Young numismatist in training

I try to train them young. This one has her own 5 lb bowl of modern foreign coins but she always goes to the good stuff.

My coin of the night pic

 

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Cute!!

How did that error get RD?

 

The copper part is red. I have another from pcgs where the penny is double struck and the zinc shows.

 

awesome. both are awesome.

 

cute kid. cool error coin.

 

How old is the princess boss?

 

For those boring slabs, to beat out My Little Pony, is something. Buy the kid some nice colourful blocks, or maybe lego. Great Error.

 

Now I know how the slab faces get all those awful scratches in them.......Just kidding....kind of. Sometimes when I buy a slab on ebay and it arrives I wonder how they get so dang scratched up because the pics didn't show it. If I buy a slab in person and it's all scratched up I won't buy it unless the price is so good I can get it re-slabbed. Just food for thought. For me it makes it hard to enjoy a great coin with a glaring scratch on the holder.

But anyway, I'm glad you are encouraging youth participation but I suggest low grade, low value raws for that. Or put them in cheap Coin World Premier slabs like I do for my 1yr old nephew so I don't worry about him swallowing a coin.....LOL. But they are your coins to enjoy and share so do what you want.

 

Getting the coin re-slabbed won't guarantee the holder won't be scratched.

All of the grading services do not handle the parts of their slabs very carefully before and after encapsulating the coin. A dealer I know has told me that the coins coming directly from the grading services are all scratched so it is not entirely the fault of dealers and collectors mishandling them.

Scratches on the slab won't stop me from buying a coin I like especially if it is a coin I am going to crack out. I use a very good plastic polish to remove scratches. PM me and I'll tell you what I use.

 

when a Lincoln cent post 1982 is mutilated to this extent the thin layer of copper is removed and or displaced and the zinc is exposed. if you take wire cutters and cut a modern post 1982 cent you will see just how thin the copper layer really is. this is not toning. it is only the zinc.

 

4 years old

 

Ya, gotcha. I thought the entire coin had to be Red for the designation not just the copper parts.

 

My son will turn 4 in February.

 

How does an error like that come about in the minting process?

 

It is actually a bonded pair. It is two planchets struck into one. I'm sure a more educated collector can explain further

 

That has got to be the most mind boggling error I have ever seen slabbed.

 

Don't they have a strainer at the mint, that lets single pennies through and keeps clumps like this behind? Maybe this was acquired through connections? I can't see it fitting in a roll of pennies.

 

My daughter will too.