Hi everyone, I'm new to the collecting game and im trying to sponge up as much info as I can. I found this coin in a roll of pennys but with no mint marks what so ever, the coin is the same size as a penny other then it being slightly thinner. It's made out of copper and I was just curious as to what it is and if any value?
It looks to have spent most of it's life on the surface of a extremely busy parking lot. Nothing special. Spend it. Welcome to Coin Talk, a great place to learn.
I don't usually make these kinds of posts, but even if you are new to collecting, surely you've seen damaged coins before. Are you seriously telling us that you can't tell that the coin has bee badly abused in its lifetime? Maybe I better edit this to explain why I posted it. If anyone hasn't noticed, there are a lot of new names showing up lately. They always say the same thing, they are new to coin collecting, blah blah blah....and then they have what is obviously a PMD coin that anyone, even non-collectors, can tell has been damaged outside the mint. That user might post 1 or 2 more times and then disappear. As soon as they disappear another "new collector" shows up with an obvious PMD'ed coin, and so on and so on. I have a feeling someone is having fun (fun to them, a waste of time to me) doing this. One, maybe two different people.
Well, I don't really know that someone is doing this, but to me it seems highly likely. I mean a lot of these are so obvious. I'll make one up. Say someone comes here, says they are new to coin collecting and used their metal detector to dig this penny out of the ground and they post a picture of a penny that is heavily corroded and covered in grime from being in the ground for a few decades......and they want to know if its an error?? <---I just made that one up to use as an example of the types of posts I'm seeing by "new" users.
The public can be very, uh, uniformed. I would say, that with all of the jiberish on the internet, some website could say it was an error. Minimal research is not always a friend, but remember, there are Wiki/Ehow things that tell you how to clean coins, properly, so I would leave the OP alone, at least talk like that in PMs.
Also, OP(original poster) if it were a blank and were damaged, a non damaged blank could be worth 3-4. Since there is so much damage, it is likely not a blank and just beat to death, you would probably be lucky if it went through a coinstar. That is my guess
Eh, my nephew was 8 years old and showed me a penny that looked a lot like the one in the OP of this message. He knew nothing about coins yet he said looks like this had a grinder taken to it. But my point is, there are so many of these kinds of posts happening lately. They can't all be that misinformed as to not be able to tell an obviously damaged/abused coin. But whatever. I only wanted to post about it this one time. I'm done now.
You could make it a bit easy on yourself if you are tired of answering the same question then skip the blog. Bet you the op of this one wished you had
You obviously didn't read my first post. I said I don't usually post things like this. But I'm seeing a lot of this happening. Also, you could have just ignored my post. Thanks. Whatever. Bye bye.
Somebody give pennsteve a hug. Can't say that i disagree though, obviously this is a damaged post 1982 cent, and I wonder why anyone would spend the time to register and post images for this.
Everyone wants to score big with an error coin.They don't know what to look for hence the posting of stuff like this.
Seems to me like too many people now a days have a bad case of the gimme's that all. A better economy, coin prices for rareities, errors and new discoveries lower (instead of $1500 for a silver state qtr.) or in better coin days higher prices to keep the average joe from picking up the hobby and all this nonsense stops. Things aren't that way and now everyone wants that one home run so they can retire or live on easy street or even more provincial to put food on the table. So more people are taking a closer look at the most mundane things. Things like Antiques road show and tv coin shows don't help either. Any old vase on a shelf may be a ultra rare Wolfe von Pewterschmidt vase (made up before I get asked what that exactly is) and something that sat collecting dust is suddenly worth half a million or hey I have a 1964 Kennedy it must be a MS68 like the guy's on tv.
