Find of a lifetime!

Hi I'm a coin roll searcher I go to my local banks and buy 50 dollars worth of pennies to look though every week for fun been doing so for a cuople years. As I was going thought my pennies I found a penny with a whole extra letter that sholdent be there at all it reads in gods we trust and as I tilt the coin I found a second error the s shape expands and touches the tip of the w something I can't expline unless u see the coin in person and Tilt it back n forth here are some pictures I'll post major one of a kind error if not a new discovery coin thanks.

 

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Hate to burst your bubble....But that is just a plating blister. Incredibly common in copper plated zinc cents. Not a "major error" or "new discovery".

 

Plating bubble...My God these coins are pathetic..

 

How many bubbles are in the perfect shape of a perfect letter in the perfect spot? it's not touching lincons head rim or either the D in God or the W in we I already had a coin shop see it and they said it's not a bubble or playing issues even low balled me I even showed it to coin world editors and they said they will publish this coin I seen many errors I have heard and seen 100s of playting and bubble issues but never in the shape of a letter if any of u can find one online please send me pictures of one that is in a letter shape thanks.

 

Has anyone, outside of mint sets, actually ever seen any 1983's that were half way decent? Even original rolls were pretty bad.

 

If you think your "S" is "the perfect shape of a perfect letter" you are better at fooling yourself than I am at fooling myself!

 

Not necessarily a simple answer to a coin with complex visable issues. But indeed take ALL opinions in mind when coming to your own conclusions View attachment 863902 View attachment 863902

 

I'm only going to try this once but in the end, you believe what you will. Ever since the Mint started to plate cents in 1982 they have had nothing but trouble with the process. It has not been corrected to this day. Plating issues can take on all sorts of weird looks. Linear bubbles can travel across the entire coins. Hundreds of bubbles can be on a coin and look like letters and numerals if you stare at them long enough. Zinc rot is a disaster to these cents and you will see exploded numerals and letters where the thin plating wears or is not adhered to the surface correctly. You will not get a different answer here, at least from anyone knowledgable, that will change the fact that your coin is damaged. Most dealers do not study errors in a way that would make them experts. They mostly sell errors as a sideline. If a dealer offered you more than one cent then he was doing you a favor, and I'm not being snarky. If Coin World has offered to do an article on your coin, then take them up on it. But the truth, though hard to take, is the answer will remain the same. This is damage after it left the Mint.

 

Uh, no, they didn't.

 

Maybe, as Kurt would say, this is all part of the current edjamucation problem in this country.

 

Thank you all for your thoughts I will definitely take coin world's offer of publishing it but in the end I won't know till I send it in for grading and authentication to pcgs or ngc if they say what you all are saying I'll take that as an answer but if they say otherwise I can tell you all I told u so! Like I said u all would have to see the coin in person to see the second issue I stated about when u tilt it the very tip of the s shape "bubble" as u all say it is expands and touches the w in a perfect lining formation coinsededs? Anyway you all have a great Christmas.

 

@J.s. are you related to young mag?

 

poke it with a toothpick.

 

I have poked it already with a toothpick and it's solid and hard like like a solid letter if it were a bubble it would sink in if I poked it or peel off the plating with a toothpick in which it did not.

 

Maybea so don't no bcus i am diklictik

 

That's a plating blister, which can occur in any shape or size anywhere on a Zinc Cent. The first Zinc cents appeared in 1982 but it wasn't until 1983 that production went full tilt. 1983 cents ate notorious for plating blisters.

Zinc is a poor material to use as a coin. You can even see Zinc rot occurring on your coin in the word LIBERTY.

The value of this coin is one cent. I'd spent it before it rots away to nothing.

 

Please do let us know. Most people that threaten to show us, disappear never to post again..

 

Maybe it’s just me, but there are times when I miss the period.