Pocket Change Finds; Post Your Results

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Steady your phone against a heavy object that is tall enough to set an optimal focal length for your phone's camera. Use the zoom sparingly to get the image you want. Be careful not to pixelate the photo. Be sensitive to light sources and overflooding the field. You'll start to take better photos with some practice. Regarding your coin...interesting phenomenon. Let me do a little research for you and get back to you.

 

I took a look at cuds-on-coins and they don't have your specimen. That site will show errors/things other than a cud, and they have similar items, but not yours. Better pictures will help us with your diagnosis.

 

Im on it! Give me a minute I'll get some high resolution shots

 

What you'll find out is that if you give us a crisp photo of the obverse and reverse without background clutter, the enlarging feature here helps us get the resolution we need. Just don't get too close to the issue.

 

As soon as I get home I'll take better pics. Say i do perhaps have a error in which a 7 is under the 8.... What might the value be approximately? If any

 

I can't seem to find the cord for my camera so I have to snap pics of the camera screen with my cellphone for now here's some more pics

 

Ok here are some real good pictures!!

 

The last set of photos are your best set of photos. I can see from them that the 8 took a hit and some burnished material ended up in the loops of the 8. Interesting appearance, but that's about it. You'll see over time collecting some weird outcomes due to a well placed hit. This is one of them.

 

good pics.i wish mine were that clear.

 

here would be my only reservation.if that was indeed a 7 hiding under an 8 wouldnt that make it a peculiar size? say some thing between the size of a mint mark and the size of the date mark?

 

@igotchange That's about correct. You'll see here (and elsewhere) that when folks are struggling with pareidolia they often don't consider font or size; they just see something that looks familiar. The community here usually dials up those factors during the discussion. One thing that I was trying to ascertain here was whether or not Matthew had a cent with a die chip/break in the area of the 8. The full(er) obverse photos helped to bear out that there was an impact in that area. Some research at cudsoncoins also didn't show a particular die chip/break for that date/mm (not that all such issues are attributed) so that slanted me towards burnished metal. Copper is pretty soft, so a glancing strike can flatten a device and carry material into the voids in/around it. I think that's what happened here. Still, checking your pocket change is a worthy exercise. If that had been a crack/chip, posting a message to cudsoncoins might merit a bit of numismatic fame (credit for the attribution). That's always a fun consolation.

 

I got lucky today and received a 2019W San Antonio Missions ATB Quarter earlier from a vending machine at my university's student union.

 

Fun find! I've been making change, but I haven't gotten anything to post for awhile now. Glad someone else is finding success in their change!

 

After a long drought, I pulled my first 2020 Jefferson from circulation and it was a DDR. Nothing listed yet, but I see others have found some too.

I also tallied up the change I collected for about 3 years. Over $1200. A few decent finds amongst all those coins, but nothing worth more than around $5. Still, I enjoy making change wherever I go...you just never know.

 

I took a couple quick pictures before filing away...

 

So I accumulated around $250 in change over the past 10 months and went through it finally a couple weeks ago. Banks still seem to be grateful for coin dumps. An interesting phenomenon for CRH enthusiasts. I posted a couple coins earlier in the year, but these are about the best I came up with from this lot of coins:



The 1941 was a small S, only one wheatie for the year, and a couple of nicer newer dates that may make the roll set (need to check that out yet). I hope that fellow enthusiasts are making better headway than me, but still fun checking the change and looking for variety specimens. I did get lucky at one point and bought up around 300 Kennedy Half Dollars that produced a 40%er, an impaired proof, and 5 Franc piece...but that's for another thread. Good luck on the hunt!!

 

know whats really awesome is i never wrote this! matter of fact i cant even spell pecluliar. what are you people psychos?stop posting your claims under my name!

 

So I accumulated a few dollars in change and this was sitting in the pile. I guess I collected it in change sometime in the past couple of weeks. I'll probably pickle it to lift a date, but still assessing the reverse (wondering about the E in FIVE; DDR or wearing toward the rim). Leaning towards wear.

 

Holding it on an angle after soaking for a bit I can make out 1916. I’m going to soak it longer to see if I can bring it out more. When they are this worn there is a risk you will etch too much off and lose all trace of a date.

105 years in circulation. Pretty impressive!