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Before anyone asks, it is the size and weight of a Mercury dime and is silver. I suspect that it was pulled from a bank roll of 1942 cents as there is no wear but a weakness of the obverse strike. |
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Had a customer with a similar coin. He had PCGS slab it, and had an offer of $2500, that he turned down.
Grade was XF45. Cent on Silver Dime Planchet.
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Sorry, grade wise, looks AU+, could be Mint State... tough to tell sometimes on errors.
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It was tough to shoot in the 2x2. In hand there appears to be no wear, just a poor strike due to the size difference in the planchets. If you were me, would you send it in for grading?
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i agree! it will only make the coin worth more!
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Absoloutely! It would make people sure it was a legit error and not just a fake
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Since I have never set a coin in for a grade, which house would you suggest? I know that the most respected are PCGS and NGC but there are also differences in cost. I have some very high grade dimes and quarters that I would also consider sending. Is it best to join one and stick with them? I sure would like to do it right the first time out. I welcome all advice!
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PCGS is the King of the Hill so I don't think you can go wrong with them, but they are expensive. The silver cent you posted here deserves the best plus it will add to the value of an already valuable coin.
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Fred Weinberg has several silver cents listed at $1200-2500 with clad cents listed at $400-700.
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Maybe you should have the coin looked at furthur by an expert
before sending it in for a cert. Hard to tell with pics. but something does not look right as far as it being silver. The diameter
looks a little large also for a dime. But maybe that is what happens
when squeezed. Devices seem to fit pretty close to normal for a cent. Was the mint doing any foreign jobs at that time ?
Hope it does turn out to be a dime for you though.
If so nice find.
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Size looks right to me.
I owned a 1999 clad cent in MS 65 graded by PCGS that I purchased from Fred Weinberg, I bought it as an investment piece and I think that's the year the mint introduce new method in tightening error coins from being occurred in production.
Well, so much for quality control, error still happens and probably never going to change.
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Size looks right, strike quality looks right, he says the weight is right for a dime, I'd say it looks real.
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