Ever Seen a Penny Like This?

Baldingboy · Mar 26, 2012

I was detecting at an old 1920's house the other night and dug this little rascal up. At first I thought it had dirt clinging to it, but it clearly isn't dirt. Has anyone ever seen an error on a coin like this. Thoughts?

Baldingboy :skullflag:

frankendime · Mar 26, 2012

Appears to be a cud from a die break of some sort to me. A chip broke out of the die before coin was struck leaving that metal to push up into that blank area. Nice error, condition not so great. Coneca is a good research source for this, saw some interesting looking errors like this on their website. Good Find!

HH

Can't shake this feeling I have seen that error somewhere before. Can't remember where. There is a forum called Cointalk where a past president of CONECO, Mike Diamond, specializing in error coins lurks. Post a pic there, maybe he'll give you a professional opinion.

CoinHELP! · Mar 30, 2012

It's not a cud since they only happen on the rim of a coin. This could be damage, but hard to tell since the coin has a great amount of corrossion. Damage can get worn and corroded making it look like a mint error.

Coinkid · Mar 31, 2012

It's damage, sorry.

frankendime · Mar 31, 2012

CoinHELP! said:
It's not a cud since they only happen on the rim of a coin. This could be damage, but hard to tell since the coin has a great amount of corrossion. Damage can get worn and corroded making it look like a mint error.

You are correct. My bad. It is not a cud. Still could possibly be a major interior die break. probably not worth much in that condition.