Strange change help for the coinage challanged

Stacey

You have all been a great wealth of information . How about these coins? The first one appears to have streaks on it. The 2 1972's look strange. the 1970 looks like that on both sides. and The 1968 penny is almost silver. Help! thanks again. I hope these scans are better than the last ones. It took two days to figure it out .

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ccr

The 1972`s look cleaned with something like Comet ( a definite no-no on any coin ) or something like copper/brass polish. The 1970 looks like it`s just honest wear. With the 1968, pennies then as well as now are made of a zinc/nickel core and incased with copper. It looks like to me that some of the copper has been chipped off or wore off. Fairly common and has to do more with the slightily less then ideal making of it and then being circulated. Those would be my guess` on the lot.

michael

the 81 cent looks like an improper alloy mixture to me and when rolled out in sheets to strike blanks on this streatches the alloy strewaks like this on this coin but i would need to see it in person to say for sure

the buff nick 1936 looks like a nice circulated example but i guess sometimes with wear and maybe some polishing? the coin does take on an appearance of a worn silver coin? again i would need to see this coin in person to make an accurate accessemt

the 71 cent look corroded to me and also someone has tried to fold in the rims so the coin becomes smaller like they do with a spoon and begin tapping the rims to make the coin smaller but again iwould need to see this coin in person to offer a real accurate accessment

the 1968 cent looks like someone plated it after it left the mint as the design and deatuials are mushy from the plateing being put over the original copper coin again i wouldneed to see this coin in person to make an accurate accessment

and the above are only guesstimates from looking at scans for like less than a second each coin

that was a great post and you found some interesting coins!! wow i hope you keep looking and you might find some really intereasting new undiscovered mint error coins or maybe a good die variety waht you are doimng is the true coin collector and he/she starts this way and it is a constant learning experience and improvement !!!

keep up the good wrok and let us know waht you come up with

your scans are good also!!!!!!!!!!!!!

contact me anytime on here or privately for any assistance i might offer you!! never a bother i will always try to give you what i think


sincerely michael

coppercoins

As Michael stated, the 1981 is a case of improper alloy mixture. This is very common on early Lincolns, then suddenly appeared and is common again from around 1977 through the end of the brass alloy cent in 1982. I would not hesitate to say there would likely be no premium value for such a coin because they are common.

Your 1972 cents all appear to be rather normal to me - other than the one with the double rim, which was caused by a misaligned die. Except for the fact that they are common on early 70s cents, it's a nice minor error.

Your 1971 cent is the result of "spooning" or "hammering" where someone with a lot of time on their hands tapped the edges of the coin until the rim actually starts to recede and the coin becomes smaller in diameter.

I'm not sure where CCR got the information that 1968 cents are made of zinc and nickel then plated with copper, but it is incorrect. All cents minted from 1962-1981, and cents minted into mid-year 1982 are made of a 95% copper, 5% zinc alloy mixture. Nickel has not been a factor in cents since 1864, and plated cents, other than the single exception of 1943, didn't start until mid-year 1982. Your 1968 cent is the unfortunate victim of either a dipping or a cleaning with some chemical - no telling exactly what without digging into it further, which would more or less produce the same result anyway...it's cleaned, thus worth one cent.

Regarding the nickel, I'm not a nickel collector so I don't really see anything out of the ordinary.