay offers.

Only the final ding will determine what this coin is truly worth, UNSLABBED, but with a guarantee that it could be slabbed.

ps this is the FIRST and only coin I've tried selling ebay or otherwise, it IS as I've stated from the very beginning, and I might even through in the little plastic bag that I've had it stored in,,,

Bryan I know you weren't bashing him, he been getting it other places though.

One of the major concerns for me is that with coins, unless the coin is in hand in order to view it personally, what we say here is a best guess. A best guess based upon a picture may or may not be correct. It is not as cut and dry as listing parts for automobiles where a wheel cover for a 1963 Buick Wildcat can be identified by it's look, for example.

If you list a coin and add my description of what a coin might be, that lends credence to the listing even though the best guess may be wrong in some cases.

Some of us are published authors and our opinions hold some weight in the coin field. You can be sure that if our best guess was used in an ad by someone else to sell a coin and the best guess was incorrect, the buyer of your coin would be looking to us for answers as we can easily be found with a few well placed words in a google search bar.

For some of us, our credibility is at stake. I am not willing to jeopardize it. You didnt upset anyone, but I wouldn't want to be responsible for someone getting a coin that may not be what it is listed as based upon a description I might give, based upon a picture and not the actual coin.

With what you do for example, If I posted a picture of a fender from a 1968 Mercedes and you said, "Well, It looks like it could be" and I used your words to sell my fender which really is a fender from a 1967 Mercedes, the first thing I might use as a reason for the "mistake" was that you said it was from a 1968. It's just a tricky position to be in. I hope you understand. We offer assistance in helping collectors learn about what they have but at least what I post is not intended to be used as sales material on an ebay item that isn't mine.
Thanks,