Need help identifying these pennies...

Thanks @Mikey Zee! Definitely looking forward to enhance my knowledge with the help of this forum!

 

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Hi @KurtS! I haven't had a chance to weigh it. Actually I don't even have a scale to do that but I can tell you that it is very light and thin. If I try to bend it I'm pretty sure it would bend rather easily. It is almost the thinnes of a chain pendant.

 

i believe the "rare" 1943 you are referring to is the 1943 copper. sold for something like 1.7 million.

 

Hi @bryantallard. Mine is not copper. It is a steel penny. Not worth anything as far as I can tell...

 

If you compare retail prices for 'steel pennies' (coin world retail price values
etc.), they have a value higher than a cent and in high grades can be offered for $1.00 or so...

 

Hi @jookey200. Here are a few pix of the quarter I was telling you about. Nothing special right?

 

I'm not calling you out or anything, but the internet has been around since 1969. The first connection between two computers happened at UCLA that year. Although until 1981 the public did not have access to internet that I know of. Back when you could search most of Google groups (use too be called Usenet) some of the results went all the way back to 1981. Just thought I throw that out there. Yes I'm a bit of a nerd.

 

The quarter is just a damaged coin.

 

Thanks for reminding me that. I thought the interenet was not made made available to the masses until the 90s. That's why my geek computer programmer of a brother still used the CB radio...

 

Thanks. That's what I imagined at first. Looks like as if had been placed on the tracks of the subway.

 

Hi enamel7. Is there a thread here in the forum about how to identify post mint damage coins that you could recommend me reading through? Will really appreciate it. Thanks.

 

Linked computer bulletin boards were publicly available back in the seventies. I've been online since I started with Compuserve back in 1980. I spent some time online before that on other peoples systems.

The 1950's cent appears to either be struck on a split planchet (split before strike) or just on a rolled thin planchet. Either way it IS an error coin.

 

Nope quarter looks PMD but the split planchette thin penny is a keeper!

 

Ever seen an old cyclone fence? That's your 1943-D, that's how they "turn." I have to say, though, that 1950-D has me going a little. The reverse I want to say is grease all over that sucker. The obverse looks to me to be an extreme struck-through, as I recognize those tracks, I have the same on earlier-dated cents. They have to be something. We need better pictures, though, really.

 

Hi @eddiespin. I've scanned them at 1200dpi... Attached. Maybe a scanned version is better than a pic?

 

I can see it a little clearer. Here, check out the obverse on this one. This is why I think yours is a struck-through error.

 

https://www.sullivannumismatics.com/productdisplay/anacs-195x-wheat-cent-split-planchet-strike-bu

 

That's awesome! On this one it looks as if Lincoln had a mohawk

 

Wait... What??!?! Obviously mine is not worth that; it is in quite a bad shape. The one on that page looks great! But I can definitely see the resemblance to mine. Thanks for sharing!

 

I wasn't sure about before the 80's. I know for awhile it wasn't made available to the public.