I pulled this from a mint bag a while back and still haven't determined what exactly is going on with it. I am guessing it was struck on a thin/defective/split planchet. What do you guys think?
Very, very cool! I had a $50 Mint bag of 1980 (P) Lincoln cents that took me 4-1/2 years to search (in between headaches). I didn't even think of looking for something like that. Instead, I found a lot of dropped element strikethroughs and 228 "Y clashes". ~ Chris
I never wanna see a 1980 again...lol. I found 10 clips,1 double clip,a few broadstrikes and this. Not a single clash unfortunately
My biggest regret is that the headaches I got from searching all those pennies irritated me so much that I sold two other unsearched $50 Mint bags of 1974. To this day, I still wonder what I might have found in those bags. ~ Chris
oh lord,74 is the wooooorst date to look thru imo,i just went thru 30$ face of them and found nothing.
do these have any premium? Im curious as to what I could expect to get out of it if I were to sell it.
Maybe, but when you have an original bag of 5,000 coins from the same production run, there is no telling what you might find. ~ Chris
By the way, the code at the bottom of your bag refers to the production run. The two bags that I had were from the same run. ~ Chris
They go for around $15-$30 in MS grades. They are much more common than people think. It costs more to certify them than they are actually worth. My certified 1971-D cent is an MS65 Red, and only 2.3 grams. Picked it up for $22.
I guess we have different purchasing experiences. I purchased all of mine from Fred Weinberg for a little bit more than that.