Post and explain your "out of the ordinary" circulated US issue(s) or varieties

Cherrypickers might value this coin at $600, but I facilitated the sale of a VG10 earlier this year for thousands of dollars. I just found this one for myself. It's only the 2nd one I've ever personally found/picked. Been looking at every 1852 3cs I can find for 5 years, and have found just 2. Both polished, unfortunately.


1852 over inverted date!

 

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1934 silver or steel or something wheat penny. Don't know what is up with my penny it weighs 3.11 grams (same as a standard penny) when I first got it my friend scratched it to see if it was painted but it seems to be solid whatever metal it is. It does have a Freemason stamp on it on top of being a weird penny .can't find any thing online about 1934 pennys made like this , I've been trying to figure out some information for a long time View attachment 750946 "p

 

CBD, could you explain a bit more about why this coin and issue are special or unusual, please? Is it the date and issue or or 1852 over inverted date? Frankly, I don't even know what that means. Explanation, please? thanks.

 

Here's a thread link about the other one I found. Thought it was 4 years ago, but it was 3.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-cherrypicks-ive-never-found-until-now.260553/

There's not a lot of info about it out there. VERY few are straight graded. But an inverted 2 digit was struck, then the proper 1 digit struck over it. NGC describes it as the rarest variety for 1852. Bottom line: No one has seen the NGC MS61 example since it was certified. I have seen the PCGS VF35 example and have handled the PCGS VG10 example, which traded privately in November for thousands. They just aren't out there. Like I said, I've been looking at every 1852 3 cent silver for about 5 years trying to find them. And I've now found 2, both polished. @Paddy54

 

Also, there is only 1 currently on the market, and it's the first one I found... a PCGS AU details. I sold it for $600 before I knew the market value. The dealer that bought it from me has it listed for $7,500.

 

I get everything you're saying but it should not be that rare. There were 18 million 52s struck and only 125 obverse dies were used ( if I'm remebering Flymn and Zack correctly, might be 118).

 

Yes, but the inverted letter die may have only been an 1851 die repurposed. We just don't know. I think there are less than a dozen of these known.

 

for that date it lies to the right of the building.

 

In those days a penny would buy a drink in a tavern.

 

That guarantee is the reason that we discovered that the fakers are also faking the slabs. They put a fake coin in a fake slab and many people accept that as gospel.
Some people spotted that the coins were fake and demanded TPG refunds. They did not get them because those slabs were also fake.

 

Most unlikely, much more likely is the overdate was quickly noticed and the die pulled from use. In general you don't alter a die that is already been hardened and used.

 

If so, they must have been exceedingly quick about pulling the die. Worthy of more research for sure, but there are so few examples to study!

 

OK.. Flynn & Zach (The Authoritative Reference on Three Cent Silver Coins, 2010) says

109 obverse dies (so much for memory)

1852 RPD-005 is the invert of which the highest grade they've seen is the XF40 photographed for the book.


Also (https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/104.html)

(last sentence)

Somewhere I have a copy of the photos of the 3cs pages that Roger(?) posted

 

Does this mean the authors of the book did not take the NGC MS61 into account? I mean, the photos are on their website...

 

Have to check the date on the photos too. But that's what the 2010 book says. What's the URL?

 

https://www.ngccoin.com/variety-plus/united-states/three-cents/9672/815910/

 

All I can guess is that photo became available after the book was published.

 

I'd love to just see the coin in hand. But whomever found it and submitted it has not come forward.

 

@C-B-D I just won a 1852 in MS65. I checked for the re-punched "1", no dice. Mine is not one of them.

 

I saw a nice 65 in an old NGC holder pop up on eBay yesterday or maybe this a.m.