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When a chewed up cent is actually an error, and grades!

ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Although the chewing up happened pre-strike.
Not mine, but pretty cool!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MINT-ERROR-No-Date-Cent-PCGS-MS-64-RD-Struck-50-Off-Center-on-20-Grain-Fragment/392041845125?hash=item5b4783d185:g:7OsAAOxyoVZTH328

Collector, occasional seller

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭

    I'll wait for Fred to chime in but me thinks $1,250 for this is exorbitant.

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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 13, 2018 5:44PM

    @WoodenJefferson said:
    I'll wait for Fred to chime in but me thinks $1,250 for this is exorbitant.

    Show me another one like it.

  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭

    Woodenjefferson says:

    "... me thinks $1,250 for this is exorbitant"

    And perhaps it is. Which may be why it hasn't sold. That's what is great about our free market system, and auctions in general. If someone wants it bad enough they will pay the price. But it won't be me.

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  • ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 13, 2018 9:46PM

    .....someone or something had chewed the bow tie :s so forget about the fantastic part ;)

    @BlindedByEgo said:
    Am I crazy or just stupid, but does this have a fantastic on the bow tie?

    Cool "coin", if one could call it that :D

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sweet !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭

    It kind of looks like a shark tooth or a veliciraptor claw from Jurassic Park. Cool!

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:

    @WoodenJefferson said:
    I'll wait for Fred to chime in but me thinks $1,250 for this is exorbitant.

    Show me another one like it.

    My next question: How did this get into circulation?

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice!

  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 6,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillyKingsley said:
    It kind of looks like a shark tooth or a veliciraptor claw from Jurassic Park. Cool!

    My grandson would agree. :)

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  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ErrorsOnCoins said:

    @WoodenJefferson said:
    I'll wait for Fred to chime in but me thinks $1,250 for this is exorbitant.

    Show me another one like it.

    regardless, I agree, seems expensive

    Frank

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting piece of copper...and no doubt a mint scrap.... That being said, the price is ridiculous... Cheers, RickO

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,843 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wonder if it is one of those "wink - wink errors" that a mint employee made in his spare time and took home in his lunch box. In view of the fact that it is made of copper and not zinc, it must be from 1982 or before.

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a legit normal error coin, not a 'made on purpose'
    or by accident error coin.

    As far as value, others have posted their thoughts
    on the price....I don't have anything else to add in that
    area.

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭

    Thank you Fred and I can understand you not shooting yourself in the foot as far as value goes.

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  • erwindocerwindoc Posts: 5,289 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How does something like that make it out of the mint??

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BlindedByEgo said:
    Am I crazy or just stupid, but does this have a fantastic on the bow tie?

    Cool "coin", if one could call it that :D

    I am so glad that someone with 2 previous posts did not post this. Call me crazy. BUT.......FANTASTIC BOWTIE........oooooohhhh!?!?

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

    @BillJones said:
    I wonder if it is one of those "wink - wink errors" that a mint employee made in his spare time and took home in his lunch box. In view of the fact that it is made of copper and not zinc, it must be from 1982 or before.

    I'm about 90% that it's a 1974.
    I'd recognize those 1974 steps anytime.
    But still a cool "coinlet", and yes, I agree with previous poster who said it looks like a shark tooth.
    And yes, I guess this one could have made it through the riddler rather easily.

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

    @Hydrant said:

    @BlindedByEgo said:
    Am I crazy or just stupid, but does this have a fantastic on the bow tie?

    Cool "coin", if one could call it that :D

    I am so glad that someone with 2 previous posts did not post this. Call me crazy. BUT.......FANTASTIC BOWTIE........oooooohhhh!?!?

    I am too poor with computers to do what I wanted to do with this.
    I wanted to put this fantastic bowtie on a large image of a Lincoln Cent but am too computer-stupid to do it. :)

  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I guess some people like some stuff that I don't understand. :s

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  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,928 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @erwindoc said:
    How does something like that make it out of the mint??

    I guess it would just make it into a cent bag and get shipped out.

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