1961 D - Multiple Errors… What do i Have?

I know nothing about coin collecting, but my son and I bought an old collection with a bunch of wheat pennies at a garage sale over the weekend. This caught my eye. Seem to be all kind of errors, but i’m hoping for an education as to what kind and if this is valuable in any way?

The coin seems really small compared to a normal one, almost doesn’t have edges at all. On the back you can clearly see double striking with a rotation. Completely missing “In God We Trust” up top. Also completely missing the L in Liberty on the front.

Can’t seem to find much about it online.

Note: it is more of a bronze color… was trying to get good pictures of the images using a flashlight which makes it look more silver in color.

Any collective wisdom from the group would be appreciated!

 

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Hi Adam, and welcome to CoinTalk!

The features you're seeing on this cent are damage that occurred after it was minted. See how the second Memorial image on the back is incuse (indented)? That happens when another coin gets pounded into it, with a hammer or a vise. The concentric circles on the obverse (front) are also damage, probably from a spinning tool. It's hard to be sure what took off the rims (and maybe some of the edge as well?), but that was likely also from a tool -- someone may have put this on a lathe or something.

There are other members here who specialize in error collecting, and I'm hoping one of them will post some references for you to check out.

Enjoy going through the collection, and be sure to post anything else interesting you find!

 

Makes sense - so much for that! Appreciate the reply.

 

As said before, the coin is an error, but there are coins around that era that may still be rare!

 

Hello.
Good to have you here and for you sharing your Cent. Unfortunately it is not a mint error of any kind.

Since you are new just keep this in mind..
Just because something looks different, weird or strange it does not automatically make it a mint error. There are plenty of ways coins can be damaged or altered post mint. Meaning during circulation.

It's a vise job. Another cent was squeezed into it leaving a backwards and incused lettering appearance. Someone created that alteration. It didn't occur during the minting of the Cent.

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Mr. Ed - specializing in the collecting and attribution of mint errors since 1985.

 

That is NOT a mint error.

 

If you are evil enough, you could advertise it on ETSY, people on there will believe it is an error. ETSY people has more fakes than the China Catalog. IMO.

 

I feel like I’m old-fashioned in a world gone mad, but I believe that wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it and right is right even if no one is doing it

 

Definitely foul play on that Abe

 

When a bunch of errors usually means messed with

 

That’s a no no. You need to keep your creds

 

Enjoy the gift

 

Your cent was damaged after it left the mint. Not an error and nothing in the coin minting process could cause a coin to look like this.
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