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? Is this what I THINK ? OR AM I JUST INSANE AND IGNORANT?!


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  • JasonGamingJasonGaming Posts: 928 ✭✭✭✭

    What are we looking for? I don’t see anything that makes this cent worth more than 1c.

    Always buying nice toned coins! Searching for a low grade 1873 Arrows DDO Dime and 1842-O Small Date Quarter.

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nope. I don't see John Wilkes Booth peering out from the second column.

  • SeanBSeanB Posts: 80

    So there's no doubling in this ? It doesn't look extra thick anywhere like in the bottoms of the T or in the D ?! Wtf? I will never get it!!!

  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,680 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Do you think it is a Lincoln Memorial cent reverse?, Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

  • thevolcanogodthevolcanogod Posts: 270 ✭✭✭

    Did you check on Variety Vista or Coppercoins or in the Cherry Picker’s Guide and is there a confirmed DDR for this date/mint?

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Broken record, but....what is the date, is there a known DD for that date, do you know the difference between a DD and MD, have you read the links many have posted....

    Never mind. Lost cause....

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 11, 2018 8:14PM

    @Justacommeman said:
    I’m leaning towards insane but could be talked into the other

    If there was a way to push the "Agree" button twenty gazillion times I would. Is there?

  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Alice, it's happening again!"

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nothing to see here folks, move along.

  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 35,964 ✭✭✭✭✭

    PMD to the letters

    Current maintainer of Stone's Master List of Favorite Websites // My BST transactions
  • giantsfan20giantsfan20 Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭✭
    edited May 11, 2018 9:39PM

    Evetbody just **ignore **them

  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ummmm........
    (Crickets chirping).

  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It will help if the OP will state what it is he/she thinks they see in the first post.

  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It might also help to consider this:

    If there is any way the "thing" you are seeing can be created by humans, or machines, or tools, or circulation...then it can't possibly be worth anything, or the smart folks here would me making them by the dozens!!

    True mint errors are interesting, collectible, and sometimes valuable, precisely because they could ONLY be created at the mint, by mistake or accident.

    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭



    Hoard the keys.
  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Send it to PCGS! I'm sure I see a basketball player on top of the memorial building AND a bow tie fantastic. Awesome find!

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • earlycoinsearlycoins Posts: 282 ✭✭✭

    It appears to be one of the very late 1958 cents.

    Best to get it to our host via Brinks.

  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 12, 2018 5:11AM

    I accept the OP's suggested premise that they are not mutually exclusive B)

    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,708 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why are they mutually exclusive?

    -----Burton
    ANA 50 year/Life Member (now "Emeritus")
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sorry, misread initially and edited for additional confusion :s

    "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Geo. Orwell
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is a Lincoln cent and not an error/variety.... Cheers, RickO

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,707 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is a coin of absolutely no numismatic importance even if there is doubling. The current trend evident on this board of collectors looking for extremely minor varieties, probably in the hope of striking it rich, is darkly amusing. Minor varieties are the realm of cherry-pickers and cherry-pickers don't pay premiums for such coins ... they only cherry-pick them.

    All glory is fleeting.
  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't see anything special with this coin.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,841 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Many years ago I had a book on doubled die Lincoln cents. It listed a large number of them, but the doubling was so minor on many of them that few people would have cared. When it takes a 10X or stronger to see the doubled die, it's not going to have a collector premium.

    Another point is that most of the coins you have posted have been damaged. Damage makes it harder to confirm what it is, and also knocks down the value of the piece to a great degree, even if it is a doubled die. People here are trying to help, but beyond being an academic exercise, there is no “gold mine” here when you find material of this sort.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The original Dawkins quote, if memory serves was, "ignorant, stupid or insane". The one I chose for you will remain private.

  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is that a jack rabbit sitting at the bottom of the stairs? IF so be sure PCGS labels it as such for grading.

  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And we wonder why this hobby is in the doldrums... you guys are chasing off fresh blood. Most of us didn't start out collecting five figure pieces.

  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cameonut2011 said:
    And we wonder why this hobby is in the doldrums... you guys are chasing off fresh blood. Most of us didn't start out collecting five figure pieces.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i5OrcxwFUA

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I do not think you are ignorant..............I think you are inquisitive and very good at getting many responses to your posts :smile:
    Keep learning....coins can be fun :neutral:

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  • ADGADG Posts: 443 ✭✭✭

    Yes and yes.

    The pardon is for tyrants. They like to declare pardons on holidays, such as the birthday of the dictator, or Christ, or the Revolution. Dictators should be encouraged to keep it up. And we should be encouraged to remember that the promiscuous dispensation of clemency is not a sign of political liberality. It is instead one of those valuable, identifying marks of tyranny.
    Charles Krauthammer

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1630Boston said:
    Keep learning....coins can be fun.

    "Start" comes before "keep". :p

  • Mission16Mission16 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭

    I don’t believe for a second that you think there’s anything unusual about that coin.
    You are just trying to be an attention whore, so I shall name you “Kardashicoin”

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    absolutely send to PCGS and get that puppy graded. Then post pics in the slab, can't wait.

    Good luck,
    bob :)

    Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SanctionII , instead of just dropping "disagrees " how about actually posting a comment?

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