Interesting pennies

I was going through a 5-gal jug of pennies and nickels and came across a few strange ones. Take a look at these three. What do you think about them?

I am new to the site, but it certainly seems like an interesting place to kill some time.

 

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Not worth anything, they both are just mangled up. Someone may have took pliers to them

 

PMD - Post Mint Damage.. thanks for sharing but none are errors.

 

Look at the bright side. At least those three coins didn't take up much room in that 5-gal. jug.

Chris

 

It took plenty of scrubbing to clean my hands every time I took an hour or so to go through them. A 5-gal water jug holds A LOT of pennies and nickels!

 

I would say close to $400 if filled with Cents alone, im getting close to finding the exact amount.

 

Are those dog toys?

 

thanks Coinman! Here is another one I found. Looks like a "shadow" of Abe on the reverse.

 

Don't forget to check all the other coins for errors/varieties!

 

If the jug was packed solid with copper it would weigh 372 pounds. Loose pennies don't have the same density but probably fill over 50%, and possibly closer to 65% so your jug must have weighed around 225 pounds. I'm assuming a mixture of copper and zinc cents weighted toward the latter so there would be about 175 pennies to the pound for a total of about $393.75 in the jug, if they were all pennies. There were nickels too so if the mixture was approximately 50-50 I'd say the total value is around $900 +/- $150, depending on the actual mixture.

 

I was close with my $400 guess then.

 

I think this is a perfect example of how this site provides "a place to kill some time".

 

I found a 1969 a penny with a semi D to the right of the S. Anyone seen one like this before?