1973 D LMC Wonky Liberty

Hard to see for sure in your photo, but looks like it took a hit. Regardless, and just in case you are wondering, something like this has no added value. I know the tons of ebay "L@@K ARARE COIN L@@K" auctions seem to imply otherwise, but most of thos go unsold and are not actual mint errors that will ever get the buyer what they shelled out to own it if they try to sell it to a legit coin dealer or collector.

Coins spend very little time at the mint being made. The machinery there can only produce a finite number of errors.

A coin can spend up to a century or more in circulation where every day it is subjected to abuse...hence PMD is going to be the answer the vast majority of the time when people just look for odd stuff.

To know real errors, get a box of pennies from the bank, sort by date and mint mark, then go to veroetyvista.com and use the pics there to find EXACT matches.

Partial matches are not mint errors but things like Machine Doubling and are non-collectable. New finds are almost totally unheard (I cannot emphasize that enough) of in modern times except of freshly released coinage every year.

Earle sums it up well.



to the CCF!

I'm not sure what it is. I've found this on a lot of years. From the 60s to the 2020s. I think the LI is normal size and the BERTY seems to have grown bigger. It's like the center of die spread out more than the outside.