1979 one dollar coin mistake worth?

I have a 1979 one dollar coin mistake that I've never seen before online and I've been wondering if it's worth something and one of a kind or worth just like 5 bucks. Looks like a print over or a layer of something but the coin doesn't seem to have any damage to it other than a mistake when producing the coin. It's in the left side, and I just poster pic of back invade there anything else wrong. Thanks for looking and hoping to find some answers.

 

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Cool, I would say that is a major broken die.

 

Looks pretty cool - planchet lamination before the strike? No idea about price but someone on here will let you know!

 

Pics look like recessed area - or is that just raised lines around those areas from a broken die? My eyes are too bad to tell from the pics.

 

Thank you!! Your really keeping hopes up on something that may be valuable

 

There are lines, and between the lines it goes a little lower than the rest of the coin.

 

I'm going to say broke die as well, nice find!

 

My first thought was strike through but the details appear to be too sharp for that.. Could be though.

 

I don't know if it's noticeable in the pics but where the lines are it goes around where the mint mark is, and there's like a small part on the bottom left where there's lines that goes on top of coin.

 

So the mintmark is actually in a recessed area? Die breaks and missing parts of the die would cause raised areas (like raised crack lines and cuds) - or am I wrong?

 

It appears to be a die chip on her nose too, that would give credibility to a broken die.

 

So what would be a price on this, like a range between two numbers, I don't expect an exact price.

 

Do you know a reasonable price?

 

In a word, no. I'm not an avid collector of them, though I do have a few that I've kept from circulation finds because i think they're cool. The one you have is unique in that it is quite pronounced. You can go to ebay and search their completed sales and get an idea of value.

 

Hard to say about the price but there's two handy tips especially if you do plan to sell it

1) Good photos DO make a difference. Try to take it with macro zoom and not take it from an angle.

2) NEVER clean coins! Cleaning coins is similar to having yourself going through an acid bath - you get the idea. It damages the original surface and collectors will pay less.

 

We should probably come to a clearer consensus regarding what it *is* before deciding what it's worth. The imagery isn't clear enough to make any specific determinations, to my mind, aside the fact I'm having a hard time imagining something happening postmint to do this. Which makes it worth approaching carefully and academically.

Two possibilities: die breakage of some sort, or some variant of a strikethrough. I'm leaning towards the latter, if only because of the regularity of the lines, but it's hard to imagine something capable of recessing the surface of the coin while transmitting the strike so cleanly. On the other hand, it's even harder to imagine a die this broken transmitting the strike so accurately. Further, consider the obverse is likely the hammer die, so such a complete break would likely answer the call of gravity and fall completely away.

 

Thank you guys for all the help, I'll try to post a much better picture and maybe put it up on eBay once I get an idea about the price range

 

Looks like a strike through to me, a rather large one. It does have some value but I can't say how much.

 

Well...the low end of the range is definitely $1.

 

I feel what you have is a SBA dollar that has been struck through the delaminated clad layer of another SBA dollar. The curved boundary of the recess matches the curve of a dollar planchet though the curve is in two sections.
In the OP's photos that are shot at less of an angle you can see the details of the devices are muted and what I would expect to see from an area struck through a layer of coin metal. Note the details left after my Lincoln cent ( In my photo ) lost a layer of coin metal especially note the TY of Liberty.
1956-D Lam3 by stoneman227, on Flickr

The clad layer has fallen out leaving the recess you now see.