Damage?

Discussion in 'Error Coins' started by dlp_dlp21, Apr 14, 2020.

  1. dlp_dlp21

    dlp_dlp21 always and forever

    I'll get better pics not at home
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  3. Danomite

    Danomite What do you say uh-huh

    What does the reverse look like?
     
  4. alurid

    alurid Well-Known Member

    Yes, damaged. I'd like to think that is a wheat cent.
     
  5. dlp_dlp21

    dlp_dlp21 always and forever

    It isnt
     
  6. dlp_dlp21

    dlp_dlp21 always and forever

  7. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Is that one of those pennies that isn't covered with tar but is a retained strikethrough? ~ Chris
     
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  8. Danomite

    Danomite What do you say uh-huh

  9. rascal

    rascal Well-Known Member

    No not this time . LOL
     
  10. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    Are you sure? Maybe we should check with the expert *juslystn*. ~ Chris
     
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  11. hotwheelsearl

    hotwheelsearl Well-Known Member

    I mean, I guess it could be greaser with major wear on only one side.
     
  12. rascal

    rascal Well-Known Member

    Maybe so , He seems to know more than some on here for sure.
     
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  13. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    It's looks like a damaged greaser.
     
  14. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

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  15. coloradobryan

    coloradobryan Well-Known Member

    Worth exactly one cent. No less, no more.
     
  16. Oldhoopster

    Oldhoopster Member of the ANA since 1982

    Lots of environmental damage. IMO, the lack of detail on the obverse is due to the environmental effects. Possibly something acidic.

    Even if there was some type of error, it would be impossible to verify with all of the damage. Spend it
     
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  17. penniesonly

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  18. Publius2

    Publius2 Well-Known Member

    It sat embedded in a asphalt roadway, reverse side down, for a couple of years and had about 20 millions pounds of tire contact on the obverse. So, it must be a mint error to allow that to happen.
     
  19. dlp_dlp21

    dlp_dlp21 always and forever

    Also weighs 2.75
     
  20. Oldhoopster

    Oldhoopster Member of the ANA since 1982

    That explains the lack of details on the obverse. Corrosion and/or wear.
     
  21. VistaCruiser69

    VistaCruiser69 Well-Known Member

    I see these type of coins on a nearly daily basis during my walks throughout the big city streets (San Francisco, CA). I'm betting this is one such coin. City workers cut the asphalt when installing new traffic lights and sensors. After installation, they seal up the cuts in the asphalt with some black soft sticky tar-like substance. A coin happens to fall on it and car tires mash it into the black soft sticky tar-like substance, where it will sit there with rubber car tires running it over hundreds, if not thousands of times a day 24/7 365 days a year until someone (perhaps like me) sees it, takes the blade from a small pocket knife and pries it out. This is probably why on the coin attached, it is worn down on one side and not so damaged on the other, with what looks like some type of black sticky tar-like substance on the reverse. This was a lucky penny, for if this is accurate and correct, it was heads-up.

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