1990 penny edge error?

hello everyone i am new to 2 things....

1)these great forums
2)coin collecting! (love to find pennies!)

and today i have come across something i am kinda excited about (hope its something good)

i picked up a coin at work today and even at arms length i could tell the edge of the penny had an error. i went home scanned it zoomed in and it def has an error.

is it worth anything?
is it rare?

thanks!

here's link to pic (cant get pic to upload)

http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab162/pennycollect/question pennies/thinedge-19900001.jpg

 

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I don't believe you have an error. what makes you believe you do ?

 

Looks to me like it's slightly off center. I see those all the time. There's only a premium if it's more, as in part of the design missing

 

i think he is refering to the top rim being different. sorry but it is not an error. keep looking you will find something

 

it's actually a fairly common error considering the date, but it's always fun to find any kind of error in pocket change, even if it's common. Now if the date on that coin was post Y2K, than you'd have a coin worth a couple bucks, but since it's a fairly common error, it's probably worth 15 cents at most.

 

well look at the edge around the coin. as start in front of the face and look around you will see the edge gets a lot thinner

 

im not too much worried about the cost just wanted to know if i found an error =) like i said im new

 

I know what you mean, it's very exiting to find errors, especially as a new collector. It seems like most people responding to this thread seem to think it's not an error, but imo, it's a very minor error that's common for pre Y2K coinage. It's caused by the planchet (i.e. blank coin), spilling over the edge of the side dies that keep the coins in place while the coin is being struck. Since Y2K, the mint has made their quality control for coins more strict than they were prior, so that error isn't happening nearly as often as it was prior to Y2K.

Nowadays, the most common errors are surface errors with the state quarters, but you have to be lucky to find them because they tend not to travel too far apart because once the error is discovered, that's when the rush comes in to collect those quarters and than after awhile, the rush dies down and all the error coins of that type are in collectors' hands, case in point, the 'extra leaf' error with the Wisconsin D quarter, the majority of them were discovered at one bank, than once the word got out, many people started rushing into the market, I was one of them, in fact, I paid $30 per roll for three rolls of Wisconsin D quarters hoping to find an extra leaf error, but didn't find any, but of course, I was a pretty impulsive coin buyer at that time.

 

thank you Coinman_Ben im glad for your great response =) hope to see more of you

 

Slight off strike,error yes,lotsa money,No, cool find tho

 

haha thanks

 

Sure is a long sentence...

 

There does seem to be a difference of opinions about whether to call "Minor" errors error coins. The difference is value. I suppose those that make their living have to show why their errors are different and more valuable than these minor errors so they just treat them as non errors.

I propose that teaching the excited finders of these minor errors about the differences is far more profitable than dismissing them and their finds because of the low value. Arrogance is expensive.

ps - This is directed at the dismissive contributors and not at the multitude of helpful educators on this site.

 

Gravity-

Welcome to coin talk! What you are seeing was caused by a misaligned die. They are very common and since this is well within the Mint's tolerances is not considered an error. Keep searching though and you'll find something soon enough. Thanks for sharing it with us.

 

Hi, gravity! It's hard for me to tell, but it could be a "finned rim". It's not uncommon to see these, but they are interesting to keep in a collection of miscellaneous errors.

Chris

 

Gravity-
With misaligned dies such as this, what you want to look for is misalignment that is so extreme that it cuts off part of the design. It's the same with off-center strikes. These are very similar in appearance(when minor) to misaligned dies. The difference is that misaligned dies affect one side of the coin, and off center strikes affect both sides.

 

I've founf quite a few of the lately here in Los Angeles...in the last 2 weks I've got back as change the following pennies with the same type of "error".

1974-D
1983-D
1987 (no mint mark, and for some reason the 7 appears to be taller than the 9).
2002-D
2007-D
2007-D (real nice looking coin)
2010-D (with the shield)

I think the only reason I kept these was that they were just a little unusual...so I tossed them into a sack....yep, a sack.

 

Mental note to self...don't take a pain pill and try to spell anything correctly.

 

Or if you do take that pill put in the note to use spell check.

 

Exactly......I just wrote that on my laptop screen so I don't forget.

I have to leave in a bit and go down to the hospital for the 52nd (or 53rd) day in a row..I.V. antibiotics. (I have a PICC line installed).
I had my 5th back surgery on Feb 16th with a morphine pump installation, but the post-surgery infection was so severe i had to go in 3 weeks ago and have the pump surgically removed...that was back surgery number 6, and i'm back where I started.