Lincoln Cent "error" what type?

Again,you have nothing. You keep trying to disprove members who are here really trying to help people. Why are you even on this forum then since you obviously have all the answers and don't take anyones advice? YOU HAVE NOTHING. A penny that has been put under a sander it looks like. Really starting to think you do this because you need some kind of attention that you don't get in your normal life.

 

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Omg. My mind feels teached... Have the mods compared IP addys yet?

 

One word. Troll!

 

It's just the same guy again. Just playing games. It's interesting how his proper English fades in and out.

 

Oh the carnage, the brutality !

 

If you think that's an error, I can make more for you if you wish. I'll value them at 30 dollars per coin but since it's you, I'll only charge you 20 dollars per coin. How many do you want to buy? Wait, don't tell me yet. I'll sweeten the deal. If you buy them one at a time I'm already giving you a discount and selling them to you for the low price of only 20 dollars each, but if you buy five at a time I'll sell five for only 90 dollars! That's a ten dollar savings! But wait, there's more! I'll even throw in a brand new heavily circulated genuine dollar bill for every five PMD "errors" you buy! Hold on, I'm not done yet! If you promise to tell a friend, but ONLY if you promise, I'll also throw in a few scrapings off of a silver quarter. All of that for only NINETY DOLLARS!! How can you go wrong? Act now!

 

Now that's a shamWOW of a deal if I've ever heard one

 

I would say the coin spent some time stuck in the tract of an automatic door. When I began to collect errors, oh so many years ago now. I refused to let myself call a coin an error unless I could explain what happened to it in the process of manufacturing it. If I couldn't say exactly what occurred in the minting process, I would then assume that it wasn't an error.

I wanted every different looking coin to be an error so badly, I would read and reread every book and article on the minting process I could find, determined to always explain where in the process it got messed up.

I suggest you do the same.

 

Am I the only one that finds 3 pages on this absurd. I have no idea whether the OP is trying to bust the chops of people here or not, but I do know that a single reply saying it is post mint damage would have been sufficient.

Wouldn't the energy be better spent posting a real mint error and soliciting comments and discussion. This area has gradually devolved into a virtual swamp with very little worth reading. Too bad.

 

Bob?

 

Agreed--and for as long as I remember there's been this absurd aspect to error collecting. I recall several decades ago, there was an "error" book published that put a ridiculously high value on every routine blemish of the minting process. Adding to that misinformation, unscrupulous dealers have marketed worthless "errors" like die chips and deterioration as "collectible" coins of value. Then throw in a few genuinely valuable errors/varieties, and you create the illusion that everyone is going to strike it rich by checking their pocket change. I wish it were so easy!

Of course, I'm saying things you already know. Asking questions isn't a bad thing--I know I have a lot to learn from experienced collectors here. It gets absurd whenever someone stubbornly hammers away at the illusion that their ordinary (or damaged) coin is an error of unfathomable value. It's completely irrational, and an exasperating waste of energy--akin to chasing UFOs with butterfly nets. In the time it took to read this thread (or write this reply), I could have found a genuine die variety/error on eBay.

 

This is what I did in the very beginning on post #3.. I wanted to avoid all this but it got out of hand. Oh well

 

Was it this book?
I have one ​

 

This

 

Spadone did a lot to popularize error collecting. Unfortunately, most of the more important errors in his book were fakes (including all 3 of his 43 coppers).

 

Yes--I think that was the same book, except mine had a red cover (not the real Red Book lol). As a kid, that book got my hopes up so high, later to be dashed by reality, that I was turned off to error/variety collecting for 25 years...

 

He had different covers for each edition... and welcome back to error collecting!

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Looks like a "Craftsman belt sander error"

 

This doesn't apply to the troll that started this thread. He is under no illusion about the coin. He is just trolling the 9 levels of numismatic hell that manifest themselves in an error forum for self-entertainment purposes.

 

we all know the case is worth 50x that of the coin. Rather then 4 pages of non~cents, just tell him to send it in for grading, and post it on ebay. That way we can all see how much its really not worth.