Strange Lincoln Cent Mint Error?

1.5 Pence

 

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What is so different about the San Francisco Zoo?

 

Looks like a good deal. Will you take $7 million?

 

One of the richest cities in the world has a completely unfunded zoo which has almost exclusively Mexican immegrants with lots of children visiting it. Silicon Valley hipsters couldn't care less about funding it or visiting it as it is on the far side of town in the poorest neighborhood, not far from the dunes on the pacific ocean coast line on the west shore of the city. The tiger exhibit was a large open range with a medium size mote and small fence to protect the tiger. And then the few hipsters that show up, often in a drucken stupper, tease all the animals mercifully, which they no doubt did to the tiger which then made a huge 29 foot leap to attack the drunken loudmouths.

You can only push a tiger so far with hazing in an ill equipted ugly underfunded zoo.

 

No .. for 7 million I'll sell you exclusive copies of those neat photographs I took, autographed by the photographer, of the actually coin. Consider this carefully because the photograph detail far exceeds what the human eye can see the actual coin.

 

Wow, it's the famous Lincoln moon landing tribute. I thought they were all destroyed at the mint prior to release.

A little history of the coin. The coin was commissioned to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the landing on the moon. It was put on the Lincoln cent because some government idiot thought that Lincoln made the famous speech challenging NASA to land a man on the moon within a decade. It wasn't until some genius coin collector pointed out the fact that Kennedy made that speech to the bureaucrats that they finally realized their mistake. After an initial run of 200 billion coins, the mint destroyed them to hide their mistake. Ruben, in his cunning ways, rescued one of the coins as a treasure for numismatists the world over to enjoy. Good job Ruben, you are a credit to the hobby.

 

Wait...what?

 

Neil gave it too me just before he died last week.

 

Looks like a round ice cream sandwich half eaten.

 

I do not think that is a mint error at all and i definitely would not waste a grading companies time. I have seen other coins that have similar edges. They appear to be corrosive marks to me based on the pic. Plus the fact that it looks like it was found on the ground and run over about 5k times. I would place it in my cull bag...

 

eh - I had a great answer but some things are best not posted. It was caught in a supermarket conveyabelt. Think about that next time you get your finger suck in between the rubber and the rollers.