Looking for help, 8coins with no mint mark 1964-1976
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A couple friends of mine have taught me a little bit about coin collecting but i can't contact them currently
I have two 1964 nickels, one 1966 dime, two 1967 dimes, one 1967 quarter, one 1973 quarter and one 1976 penny. All with no mint mark.
I'm fairly young and at kind of a rough point in my life and just trying to figure out the actual value of some of these, hopefully i might have something good.
Definitely willing to sell and would give anyone who can help a good deal.
I can take and send more pictures.
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Do you have any of those coins with a mintmark?
Half of the ones you listed never have a mintmark, and the rest come both ways.
You have coins that are worth a grand total of $.91, coins minted in Philadelphia do not have mint marks for those dates. Sadly you will see many rip off sellers on the net that are attempting to sell these as errors for large sums of money, they are not errors and have no value over the face value unless they are in extremely high grade.
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@Discontinued_inches... Welcome aboard. As noted above, the lack of a mint mark, in those cases, means it was minted in Philadelphia. So that detail is normal. You can post pictures in a few days, but unless those are fresh out of a mint set, with no handling, they are unlikely to have any numismatic premium. Cheers, RickO
Sorry, but what you have are just common coins worth only face value.
@Discontinued_inches please read the first message in the first thread at the top of this forum (Resources: Books-Links to read on numismatic series, errors, and varieties), and then buy and read the Red Book that is discussed in that message.
Howdy and welcome.
It appears your friends did you no favors with the "knowledge" they shared with you. Either buy a Redbook or go to a library or bookstore and read one for free. It will help you much more than anything you have been told off these boards. The coins you describe are worth essentially face value, in this case 91-cents. No doubt someone else on these boards will try to "help" you by filling their post with the most incredible stories of rare finds for the date, but until proven otherwise you don't have rare.
Regardless, this board is not for selling and an offer to sell should not be put in this section. Try the BST section for selling.
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What about a 1943 steel penny? the moron that gave it to me ripped it out of the packaging but it went from his hand to mine and ive had it wrapped up and tucked away ever since .
A circulated 1943 steel cent (the coin is most likely circulated) can be had for a few cents, but to be safe I would assume it worth less than a dollar. Mint state pieces can go for more, but again I will assume from your background and your friends that we are writing about a circulated coin.
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Look those same coins up on ebay, BUT!!! in the search Do Not Include the words "No Mint Mark" just use the date and reference to the coin like Lincoln Cent!
The "No Mint Mark Extremely RARE" sticks to a magnet is a scam that was started by some scammers. Yes! you can find some in the sold listings by people who saw them on itsy for thousands of dollars, then ran to ebay and found them for thousands less and bought them for a big return FAIL!
Look at the images from this Official Red Book of US coins.
Look at each coin, notice the different mint marks, well look at all of them that don't include a mint mark! that means those coins don't bare a mint mark!
So, what's being said here is your coins are not supposed to have a mint mark, and in many cases the number minted not baring a mint mark out number the minted total of the other two mints.
Yes, you've been duped!
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Packaging?
Could just be a 2c2
Actually, the information in the first couple of posts is incorrect. Although it's a little-known edge case.
The coinage act of 1965, which authorized the clad coins (dime, quarter, and half) we know today had several special provisions for this transition... including
This was to allow the manufacture of the large # of coins required to replace the circulating silver coins without any incentives for hoarding or collecting. Since Philadelphia makes all of the dies, there is no way to tell where a given dime or quarter or half was actually struck.
This part of the act was repealed with the coinage act of 1968 which is why 1968 and later coins have mintmarks for Denver and San Francisco, and then Ps as Philadelphia began to mark their coins.
Also little known is that the 1965 act allowed the mint to continue striking 1964 dated silver coins until there were sufficient clad coins. The last 1964 dated silver coins were struck in April 1966.
These kinds of fun oddities are why you can almost guarantee that any blanket statement about coins is wrong in some tiny way.
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