I just came into some coins, they were gifted to me by a lady I was caregiver for. There are so many, I'm new here, so I'll start with this one. Is there a 1968 D penny which was an error, with a blank reverse?
First, welcome to the neighborhood @darkangel ! Ordinarily, we would ask you to post photos, but in all likelihood what you have is post mint damage (PMD). We've seen a lot of these, here, and it is impossible for a coin to be produced without two dies (obverse and reverse) opposing one another to strike the planchet. Chris
Oh, does that mean it for certain was damaged after minting? I was reading that it may be possible to find out by weighing it?
Well, it's a physical impossibility to strike the obverse of a coin without the reverse - you need two dies to make a coin - so yes, one can reasonably assume that a Cent with only one face has had the other machined off. That said, there are a couple of happenstances which could result in something which kind of resembles that - a bunch of grease covering one die, a broadstrike maybe. Pics are worth posting. You never know.
