I have owned this 1$ coin for a long time and kept it in my jar of coins just because i thought it was neet. Looks like someone punched a big ZERO on both side. Seems like intentional post-mintage damage but both punches look exactly the same and does look like a coinage zero. The punches were not directly on the opposite sides of each other. I kept the coin "just in case". Whether it's a genuine mint error I'm still gonna keep it because it's neet. So the mystery remains, what could this be? Maybe some of my favourite CSI's can help (Hello Nick! ). My dad keeps this big air-tight jar of shinny pennies Canadian and US alike, because he thinks they are pretty and "golden". Even though they'd get the typical bag marks having randomly dropped/deposited in there, most of them keep their reddish lightly circulated condition. Darned on me one day to search through the jar of over 500 pennies for any rare dates and varieties. Beside finding 10s of specimens suitable for my collection (selected from most of them that can be graded as red), I've found these 2 pennies... This 1 cent coin from 1979 appears to have been double-struck. Note the Queen's forehead. This variety is not noted in the 59th edition of the Charlton Standard. This 1 US cent appears to be struck off centre. "IN GOD WE TRUST" is almost at the edge of the coin. Note the tampering of the rim starting from the 2 and 8 o'clock positions. The rim on the reverse side appears to be normal. What would be these coins' worth, if they worth anything above face value at all? PS: how do I embed attached images within the text? I couldn't find the direct URL to the files. All I had was the php reference. I've removed the attached images for now and linked to the ones from my site instead.
The US penny is not worth anything IMO, but I’d keep it if I found it. The minor off-strikes are pretty common
