The "Serpent" penny.
CoInSide7
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What causes this? Took a few differect pictures. What do u think causes this? Looks to me like it was struck twice but up side or backwards? 
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Run over in a parking lot many, many times. No collector value.
I guess that it must be a really rare and valuable coin then! See what you can get for it on the BST. Riches await!
Is this a joke or something? You have a coin that is 52 years old and very clearly heavily damaged from 5 decades of wear and tear and you come on a coin forum where pretty much EVERYONE knows more about coins than you and when someone there points out that is just an old, beat up penny you defend it as being some kind of ultramega rare misstruck error coin? Please.
You have a damaged beat-up coin worth face value as @291fifth said.
Well it was struck more then twice but not by a coin die.
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I think we need a bigger hammer
It's badly damaged;
No offense to the OP,
but I have to say I'm
a bit surprises that
this coin could possibly
be confused with an
error coin of any type.
When a car gets into a bad
crash, most of us know when
we see it that it's not a
'new body style'.
Assuming it is an error coin it is so badly damaged and unattractive I don't think you would be able to get anything more than face value for it. I don't see any indication of an error, but could just be the photos...and consider the lack of a very evident error in determining any perceived value. If the folks here cannot readily see the error then most likely it is so minor as to make it not one that would add to the value.
K
....please don't assume it might be an error.......
Up close it looks like some sort of abstract painting done in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven.
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I was trying to be polite
WhatI was trying to say was 'Even if it was a minor error coin of some sort it is a piece of junk that even Coinstar would reject.'
K
What never ceases to amaze me is how some people are so sure that their damaged coin is actually an error, yet they have no clue as to how that error might have occurred.
There is no explanation that I am aware of that would explain how this coin might have been produced at the mint, but there are many explanations as to how damage like this could have occurred outside of the Mint. I think have a similar cent that I tossed in my copper pile recently. If I can find it I might post it, but then again I don't think that would change any minds.
Kinda looks like a penny from the parking lot.
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Looks more like a penny that spent a year or two on the freeway............oh and I see faces hehehee
Steve
Not if they were run over years or even decades ago.
Exaaactly. The coin was face down, the tires provided the pressure, and the asphalt provided the rough surface.
Man oh man talk about a beat up lincoln cent.
Come on, roomies.............you know coins were minted to CIRCULATE
Pete
That coin has been in a parking lot and run over several times.... I see them often.... It is NOT an error coin...Cheers, RickO
"Serpent" ??...I don't understand.
Find a penny pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck.
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PM me? Or take it to BST.
A coin is worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. If one party says it’s worth nothing but another party says it’s worth five bucks, it’s worth $5.
Picked one up yesterday - with the sand and salt dumped on parking lots in my state during the winter the coin looked pretty much the same. The date was squished away and many marks. Back it went into circulation as I spent it later in the day. It was a zincoln so probably it won't even look as good as the OP's coin in a year!
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Would pcgs even grade this? Might be too beat up for consIderation. I wouldn't risk it.
Three suggestions:
1) Crop your photos to remove the background, and
2) Reduce image resolution to about 2000x2000 pixels, maximum before posting.
3) Ask questions rather than stating that a coin is a "doubled die" or some other assumption. Listen to members -- they will help you IF you ask.
IMO, any grading service WORTH BEING A TPGS would slab it as a damaged coin. Thankfully, things are different today. Damaged coins get slabbed and even lesser varieties are holdered. Actual numismatists have worked at the major TPGS for decades now. You'll rarely find any major variety unattributed anymore.
Struck through pavement.