1981 Error Cent - How Many Strikes?

Where do people find these abnormalties? (SP ? ) Not in a roll, I wouldn't think. It wouldn't fit. From bought bags? Clueless.

Bags and bags... and friends who have friends that roll coins from those bags for banks. While all error should be pulled and returned to the Mint, some people that work for the companies that roll coins (I'm not going to say any names) have ways of getting errors to coin dealers and collectors. I've pulled a few coins from bags, but I had a dealer that sold me most of my errors.

The dealer I bought from said the guy wouldn't give his name, but would come in a couple of times a year with a few hundred errors. He did this for years and then just vanished, never to be seen again. They didn't know if he got caught or just moved on. I checked the other coin dealers in the Dallas area, but they almost never had errors.

I got one bag of 1974-D Cents on ebay and found that 99% of them had heavy die clash and over polished dies. I bought tubes to put the coins in and found that only 48 Cents would fit in each tube. I also found that the $50.00 bag had $56.24 (original post on this bag is https://goccf.com/t/89269 )

Thanks Mike! I'm still learning how errors are made. I'll stop guessing and just ask from now on. (I don't want to look too stupid.)

and BPOC1, No, not a find. I bought this one on ebay, but didn't see the uniface edge was curved out instead of in until I took a photo.