2001 D penny Texas mud pie

Hi is the 2001 D Texas Mud Pie coin for real?. This one seems to be that with errors also. Any ideas?? Thanks

 

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Mud pie?

Looks like a normal copper plated zinc cent with circulation wear.

 

PCGS.com. The great 2001 d penny spill

 

https://www.pcgs.com/news/the-great-2001-d-penny-spill

I know about this incident. What does it have to do with your damaged cent? Nothing.

 

Its a 2001 D. This coin has a dark mahogany look to it. Just looks different

 

I'll go have it looked at. Im pretty sure its one of the coins mentioned in the spill. Just seems a little hard to believe 76 million coins where dumped in a ditch and turned into hard mud pies.

 

Ok? It looks like any other of the billions of minted copper plated zinc cents since 1982.. Environmental damage

It has environmental toning and plating damage which could be caused dozens of other ways.

 

It was 7.6 million. 76 million could not be hauled on one truck.
There were several billion of these made. There is no way to know if your coin was one from the wreck.

 

Ok do u see the bubbkes or d whatever it is also under liberty

 

Forty something years ago a truck load of dimes got dumped on I-240 in Oklahoma. There was a sharp turn in the road called Dead Mans Curve. Popular place for street racers. A lot of folks were killed until they fixed the road. It took them several days to clean up all the dimes.

 

Todd...it wouldnt matter anyway. It would be almost impossible to prove and quite frankly, who would want it?

 

That looks like zinc coming through or that zincicite or whatever its called.

 

I dont know. The coin just looked different. Felt different. I searched 2001 d penny. The first thing that came up is Texas mud pie. Thought it was a joke. Just making sure im not losing my mind. I have a 2006 and 2014 nickle that look different also.

 

Heres the nickles. Something isnt right.

 

Looks like you have switched to a different coin?

 

Yes i happened to get these 3 coins together in change. I must be wrong. They all just had a different look to them.

 

I have found many coins with similar appearance. I ride my bicycle a lot, and people apparently just toss their change out the window these days. The ones that hit the road quickly become road kill, but the ones that lie quietly in the dirt beside the road take on the appearance of your coins. It would be impossible to prove your coin came from the Texas wreck because the effect is so easily duplicated.

I would like to know how much the government paid that contractor to reclaim the cents. The value of 7.6 million of them is only $76,000, although they had already cost the mint roughly twice that to make them. I would have thought, beyond the easily reclaimed cleaner ones on the top, the cost would have been greater than the worth of the salvaged coins.

 

Welcome to CT. As others have posted, it's just a crappy Zincoln cent with plating issues. Even if it were a Texas mud pie cent, it still isn't worth anything more than 1¢.

 

They dropped a dime on that one.

 

This thread caught my eye because the title contained pie. I like pie.

I can't see any way in the world that your coin could be traced to the Texas spill.