I found an error wheat cent

It appears to be "struck through", which is fairly common. I would label it in a flip and set it in an "errors" page and find a better struck coin for the set. I don't think it has value enough to warrant the cost of submitting it for grading. The last "error" cent I submitted ran me about $60 total for the authentication, shipping, grading and insurance. So I don't send in anything that doesn't have a pretty high value or I need certified for a set. IMHO

gary

 

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I believe that is great advice! I hadn't realized that it costs so much for coins to be graded? I do have stamps sent out and it's usually a reasonable price, but then again, they are usually the pre-1900 "high value/denomination" stamps that I'll send out for a cert. Thank you for the heads up my friend.

 

I see where you are getting the struck through, but what is going on with the top left hand side of the N in one cent. It seems to be on an angle opposed to horizontal.

 

I know it looks as if it was just clipped off or something? it was struck like that.

 

I'm not sure....Maybe someone else could shed some light upon this?

 

DDO = Doubled Die, Obverse And as far as that 1953 proof cent, I'm not seeing it.
DDR = Doubled Die Reverse

 

Here is another odd one I found. This came out of my wife's Grandfather's coin collection. The back looks normal. I believe this is a lamination peel. I learned that from reading similar threads this forum so I hope I I.D.'d it correctly.

 

PMD for this new one you have, Post Mint Damage

 

You did, nice lamination error. Here's one I found some time ago.

 

Nice find ! Like others have said, struck through grease. Not as rare as one would hope. During the war yeasr of the mid 40s productiob was concentrating on the war effort. And the mint was turning out coins as fast as they could. So they got a lot of errors during those years, dirty and broken dies, etc. I enjoy these enough to start a binder with the different errors I can find. They make interesting collecting and even non collectors are interested in them.

Gary

 

I said "struck through" and should have said grease filled die. My bad, and I apologize. Sometimes my thinking and typing are not in sync.

 

Always one isn't there...lol

 

Wow! These look really bad considering! I wonder how common these actually were and if it still happens at all? Thank you for all the replies!

 

Actually, his latest posted coin is infact a mint error. It's called a lamination error, as rockdude has already noted. Though these errors don't bring much of a premium unless the lamination is massive and covers over 50-60% of the coin's surface, they're still desirable for their interesting characterists (like peeling metal!). ...We just don't want false info being spread.

-Brian