1962 Lincoln penny errors
Vin71
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Hey guys, needed your expertise on this Lincoln cent, search web and couldn't find anything. Going through my coins and I found this 62 penny that has an error on LIBERTY. If you look at the letter T, it's actually looks to be #7. I know my eyes is not deceiving me. Definitely seems like an error.
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That is too blurry to see anything
BHNC #203
It is just a bit of damage but it does indeed look like a 7. You might want to familiarize yourself with the type of errors that are possible. Also, the odds of you finding a valuable error are vanishingly small.
Nothing there but post-mint damage.
Ah yes, the Liberty Bell 7 which honored Gus Grissom's 1961 successful suborbital flight and then the unexpected sinking of that Mercury #11 capsule.
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Your eyes are not deceiving you... it is PMD that makes the T look like a 7. Definitely not a mint error. Cheers, RickO
Contact mark/hit mark
for PCGS. A 49+-Year PNG Member...A full numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022
Wouldn't that still fall under error, because all my 62 pennies are normal strikes
Post mint damage is not an error. An error has to happen at the mint, prior to or during striking.
So contact/hit is not done in the mint?
No. Coins certainly acquire some marks when they are dumped into bins and transported but those aren’t errors either. What really matters is whether the alteration is post-striking.