FYI, in 1958 the date wasn't "punched," it was engraved. Just like the others, all I'm seeing is DDD or it took a hit.
I got two 2021D cents in change at the end of January here in Houston. It's usually late February or early March before I see any new coins.
Looks like it has been laquered and/or polished. There was a time when laquer was used to preserve coins.
It could be what is termed a "brass plated" cent. If there is enough zinc in the plating solution, it will give the cent a yellowish look. The...
Looks like a brass plated cent, where zinc was present in the plating solution and dissolved into the solution over time.
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It's a large date.
It could have gotten stuck in a clothes dryer. I have a cent that came out of a dryer that looks very similar. :)
Yours is a sloppy one, in my opinion. Stamped right over the date.
I think I see a faint D, or remnants of a D.
I found a 1996W dime in a roll plated like that. I kept it for the novelty.
Nope. Keep looking!
That's just his adam's apple.:p
It's mostly die deterioration. I remember when the 1984 nickels were released. A lot of them had really crappy strikes. For some reason in...
I am 100% certain that this is a 1943 cent. The shape of the 4 matches 1943, and not 1944. I do not know if this was an attempted alteration or...
Just for the year 2017, in recognition of the Philly mint's 225th anniversary. In 2018 the Philly cents will again be without a mint mark.
That is the way the "7" is supposed to look, based on the style of numbering that Victor Brenner used when he engraved the obverse in 1909. There...
Funny how people think that rounding is only up. No, it's up or down to the nearest cent now, and that wouldn't change if we get rid of the cent.
Ahhhh, yes. I see that the Mint has finally solved the problem of striking cents at negative seigniorage!
Not saying it is a doubled die, the pictures just aren't clear enough for me, but it does look promising. You "might" have something there.
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