New Member And Recent Find

cool, nice die crack

Thank you for your good comments!

Like I said I'm new so I may get something wrong from time to time, which is why I came here in the first place...to learn, right?

I'm not tryin to strike it rich, either...but it is nice to know what something is worth. I've really become interested in learning about errors, and boy is it ever gratifying to find one, even if it's a measly cracked die :) that you guys have seen twenty-eleven times.

Coppercoins, I have a question for you if you read this, or I guess anyone else can answer it they know the answer: I understand that you said these are fairly common. I have no problem accepting that, but alot of websites I've read about errors say that 2007 is a hard year to find Lincoln Cent errors because of the benefit of better minting technologies, which would eliminate some of the types of errors found. Is this true at all? If so, how would that affect the market on error coins from later years down the line?

Sorry if this is might be a conversation you have had already, it's just a question I've wanted to ask about for a long time. Thanks again!


Signed,

The AnOmAlY

P.S. I'm glad my picture posted correctly, I might try to post a different one later of another weird 2007 Lincoln Cent that I found recently, and get a few more opinions....! Thanks for the nice welcome.

Hi,

and Welcome,

Actually to those of us that look at a lot of coins, die cracks and die chips are as common as grains of sand in Miami.

I think it can be more of a challenge, for example to find a States Quarter that has no die chips or die cracks.

When they say that Post-2000 dated error coins are more scarce, they are talking about major errors and not minor things like cracks.

In comparison to years past, it is tougher to find Post-2000 Off center struck coins, Capped die strikes, Indented strikes, double strikes and other major error categories.

Die fatigue causes die cracks and die chips to occur. That has nothing to do with the technology that has made real errors more scarce. Die cracks and die chips will be with us as long as we use dies to strike coins. They are more an indication of die wear than really being an error. They would be considered more toward errors and not varieties.

They will never be scarce and that is why they have no premium above face value unless they are real whoppers and go from rim to rim.

I hope this helps,

Thanks,
Bill

100% agreement with Bill, and Chuck.
I have several rolls of 2007-P cents that have a huge mess of cracks, all over the head, mostly in the hair, and facial area. By the same token, the "D" has so very few, that it is useless to search for them.
I like the cracks, in particular, since having started collecting varieties, about two years ago, I have run into all kinds of cracks, minor on the edge of the Memorial bldy, to the rim, to huge spikes that go into the head ,into the building, and there are also known as spears, going onto animals. The more advanced the crack, the more interesting , to me. Chuck m or Bill mentioned the States series. There are very few quarters that have come into my hand that DO NOT have a crack running cross-ways acropss the trunck, thru the initials, and sometimes all the way down to the rim, or from the rim up to the trunck, and across, part way. These cracks eventually will end up being replaced in time. It is like preventative maint. to avoid the waste iof materiaks, and also to to prevent a Cud being formed, due to the loss of an edge of the die, leaving a gap, and causing the Cud. Cracks, worth money? Not really. Too common. The ones that might be of interest are the more spectacular ones, and then only to a collector of that thing. Educational value, little, if anything. Just my "cracked" Two Cents.
I might mention that on the reverse of those with the "fractured skull, there are usually found a bar, next to the 7th column, about an arms length in size, ( too minor to list on the site, but interesting, never the less).
Dick