1993 Edge Error

its a MAD(mis-aligned die)

these are quite common on Lincoln cents. worth face value, sorry

But still, it is nice to keep an example of a MAD

on ebay? yeah no doubt, but to me and most of the other collectors, its too common to be paying a premium, although people do collect them, I cant see them being of that much value. just IMO

its in the top 5 marketplace, but they sell literally everything. from chairs to potato chips with Jesus on them, not just coins.


im just saying that the way I learned it on here, was that MADs are worth face, and its been told that many times to newer collectors.

I don't know. Honestly I can see both sides of the coin (pun intended).
Seems to me ebay is a great barometer of marketability but not really collectability. Yes, it has the largest audience. Unfortunately it is a largely uneducated audience. While you may be able to create a trendy market for a pseudo collectable (beanie babies, silly bands, etc..) True value, I think, is better represented in long term value.
I guess in a free market value is a trend. But just because I can sell something doesn't make it truely valuble. IMO
Any of that make sense?

worth isn't based on one thing...here is my thoughts


this is confusing to me
so lets say you have a coin, the rarest coin of them all and you say it's worth 5,000,000 dollars, but no one in the world buys it or wants it. Is it still valuable?
It's the rarest coin in the world, but no one collects coins anymore
where is the value in that
I think everyone needs to understand one very important thing that my father has told me since I was a kid collecting football and hockey cards.
"It's only worth what someone's willing to pay you for it"
ebay is where people buy things, its where deals are made, and where people freely choose if they are going to pay an amount for an item or pass it up. It's what people are willing to pay for it. Who cares if the are "educated" shoppers or not. They are shoppers, they are the demand, they are the buyers.

Another cliche type saying "one man's treasure is another man's gold"
I have an old old adding machine from my grandmother. It weighs a ton, it's bulky and takes up counter space. My cousin collects antiques and didn't want it. He said it wasn't worth anything to throw it out. I took it from my grandmother gratefully and plan on keeping it to remember her by when I can no longer go an visit her. If I could save one thing from my apartment if it caught on fire and my coins were all packed up and the adding machine was right next to them, I would grab the worthless machine every time. Tons of things give stuff value. What people will pay for them is one side of the story, and what people cherish or like is the other side. If people want to buy and sell what is garbage in your eyes then let them do it, but don't tell them what they have is worthless, cause that just makes you seem like an idiot.
is this topic locked up after this post or is there still more to say. ebay is a good tool it shows you what people will buy, and it shows you one of the biggest audiences you could ever find. It shows you "educated" and "uneducated" shoppers. Another little tid bit, how many of you educated coin guys have gotten ripped off (fake coin, mislead, impulse buy that wasn't worth it) buying something on ebay or anywhere for that matter? If you have, you turned into an uneducated shopper. Think about it, buy what you like and remember it's a hobby first, if you can make money off it later cool. But always think of it as a hobby

Wow, seriously? Now Adam_E has been known to jump the gun on things around here, but I think you guys are really beating him up for nothing here. He (sorta) answered the poster's question and informed him of what he thought the value was. I think he's spot on. Do a completed search on ebay for misaligned die and you'll see that the only ones that even sell are misaligned to a much larger degree than the one above. The closest I saw was an 1982P that sold for $0.80 - even if you can sell it for 500 times face, I don't think it's really worth your time to do so. I doubt a dealer or another collector would buy it either.

Now, Adam_E didn't really answer the question and explain that a MAD struck coin is an error or add how it happens, but from coin's (how was *that* name available?) response I think he got the answer he was looking for.