Error & Variety Lincoln Cents found roll searching? Post em

While roll searching in 1970 I found this 1969-S base of bust cud. It is listed in the Cud Book as LC-69s-04.

I'll never forget the find. It looked like someone had hit the coin with a hammer but upon closer inspection, the metal was raised & not incuse. My local coin dealer offered me $8 which was quite the profit for a coin costing only 1-cent. I never sold it & still have the original coin in my collection. [Today, I have several examples of this error].

Thanks for letting me share & please post error and varieties that you have found roll searching. I'll post some more E)V cents I've found roll searching as soon as I can find the photos.

 

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Die chips, RPMs, mechanical doubling, and DDOs

A couple years back I bought a cigar box full of EF to MS wheat cents for 3 cents each. The owner had just thrown good looking (red) wheats into this box and he put normal (brown) wheats elsewhere. Unfortunately, he had already sold all his boxes of brown wheats before I caught up to him. The cigar box ended up containing mostly AU coins distributed between 1950 - 1958. There were virtually no S mint coins. After inspecting a couple of the coins the microscope, I got overwhelmed by all the die chips, RPMs, mechanical doubling and DDOs. Here are some examples from the lot.

 

There seemed to be lots of BIE die chips on the coins dated 1955 & 1957.

 

There were a plethora of RPMs but this one on the 1953-D was the most dramatic I found.

 

In 2008 our member grnwavdav found this same Error cent while roll searching! Here is a link to rrnwavdav's previous CT thread:
http://www.cointalk.com/t40591/

 

Got this cud from a box a while ago. Sorry the pics are old.

 

I just sold a $50.00 bag of wheat cents on ebay. Never had the time to look at them. I'm wondering now. Hmmm?

 

I found this one about a month or so ago. I posted it in the Lincoln thread in the US coins forum but I thought I'd post it here too, now that we have an official Lincoln variety and error thread. (yay!!!)
It's an ear!

 

Post your E)V cents

In 2008 I was searching through a coffee can of cents & found these three coins.

The copper colored 1988 cent appears normal & weighs 2.54 grams
The gold colored 1988 cent appears abnormal and weighs 2.46 grams
The gold colored Bahamas coin (two of them) weigh 3.09 grams each.

I have placed the three coins in the same un-labeled flip so it will probably drive my heirs nuts when they find it.

Read more: http://www.cointalk.com/t43699/#ixzz1lznThdx8

 

Here are some I've found that I have pictures of.

 

I recognize the first two RPMs but what's going on with the third coin? Is the reverse normal?

 

The reverse is normal. I think it is a capped die.

 

This weekend I bought a couple 1990 Mexico $100 that have been broadstruck on center by a capped die. I plan to post photos in the error forum today. (It's not a roll find).

 

This one came from searching 5 dollars worth of bank rolls. I am leaning towards AMD. What do yall think AMD, Die diteriation, DDR? I'm looking at the bottom of zero

Paul

 

I was given a box of rolled cents about a year ago now that consist almost entirely of S mint coins from 68-71 I think. I'll have to take a gander through them. So many times in the last year I've nearly just cashed them back in with the ones my kids go through.

 

'99 WAM

 

When you are searching for the WAM, what magnification do you like to use & what is your pick-up-point?

 

No magnification, I just look at the AM. Look through thousands of cents and it's pretty obvious when you're looking at a WAM instead of a CAM.

 

Your eyesight may be different but this one variety that I can actually see without magnification, and I am farsighted.
What I look for is the spacing between the M and the E. For myself that's the easier way to tell the difference between the CAM and the Wam.

After you've looked at enough of them it becomes automatic in telling the difference.