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New Member
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I have two coins I purchased a number of years ago, a Lincoln Cent and a Jefferson nickle, that were struck on another denomination's blanks. The Lincoln Cent was struck on a dime blank, and the Jefferson nickle was struck on a Lincoln blank. I'm planning on selling both of these errors, and I'm wondering if it's worth it to send them to a grading service to be slabbed. If so, which one? Thanks for looking. Jim.     Edited by JJPARKER_ONLINE
03/09/2009 8:52 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yes, and probably PCGS.
They do appear to be genuine.
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Valued Member
United States
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Very nice... I love this kind of stuff.  Sadly I don't own one. Yet  Edited by soldier4Christ
03/10/2009 12:25 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I agree that they are genuine and PCGS is the best place to go for these.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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They appear genuine, and I don't think they need slabbing. An error collector who knows his stuff and who would be interested in these coins would be able to tell that they are real, and the cost of slabbing them would be a SIGNIFICANT portion of their final value. I doubt if having them slabbed would be of that much interest to an error collector or would result in them being willing to pay a higher price.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Really? I know very little about error values, but I would imagine these to be scarce enough to bring well over slabbing fees.
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 United States
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Yes,slab them and use PCGS. John1  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am not one to advise slabbing often but because these are MS examples, it might help to get a numerical grade added to these.
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 with all above, I feel that this is a rare error  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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It's been too long since I priced these. I used to buy the nickels on cent planchets for about $30 and since I still see a fair number of them I didn't think the price had gotten that much higher. But it seems they have and these would probably be more like $150 now. (wholesale) Cost to slab as a mint error is still $40 I believe plus shipping and insurance both ways.
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Pillar of the Community
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I was curious about value, so I dropped over to Heritage on sales of slabbed off-metal strikes.
1968-S 5C Jefferson Nickel--Struck on a Cent Planchet--MS64 PCGS. $488 on Jun 2, 2006
1982 1C Small Date Lincoln Cent--Struck on a Clad Dime Planchet--MS64 PCGS. $431 on May 5, 2005
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Posted 03/10/2009 12:25 am
