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Neat penny roll find...
elmeister
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I've been going through penny rolls, pulling wheats, looking for die varieties, and plugging away at a little circ. penny book the past few weekends... mindlessly hypnotic but it's fun and keeps me out of trouble for a couple hours on end...
The last box I opened had a whole bunch (just about a roll) of BU 1975s... nothing special BUT this little guy was tucked in there...
pretty cool little planchet flaw... I like that you can see the "S" still stamped below where the chunk is hanging...
my first error... makes me want to keep cracking rolls b/c you never know what you'll find!
as a side note, one of my students (8th grade) has been getting more and more into coins this year.. he loves pennies so I told him to go to the bank, get a few rolls, and see what he can find... so he borrows $10 from his mom and starts cracking rolls... comes in the next day w/ about 25 wheats incl. a 1909, 1909 VDB (both in F-VF), couple from the teens, and a pair of BU RD 1956 issues. I was shocked and he's getting hooked...
The last box I opened had a whole bunch (just about a roll) of BU 1975s... nothing special BUT this little guy was tucked in there...
pretty cool little planchet flaw... I like that you can see the "S" still stamped below where the chunk is hanging...
my first error... makes me want to keep cracking rolls b/c you never know what you'll find!
as a side note, one of my students (8th grade) has been getting more and more into coins this year.. he loves pennies so I told him to go to the bank, get a few rolls, and see what he can find... so he borrows $10 from his mom and starts cracking rolls... comes in the next day w/ about 25 wheats incl. a 1909, 1909 VDB (both in F-VF), couple from the teens, and a pair of BU RD 1956 issues. I was shocked and he's getting hooked...
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Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
it's tough to tell from the picture but in hand you can see a darkened streak extending through Lincolns head and ending above the "E" in Liberty (about even w/ his ear) where the planchet is a different color... this "damage" is at the end of that streak...
no idea how it all happened or how that piece stayed attached (esp after being run though a rolling machine at some point and seeing some circulation)... it's hanging on by a thread but fits back into the depression perfectly...
is that S raised or recessed?
Neat find.
Edit: if it was PMD the metal couldn't have been peeled away without removing any indication of the underlying stamped letter.
it's a simple lamination on
a struck coin. Not PMD.
Improper metal mixture led
to the planchet flaking or
peeling - in this case, the
process was 'completed' after
the coin was struck.
-matt
I was noticing the "S" that resides between the intact U and T. It is not deformed. The hanging piece is flatish. This leads me to believe it was struck this way instead of gouged out. Gosh I sure am smart when I already know the answer!
It also shows what happened to TRUST in the government after the Vietnam and Watergate eras, too, huh.
Cool find!
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.