Unknown date penny with letters possibly letter under neath lincoln help!!!

gabe9991

I found this coin roll hunting and there is a what looks to be a 1 or something on the left side of Lincoln underneath and on the right I see a possible T may be 2 of them not sure you decide please identify. I can't even see a date it looks like 1926 possibly not sure though.
It weighs 3.00 grams and the top letters (in god) look strange to thanks

Alltheabove76

Looks like 1916-D

Jimnight

The cent is very well circulated and worth one cent.

ricko

Extensive wear on the coin and no numismatic value. Cheers, RickO

david3142

Very hard to tell. I’d guess 1926 but could just as easily be 1916 or 1936. Not sure if the mintmark is a D or an S. If it’s a 1926-S it is worth more than 1 cent, even in F-AG condition. At the very least, all wheat cents are worth 2.5.

Also, you are wasting your time weighing these.

gabe9991

Looking at it for the past 10 minutes there's is N and a U and if you look close enough upside down and there's a 1 on the left side you can also see the top bars of the U mostly against the rim and it's odd that the N and U and the 1 matches the spots of an Indian head cent just the words are cut off a little if you face my penny heads down over the Indian head cent.I have a bad camera sorry

david3142

You are also wasting your time looking for letters where they don’t belong. There are only two interesting questions about this coin - what are the date and mintmark? That’s it.

Curiosity is a great thing but it needs to be tempered with sound judgment if time is of value.

gabe9991

I know it's very worn I just wanted an identification but if you looked at in person there is a one underneath Lincoln's left shoulder why is it there or what is it. you can very faintly see may be United underneath his right shoulder I just think that it's one of those thing you have to see in person it's hard to see but here's a 1919s to compare it to

RogerB

Damage and wear.

JBK

You are being defiant and are seeing what you want to see and refusing to take the advice of some very knowledgeable people.

The problem is not your pictures - they are actually pretty good. This cent is excessively worn and damaged. Even if there was an error there somewhere it is too beat up to matter or to positively identify it.

If you are so sure it is an error, spend the money to send it to PCGS.

FredWeinberg

Classic example of Numismatic Pareidolia

MsMorrisine

it's not even a clash?

although the spread on some of that is really and oddly wide.

mannie gray

@gabe9991
I'm not a vindictive or evil person but I think it is time for us to stop answering your questions.
You have the best in the business here, spending their time answering your questions.
Hundreds if not thousands of years' experience of looking at coins here...but you won't attempt to listen or learn.
How do you think we figured stuff out? There was no internet to throw inane questions out there.
.Fred Weinberg, an expert on errors, who spends his valuable time attempting to mentor you, and you continue to brush answers and advice aside.
I for one will no longer respond to your posts.

ms70

I have to admit two interesting issues...

The strange and very symmetrical bar between the undamaged shoulder and undamaged rim,

and that the area at 5:00 has a matching disturbance at 11:00.

I'm not saying it is or isn't PMD, I'm just saying it's unusual.

JBK

@ms70 said:
I have to admit two interesting issues...

The strange and very symmetrical bar between the undamaged shoulder and undamaged rim,

and that the area at 5:00 has a matching disturbance at 11:00.

I'm not saying it is or isn't PMD, I'm just saying it's unusual.

Yes there are some oddities, but the coin is too beat up to decisively conclude what they are. The coin looks to me like it could have been exposed to a corrosive material or a sandblasting sort of environment. In that scenario, any protected spot would not have been affected and might appear higher than the fields around it. It is all speculation, of course, but I think that is all we have left with this particular coin.

JBK

Here is a bit of wisdom posted by @Paradisefound on another thread (edited slightly to apply to this situation):

I also see it as "numismatic tuition"
The board...... all included have been so helpful guiding me along through my >learning curve......thus mistakes were avoided and potential lost prevented.
I could not possibly find this kind of support anywhere else... 24/7 live of un-reserved frank >opinions

People who are hungry for information and are eager to learn can become true numismatists.

Treashunt

@FredWeinberg said:
Classic example of Numismatic Pareidolia

Pareidolia
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.

Love it!

Azurescens

Date is 1936.

Jcld

I see an extremely worn penny. The brain does funny things and at high magnification you can see all sorts of patterns emerging, but ultimately they are just random dings and wear marks.

abcde12345

Abbradided 1916 with a D. Grade? FA02 with our hosts.

CascadeChris

Google picteals

gabe9991

Thanks for the help everybody Even though it might not be anything I will send it to pcgs soon just to get it look at thanks

JBK

david3142

@gabe9991 said:
Thanks for the help everybody Even though it might not be anything I will send it to pcgs soon just to get it look at thanks

Definitely do NOT do this. I mean, if you like burning $50 bills, then, well, it's your money but there are a million better uses for it. It is highly likely it will come back unidentifiable or damaged. Your best case scenario is they can identify, it straight grades, and you have a slabbed coin with a fair value of $0.10.

BlindedByEgo

Clearly a troll, or damaged.