cash drawer today, error penny?

[Diggincoinz]

Ok smarties, what's this? An error coin or a variety coin?

It looks like it reads either 1982 or 1987, looks like a large date '82 I guess. You can barely make out the lettering and Lincoln's image, the reverse side is perfect. Hmmm...

Chris

 

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[Mighty AP]

Wow! Id say a mint error, dont know. Might be worth a few bucks?

 

[dg39]

May have been burnished off the Lincoln side. It would take an expert coin dealer to tell you. It would not be worth a lot, but it would have some value if it is a ligit mint error...I have seen blanks on both sides but not one...If there is a coin dealer in you area take it by and ask him to look at it. If he offfers to buy it , its probably real. Or he may give you an honest anwser.. I have delt with both kinds...

 

[Diggincoinz]

I have a couple of blanks and they're blank on both sides, this has an image though.

I wouldn't trust any coin dealer unless I knew them personally. I'm just hanging on to it, forever!

Probably can't retire on it yet though.

 

[goldencoin]

Possibly, it is top die filled....never seen anything like it

HH
-GC

 

[Green1]

i did that to 100 pennies, then put them back into circulation..........just kiddin,, very cool..

 

[MikeOregon]

I got the very same thing this weekend when looking through a bag of cents. Thought it was just someone's idea of a joke and threw it back. Well, actually, it's in a coffee can somewhere around here with about 3000 other zinc cents. So, we can now be certain that there at least two of them out there.

Mike

 

[battlecat]

if the blank area is hollowed out its a magic trick... can you put it on top of a dime and it
hides it?? the object to the trick is you put the dime down with this on top of it
then you put what looks like a box down on top the penny (actually a felt covered magnet) when you remove the box all thats left is a dime.... I used to have that trick
neat find

 

[allsmith]

if the blank area is hollowed out its a magic trick... can you put it on top of a dime and it
hides it?? the object to the trick is you put the dime down with this on top of it
then you put what looks like a box down on top the penny (actually a felt covered magnet) when you remove the box all thats left is a dime.... I used to have that trick
neat find

that sounds like a cool trick battlecat,, but was the penny a fake steel penny for the magnet to pick it up?? maybe fun to make one out of a steel 34 penny ,, and amaze my friends

 

[Rob66]

Great fine!!!!Is there a seam line around coin? if not, more than likely a mint error.

 

[Rusted_Iron]

if the blank area is hollowed out its a magic trick... can you put it on top of a dime and it
hides it?? the object to the trick is you put the dime down with this on top of it
then you put what looks like a box down on top the penny (actually a felt covered magnet) when you remove the box all thats left is a dime.... I used to have that trick
neat find

I used to have one of those too!! Neat magic trick. I wonder if that's still around here somewhere packed away in a box.

 

[oddcoins]

Yes, that is a mint-made error coin.

It was struck through a late stage capped die. There was a cent that adhered/stuck to the obverse die (hammer die ~ "heads" die) . . . . . then the next several strikes after that coin got struck through it . . . . . it's a good error coin . . . too bad there's not much showing . . . .the earlier stages would have an incused mirror image called "brockage" . . . . those ones are worth more to error coin collectors, especially the very first strike full brockage pieces can sell for several hundred dollars . . . . . this one you found is probably more like about a $20 to $25 error coin. NICE FIND!!

 

[knapper]

put it on ebay and get rich my man

 

[Diggincoinz]

put it on ebay and get rich my man

Ha! Then maybe I can updrade my detector?