Good morning, I'd first like to apologize to those of you that I sent unsolicited messages to...didn't understand how to navigate this site. I'm hoping to get some information on my coin...I've had it since 1977 but never knew if it had any value. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. The pics are not the best as they were taken with my cell phone.
I think a dime was used to overstrike to become a Lincoln. It's definitely worth a fair bit although I'm not well versed in this type. Probably easily in a few hundred.
Not likely. More likely a dime planchet was struck, then struck as a Lincoln cent. It can't be the other way around. oh............. never mind, I just mis-read your post.
What is the real life color of this? The photo looks copperish. Does it look like a clad dime or a cent?
I'll call fake at this time. If you rotate the obverse into cent horizontal you have to rotate it another 109 degrees CCW to get the dime obverse horizontal. Do the same with the reverse and you have to go 137 CW. This would require that one of the die sets was rotated as well. But as long as you are making mischief coins, why not do it all the way?
@awordcreated...the color is silver with the ridges of a dime. I don't know if you're trying to imply that I made a "mischief coin" but what I can tell you is I received it as change in 1977 when I was a kid at our summer home in NH. At that time a neighbor there offered my mother money for it but I said I wanted to keep it. It was enclosed in cardboard and plastic by my Aunt and has sat in a dresser ever since. The only reason it came across my mind is I was watching an episode of Pawn Stars on Sunday. All I'm trying to do is figure out if it has any value...I have no interest in coins or any reason to mispresent what I have. I just want to make sure that if there is value that I'm not mislead...
Hello NancyB, Your coin looks like a struck dime that was subsequently struck as a cent. I see nothing in the photos to make me think it is not real. (Of course, better photos are necessary for better counterfeit detection). The error is called a double denomination or 11 cent piece. I own a few examples and it is an error that I would recommend only buying in a slab. If you ever plan to sell the coin, you should probably have it slabbed in order to get the most money for it. I suspect that 1976 is a better date because of the Bicentennial year. The retail price is probably $1,000+. (I know one fellow that might pay twice that amount because of the Bicentennial year). Let me know if you have any further questions about the coin. Also, you may have gotten more folks to see your post if you had placed it in the error coin section at CoinTalk.
Looks like a real cent on a struck dime, retail probably in the $700 to $1000 range, possibly the lower end of that because the date on the dime is not visible. Ones showing both dates are more desirable. And those are retail vaules, if you were to sell to a dealer you might expect 70% or so of those amounts.
I agree with Collect89 better photo's would help. Perhaps you could make that happen sometime. I'd sure like to have a good look at it. i understand that last part, and I am but a noob. The strange rotation threw up a flag for me. I was suggesting that if a mint worker intentionally made this coin, it wouldn't be surprising to find him mucking up the rotation also. Not to imply that Nancy is a coin maker When you say ridges do you mean rim raised against the field or the reeding on the edge? That would mean the coin is at least a little smaller than a cent. How does it compare to a cent in diameter, and to a dime and cent in thickness? All you need do for that is lay some normal coins out next to it and have a look. Can you confirm the rotation - which if any is correct and which has the rotation error? At least one has to have the error for the numbers I cited to not be equal. I based them off the blurry photos but they should be close. For example Redwin's coin has equal rotation offset (as it should) - best I can tell. I also agree that you should have it graded and attributed to know better the value and validity.
