The "I think I discovered something" thread.

TwoSides2aCoin · March 28, 2012 11:21PM

This may end up strange, crazy, amazing or funny... likewise, it's not actually meant to be a "laughing" matter. Post a coin found and kept because you weren't sure if it was unique, rare, scarce , error, or extremely valueable.
Just post it. Let's have fun with "discovery".
I have a few embarassing stories and might even get some photos.

USMarine6 · March 28, 2012 11:39PM

ok ill play. let me start off by saying i am new to collecting so i might sound like an idiot. I have what looks like an large cent. the reverse of it looks like a early large cent but on the obverse there is a picture of a lighthouse with the lettets J E B to the west, north , and east of it reprectively and then in another circle there are the letters S T K S H T W S. It comes in at 9.1 grams and there is no date on it. ive had it for about a year now and this thread got me thinking about it. sorry but i cant get photeos good enough of the coin. any info would be great

1tommy · March 29, 2012 12:03AM

I have 4 such coins collected over the years 3 i have no clue pmd or after this one is a rotated reverse found in a bank box last year. My first one after searching for years and was told there not really that rare? Enjoy i the pictures are not good but you can get the jest flipping top one over shows bottom ones dirrection of roatation, Not very good pics...............

Dentuck · March 29, 2012 12:21AM

I discovered a rotated-die Washington quarter back in 1989.

Remember how everyone was inspecting all their pocket-change quarters
that year, looking for the "No P" variety? (Most likely struck from a grease-filled die.)

Well, I didn't find a "No P," but I found something just as neat. A 1989 Washington
quarter struck 45 degrees rotated.

Alan Herbert wrote it up in Numismatic News.

joeykoins · March 29, 2012 12:23AM

1tommy, I found exactly, what you have there! 1987 Kennedy. Mine was rotated about 180 degrees.Amazing when I found it! I was so excited,boy. This was the coolest rotated coin I've ever found. So I thought it was, until I hurried to show my favorite coin dealer. He(Joe Rizdy) The pro, that he is, took my coin and threw it on the glass counter. Guess what happened? the coin SPLIT into two parts! WoW.I found out it was a "magician coin".I was shocked and disappointed,at the same time.So 1tommy I would double check yours.

It's only worth a dollar or two.

lasvegasteddy · March 29, 2012 12:32AM

i'll play too...,
so i'm cashing in sum loose change at a coinstar right
well this quarter drops in the reject bin...silver doesn't pass me
i scoop it out and try to have it reprocessed again with other rejects
dang quarter drops in the reject bin again so this time i look it over.
nada-nothing-zip seems off....well color a lil but hey its a 1994 quarter lord knows "here in vegas" where it coulda been
ok i tell myself one last try as now its the only one refusing to hop in the coinstar chamber of death
sure enough...last try...it plops out into the reject bin
so now...i'm like ok you really didn't wunna go
it sits in my lil raw box of..."oneday i'll send this off" to see if it's a foreign planchet or struck on a nickel planchet
it's a lil skinny on thickness and i just don't have a scale to weigh on micro weights plus rim wasn't struck up at all...just kinda rounds off
anyone care to study or research it...my pm is on...

here's my lil quarter that refused to be a "coinstar kid"
so yeah...i think i found "some coins refuse the coinstar drop of death"

1tommy · March 29, 2012 12:52AM

Dropped mine and it didn't split

Here is a 1956 quarter 10 percent reverse lamination error and I noticed it was also a B Type. Still keep thinking it should be worth something, but the grading fees for errors is such I have been told not to submit. Enjoy tom

Hotfootspin · March 29, 2012 1:36AM

<< <i>ok ill play. let me start off by saying i am new to collecting so i might sound like an idiot. I have what looks like an large cent. the reverse of it looks like a early large cent but on the obverse there is a picture of a lighthouse with the lettets J E B to the west, north , and east of it reprectively and then in another circle there are the letters S T K S H T W S. It comes in at 9.1 grams and there is no date on it. ive had it for about a year now and this thread got me thinking about it. sorry but i cant get photeos good enough of the coin. any info would be great >>

This sounds like a Masonic Penny. They are not hard to come by, but each lodge or branch
or whatever they call them, may have their own, so it's possible to find a bunch of different
ones.

Oh, and Google is your friend ...
http://www.google.com/search?q=S+T+K+S+H+T+W+S

Thanks,
Mark

USMarine6 · March 29, 2012 3:20AM

ya hotfoot i would have to agree it is a masonic coin. The letters should be reed from 12 oclock and not 6 like i had them listed

Billet7 · March 29, 2012 4:13AM

Was roll searching the other day and found a 1973-S Lincoln with no face!!! It's bright and shiny UNC all the way round (decently struck too,) but lincoln's entire head is devoid of any detail, absolutly flat-as-a-pancake! I'm guessing grease-filled die or something like that. Way cool! I'm thinking of sending it in for certification just because of the coolness factor!

Anyone know how often this happens? I'm sure mine's not the only one.

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