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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Yokozuna, post: 994536, member: 26087&quot;]I hope it&#039;s okay, but I wanted to make this post into a new thread. It was part of another thread and I don&#039;t want it to get lost.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The original post was in the &quot;Odd looking penny error&quot; thread.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><b><i>I FOUND THE BAG THAT ALL THE ERRORS WENT INTO!</i></b> </span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">I bought a mint sewn bag on eBay and found the coolest surprise. The coins, <b>1974-D cents</b>, had <b>massive die clash</b> that the mint workers tried to fix and wound up polishing off major parts of the obverse portrait of Lincoln along with<i> <b>some</b></i> of the die clash. So now the bag has coins that show Lincoln with <b>no tie, missing coat front, a floating lower lip, floating hair</b> at the forehead,<b> missing neck (front and back), very weak &quot;Y&quot;</b> in LIBERTY, the <b>&quot;D&quot; from UNITED and columns</b> from the reverse on the obverse. I even found one that the nose had so much die polish that it was almost detached.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">On the reverse of the coins you can see the <b>bust of Lincoln</b> between the columns, <b>parts of the word LIBERTY</b> in the field and between the columns, <b>the letter &quot;Y&quot; from LIBERTY</b> shows up very strong on about half of the coins and BOTH sides of the coins have <b>1000s of polish marks</b> where they tried to remove the die clash damage above and below the monument. </span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">I&#039;ve found<b> coins with fingerprints</b> where the coins were inspected. Some coins have the die clashed and polished obverse dies with <b>new reverse dies</b> and a few coins have no die clash but have <b>different degrees of die rotation</b>. I would say that <b>9 out of 10 coins in the bag have some sort of major error!</b> I&#039;ve just started looking at the coins, so I&#039;m not sure what else I&#039;ll find. I&#039;ll take photos as soon as I get a chance and post them. </span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">My guess is that this bag was pulled to be melted and somehow survived the last 36 years. At first I thought the coins were adjustment strikes because so much of the portrait is missing. Then I saw all the deep polish marks and started putting things together. I have a bag of 4500+ error Cents. It&#039;s like they kept trying to fix the dies and just made it worse with each adjustment. </span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">So yes... at least one bag that &quot;all the errors went into&quot;<b> DIDN&#039;T</b> get recycled; it&#039;s at<b> MY HOUSE</b> and the coins are<b> RED</b> and <b>UNCIRCULATED!</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">I&#039;ll set up the camera tomorrow and start uploading some pictures to Flickr.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">I&#039;m SO happy I bought this bag I could cry!</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Ben </span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Read more: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t125147-2/#ixzz0zQtLRb6d" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t125147-2/#ixzz0zQtLRb6d">http://www.cointalk.com/t125147-2/#ixzz0zQtLRb6d</a></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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