Think of the travels a penny can take in 36 years ... pocket change, use in vending/toy machines, cash drawers, car seats, ground/floor, boy scouts experiments, etc.
That's what I'm saying. I'm able to see it better than I can impart in my pictures.There are actually 3 little grooves and it does look like a letter, or number or something. I have found the same kind of marks on the side lettering of 2 different Presidential coins now.
We all have that wonder I think, and I think even if you sent the coin to forensics testing, even they would probably have troubles figuring out what happened. If I were you I would do extensive research. Coinopp on YouTube does teach you a lot about variety errors. Make sure you also know the difference between proof coins and buisness strike coins. There are some proof coins that have errors that you will only find in proof coins or vice versa. And it would suck if you found what you thought was an error for a buisness coins, but you can only find in proof coins.
Yes, I was reading about proof and business strikes yesterday. I'll check that out on YouTube. Thank you.
Also one more thing. You should learn what are not errors. You should learn what are common. Here are a few coins that I thought were errors and are not. Hope you find this good info with this the first 79 penny is not off struck, its edges are flattened due to tight packing and pounding around. 3rd one down is probably an art project. Also if you find a penny that seems to have a grey color, it's just a scientific experiment. Let's just say you are lucky and it's a penny struck on an aluminum cent (with 70s date) chances are you have an illegal coin and the government will take it away. Keep that in mind
And now a 2011 Ylysses S. Grant! The vertices marks are the Van Buren and the horizontal ones, the Grant.
Haha yeah and I thought for sure something like that first picture, was an error haha. I saw so many of em. The smushed edge. I couldn't perceive that those edges are fine and is easily smushable. The errors I like ( because I can find them more) are grease filled dies. (Missing/distorted numbers and letters due to grease or dirt and dust) 1957 d are notoriously found with filled dies on the dates. I have two. I think paddyman here in cointalk has two and so does someone else he knows lol!! I keep them all. Even the ones in that are not errors so I can refer back to them. And some of em are cool like this one I've never seen anything like it online other than one other one, and it didn't have it like this penny. Only one little spot on the penny looked like this whole penny. So some non errors are still unique sometimes. Someone took the time to make this Lincoln either have a mask or pulled a reverse Michael Jackson haha sorry .. only a joke. But ya here are my three grease filled die errors. (Common)
another cool error ( in my opinion) is where the head of this coin gets pounded through the tails. It's common error. But to me it's cool you can see a rough outline of Lincoln on the back.
can't see the details in that pic but I'll tell you what though, you are gonna find a lot more of dead ends till you do extensive research. Sometimes even weight of a coin matters. Like if you know a specific date should weigh 3.11 grams but you find one that's 3.0 it's probably struck on copper planchet. One was recently found 1982 d
Copper planchet I mean. You wouldn't know unless you had a gram scale. Planchet is basically the core it starts from. 1982 had a zink planchet. There are only one known example of 1982 d struck on copper planchet. Why it's money maker to know what years have weight variations. Also there are known examples of a proof quarter being struck on a buisness struck
I think it would be impossible for a real penny to be .01 grams. lol I don't think your reading in grams
