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New Member
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Thought Id post my collection here of what I have. I'm new, and figure this can break the ice and say hello to everyone here. Look forward in sharing my collection with everyone who would like to see it. They are of my 15 1957 D Wheat Pennies with the B filled in, or the 9, or of center punch, along with fill in's. Got them as part of a Christmas Present my Mother In Law gave me. They were in a Jar of around 30-40 of other Wheat Pennies I was going through she had been saving for a very long time. I was going through them quick and looking at them I started to come up with more and more 57's with problems, till I had 15 of them total. Thought this was kinda cool, so I figured I would pass them on, with 2 others I found in the mix as well that seemed to be messed up at the mint then made it into the population.   http://community.webshots.com/album...st=communityFull size of them that can be saved and zoomed in even more, right click and save as, can be seen there. |
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Pillar of the Community
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 funboy to the forum. Yep 1957 was a good year for those errors. They are plentiful. |
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Pillar of the Community
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The 50s was interesting for those chips...it seems to be a common problem on dies. Does anybody know exactly why?  |
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Valued Member
United States
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i have about 65 of these and I would say that over half is 1957.i find alot from 1957 |
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New Member
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Well poop, I was hoping not to hear these were that easy to find :(
But thanks for letting me know anyways!
Think I'm gonna like being here :)
OH and the two on the very far right, are not from 1957, but I think they were mis-struck, or show kinda signs that they were to me at least.
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01/17/2009 11:19 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote:
Kurt Said:
The 50s was interesting for those chips...it seems to be a common problem on dies. Does anybody know exactly why? During the 1950's the die were used to the longest amount of time as possible. The dies broke down, they continued to use them. The 1953, 1955 has the "So called" doubled last digit on the date. 1954 Cents have a very mushy look to them. Just over use and use the dies till they DIED. By the way, I've hung out the welcome sign!  Edited by coop
01/18/2009 08:31 am
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Valued Member
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funny you should bring this up. I have one each of filled D mint marks from 1971-1984. I started noticing them in the drawer and thought it would an interesting nitch. I know it'll be no problem getting older ones like this. But how much newer will they be before I run out of luck?
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Pillar of the Community
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die chips are actually pretty common - there is no specific reason that I know of as to why they are more common in the late 1950s than any other period.
The filled mintmarks are die chips as well, and can be had up until the point they changed the D mintmark in 1982. It was enlarged slightly that year, then changed again altogether in 1985 to a much larger letter.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Then changed again in 2008.  |
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Welcome to Coin Community, funboy6942. Your nick is familiar to me. We've crossed paths somewhere else, and I'm probably going to be embarrassed when you remind me.  |
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