It's not an error. Lyrics, listen, why don't you try your hand at collecting coins? Pick up some rolls of cents from your bank and see if you can find every date and mint mark. The Lincoln Cents start in 1909. The ones with the wheat backs go up through 1958. See if you can get all the wheat backs. Just bag the cents you're not saving, cash them out at a bank with a counting machine, then buy more rolls, and repeat. You'll learn a lot, too, as you do it, and I think you'll like it, it's fun. It's how most of us old timers, anyway, started. Start with cents. It just makes sense.
And if it is not an error, a plating issue per se... why wouldnt that have value as any other error? Its not that common at least not in all the coins i have gone thru.
Sometimes you just have to let the market decide it, Lyrics. Sometimes you can't figure the market out.
This question we have all heard before. If it is something you are interested in, you could start putting sets together of coins that have plating issues. In this wonderful hobby you can go in so many directions. I am one that has restarted putting set by date etc together. I do roll search for errors, but have not been very successful. Also concerning plating issues you can look it up pn line, or if it really interests you, buy some books on minting processes. Just a few ideas to kick around..
I have a Kennedy half dollar that is missing the clad layer on the reverse. It is rare because there are only two known to exist for this date and mintmark, but it is not necessarily unusual to find similar errors for the entire production run for all years and mintmarks of Kennedy half dollars. While this may mean there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of specimens available, your coin with a plating issue is one of probably millions that can be found in circulation since 1982 with the same problem. That is why they are only worth 1c each! It is also why I refer to them as "crappy Zincolns". I hope this makes sense. Chris
