Extremely off center penny

[NOLA_Ken]

This isn't exactly todays find, but it did show up in the mail today. Another poster put one of these up a while back and it got me thinking about some that my mom found in a shipment of new pennies when she was the reserve teller at a bank. Anyway, I called her and asked if she remembered them and she said she'd look for them. Well lo and behold one showed up in the mail. It's a 1983 d and as I remember there were about 20 of them in varying degrees of mis strike.

edit : I found one like it on ebay lited for around 17$ minus the mint mark, just for my own personal knowledge is that about where the value should be, or would mine be a bit more sincethe mint mark is visable?

 

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[Argentium]

I always wonder how its possible for the collar that holds the planchet in place for the strike -gets out of place ? Cool find .

 

[coinhound1983]

Check mine out. Been having this 1 for a minute.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Check mine out. Been having this 1 for a minute.

Yeah I think yours is the one I remembered seeing before. Argentum, I've wondered that too.....

 

[boomerlucas]

these are pretty cool, they must be making quite a few at a time to miss this

 

[Moonshadow]

I was a bank teller for 8 years and lived to find these guys! They (the federal reserve) throw those out for us collectors to find! It's awesome!

 

[jewelerguy]

and who says we can't produce goods just like they do in China?

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Lol! We are clutching up fast! The unusual is awesome!

 

[Sand Crab]

That's kinda cool! I've got a dime from when I was a teenager that's only stamped on one side. I haven't thought about it in years until I saw this.

 

[HutSiteDigger]

I know a civil war shop in Stafford,Virginia who has quite a few of these type of error pennies... He sells them for $7-$20.. He tried selling me one the other day with no date on it for $7 .. if that helps any.

 

[ModernMiner]

That is so cool. I bet those bank tellers come across some great coins.
Thanks for the post.
-MM-

 

[jewelerguy]

I bet those bank tellers come across some great coins.

yes they do. my wife worked as a bank teller several years ago. she brought me a good amount of silver and other obsolete coins. one of the more memorable finds she made was a one dollar silver certificate that had been carried by a GI in WW2. he had written all over it each time he made a landing in a different area. starting with leaving New York harbor, then Liverpool England, then the Cherbourg Peninsula in France on D-Day June 6th, 1944. most of the writing is illegible because it was so worn and carried so much, but it is wicked cool.

 

[fishkiller41]

That's kinda cool! I've got a dime from when I was a teenager that's only stamped on one side. I haven't thought about it in years until I saw this.

Only on ONE SIDE
The dies are set-up so one strike sets the print on both sides.Each soin is not hit twice...
THAT IS A RARE FIND, for sure!!!