3 pennies that have bizarre errors is there value?

Hi. Newbie to this world was given some coins from my grandfather's collection. I was told there was nothing valuable and he collected for fun.... but... I found these two and think there must be something interesting or possibly valuable.

I will not even try to explain very much, take a look and let me know what you think.

One is a 1955 that letter BE in liberty are very close odd spacing maybe double die not sure.

One is a penny that looks like it was coated and is on top of another coin and there appears to be a crack on left thru lincoln... and just so many odd things.


The other looks like a printing press mangled job...

So thoughts?

 

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1) is a lamination, nominal value.
2) 1985 D= Damage, spend it

3) Picture #5: Damage, spend it
4) Pictures 6,7, 8 = 1985 D= Damage, spend it

5) #10: Small die crack, nominal value, but a fun find

 

I am adding more images if they help

 

They don't use printing presses at the Mint. Try searching "BIE Lincoln" for the '55.

Chris

 

Thank you for your reply.

 

With the word trust on the 1985... wouldn't thay be an error? And the crack etc.

 

Yes. I wasn't sure about what coins are pressed (?) Or if is called a printing press.... plates?

 

I'm seeing a 56-D. Nice looking mintmark.

 

Yes. 1956 d doubling and between b and e.

Value?

 

The mintmark looks to have been repunched. That and the BIE thing are cool but not much value. Maybe a dollar or two. I'm guessing on the value.

 

agreed, the 45s is a lamination error and the 56d is a die chip known as "BIE" with a possible repunched mintmark.....everything else is damage..

 

The less-important aspect of this coin is the BIE - during that era, for some reason, Lincolns often developed die chips right there, where a chunk of die between the B and E broke off and subsequent strikes looked like "BIE." A kinda cool thing, but relatively common and not really a value-adder.

The more important thing, and I'm surprised nobody mentioned it yet, is the repunched mint mark. Your coin is FS-022.1, a CONECA Top 100 RPM, Lincoln Cent Resource Top 50, and possibly the most prominent repunched mint mark in the entire Lincoln Cent series.

It's not a huge value-adder because too few specialize in accumulating Lincoln RPM's and they're available in Mint State grades, but in terms of relative "importance" you likely won't come across a better Lincoln RPM in your collecting career. It's a biggie. If Lincoln RPM's were more in demand, this would be a moon-money coin.

http://www.lincolncentresource.com/RPMS/1956rpm1.html

http://varietyvista.com/Variety Master Listings/lincoln rpms 1956-1957.htm

 

Larry beat ya by acouple hours on the mm

 

Yeah, but he did it in too subtle a fashion for me. I need a more blunt approach.

 

Welcome to CoinTalk. Browse and have fun here. Your pictures are great. Very nice re-punched mintmark. Coins are struck in machines that place dies over blank planchets. Many errors occur and some are worth money and some aren't.

 

Does not appear to be an error there. Even if it were, the value of the error would be obliterated by the huge amount of damage to the coin.

 

Frank , what's going on with the mint mark on the '56-D , looks like a repunched MM ?

 

Perhaps, but Larry neglected to go the "extra mile" and identify it for the OP!

 

SD beat me to it again . lol

 

definitely,

I missed it, too busy looking at road trash