I found this penny a long time ago, always wondered if it was something special. I had to get creative to take the picture, since my digital camera wouldn't focus on it to show any detail, so I held a 10x loop over the coin and took a picture looking through the loop. Thanks for looking
Or, since the last digit is missing, sell it on eBay saying that it COULD be the 1922 no D wheat cent.
You took those pics with a camera and a 10X loupe? Damn, you got some steady hands there! Well done and by the way I think it's a grease filled die too.
It took several tries to get those couple of pictures. Would that error be worth anything or is it just a novelty to have?
I'll have to agree with you there clembo. I have a hard time taking good clear pictures with both hands on the camera. Im about to go to the camera shop this week and buy a good tripod. Oh..btw...I agree with the majority here, certainly a filled die error. As for value, I really dont know as I'm not an error coin collector. Someone here will have a close estimate for you.
Real value is 1 cent. Like most collectibles, it's only worth what collectors are willing to pay for it. Not being all that rare, a dealer probably wouldn't give you more then a dollar or two. Personally, I think it's a pretty kewl looking error, and wouldn't mind paying between 2 and 5 dollars for it. Now if you put it on ebay, well you just never know. There are so many foolish buyers on ebay that on a good day you could take a foil wrapped chocolate coin, call it a planchet error and it would sell for 50 bucks! So you just never know.
