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Message:: [QUOTE="Mike Thorne, post: 2287552, member: 56869"]This is a doubled-ear 1984 cent. I had one that had been certified MS64 Red by one of the minor services that I took to sell at an ANA convention in 2014, and no one would offer anything for it. I finally took it to SilverTowne, and one of the buyers there offered me something like $25 for it. This was a coin with a wholesale value at the time of maybe $150 or more. I said, how about $65, and the guy bought it. Before I sold it, I showed it to a dealer who bought error coins, and he said to get rid of it as quickly as possible. According to him, the zinc coating starts coming off, producing bubbles on the coin's surface, which, as you would expect, knocks the value down a lot. Anyway, I took a loupe and looked at my coin and sure enough, it had some bubbling. I guess what I'm saying is that you should get rid of it for what you can get out of it ASAP. By the way, I figured I had about $10 in the coin, as I found it in my wife's change purse. The only reason I looked at her coins was that I had read in a coin paper that they were being found in my state, about 2 hours from where I live. The $10 was the cost of certification back in 1984.[/QUOTE]