Two Pennies - One Post

to the forum, hope you stick around some and learn a bit. May I suggest the booklets below in the signature box. May help in understanding what you need to really look for instead of jusat picking something that doesn't look right. Both of what you are showing is normal for those coins, dates and stages of die wear. Please from now on show the whole coin too in pix, both sides. will help in diagnosis. The "dot" mintmark was a broken puncheon used to place the mintmark on the working dies at last stage of production. This was done up to 1990, when the MM's became part of the design. The "dot" MM shows up on many of the late 70's coins.


The letters being close to the edge is usually a later stage of die life, called Very Late Die State (VLDS). Metal flows to the outside from multiple poundings of the dies. This causes stretching and movement, increase in size of details. The circumference of the die itself must be milled down, this will cause a loss of the edges and any devices nearby.

Thanks Crazyb0! So basically there is no added value to coins that have these issues because it "happens so much" that no one gets exited about it?
I appreciate the input and we will read your material as well.
We have a few odd Ball things like "zebra stripes", cuts in the Wyoming horse's plant leg, etc. So far, nothing spectacular.
However, today was day one of sorting coppers and quarters from bank rolls, so we will see what else shows up!

Thanks!

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