Bronze 1983 cent?

The video quality of my phone is a little better than the photos.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e8O4iCDFGAY

Does this look like a real bronze 1983 cent. Weight 3.1 grams which is a good start.

 

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Interesting. I'm not saying that it is a Transitional Mint Error but it could be.
The weight is correct at 3.1 grams.

Buy when weighing it, why do you place a piece of paper under the Cent?

I would send it in for attribution. That would be neat to be an authentic transitional error and it would have a nice premium!

Thanks for sharing.

 

You can see that the scale is tared at 0.0.
The gloves are a little overboard.
I say get it authenticated.

 

nice find - keep the story going as so many on here in the future if you sell or keep get it authenticated ....so many turn into - you never know happened???

 

Well the gloves aren't just for that penny. After handling nearly 10 million pennies. You see from the gloves how disgustingly dirty these are. So it's just part of the hobby now.

 

The next step is getting guidance from PCGS on how to properly fill out their submission form. I think it's more complicated than a 1040 Tax form with all the schedules included.

 

Never done one. I can walk into ANACS and submit a few.

 

If you’re convinced it is then it needs to be professionally graded.

 

God bless you. Great find

 

That would be amazing. And save me a decent bit of shipping and insurance costs.

 

I am working on submitting it to PCGS. Hope to put it in the mail before end of January.

 

Best wishes

 

nice

 

Mylar flips just arrived. One step closer.

 

This is one thing you need to get authenticated, but you could easily have a coin worth several thousand dollars. Low-end MS coins have been known to sell for 5 figures!

 

Made it to the post office finally, after only 3 weeks missing their weekend hours... Now just watching this thing snail mail its way across the continental US.

 

Best of luck to you. The consideration one needs is with the scale and the accuracy of the reading. On the video it appears to be a low accuracy one like for mailing, etc.
The verification company will probably be using a 0.000 scale AND they would calibrate their scale with a high precision weight as any scale can get out of accuracy range due to handling. They would be very careful with such a rare coin. Jim

 

Hey Jim.

Yeah i think my scale is 'accurate' enough where this coin was weighing significantly outside of the range of BU zinc pennies. And that along with the flick / drop on a table sound test. I was fairly confident the coin was real.

So yes, in my excitement, I did drop it on the table after flipping it for a ring test...

 

Again , Best Wishes!!

 

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