At The Coin Show Today

Walked by a dealers table who specialized in errors. I have said before that errors are not really my thing but I saw that he had a wheat cent struck on a dime planchet and it intrigued me. It would have been a silver planchet…. He was busy with other folks so I didn’t have the chance ask him about it….. What is a coin like that valued at roughly?

 

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Here are 3 sold by Jon Sullivan on his website
Sullivan Numismatics, Inc

 

Cool, never heard of that error type before.

 

I rather figured that would have to be a four figure coin.

 

Yeah. I thought also. Hey! You could have put him in a figure four head lock and walked away with it, LOL.

 

Definitely a 4 digit coin.

 

Wrong planchets errors are one of my favorite type of errors. Here are a couple of my wrong planchet errors.

 

Nice!

Here are two from my collection


I acquired both of them from Fred Weinberg

 

Those two 1943s... wonder how many times they got spent by people thinking "oh, another one of those weird new silver pennies"?

I also wonder: which is more common, a 1943 cent struck on a copper cent planchet, or one struck on a silver dime planchet? I'm not sure the struck-on-silver error is any more common than struck-on-copper, but look at the price differential!

 

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Noooooooo!

 

Could have been an unauthorized "experiment" by a mint employee. Maybe thought, "I wonder how different a silver cent would look from a steel cent."

Mike