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<p>[QUOTE="Devyn, post: 2657818, member: 85494"]Hi, so I recently found interest in coin hunting when I discovered a butt load of wheat pennies in my wife's old storage bins. Turns out her grandpa had been collecting and saving them for her for a long time, knowing they would one day be worth something. With that being said I started researching and sorting through them and low and behold, there are multiple errors in the mix. I have a few really old ones (1911,1919,1930) with no visible errors, but I have a lot of 1930-1958 with a few highly visible errors. For example; 1940 penny has a raised nose shaped piece right under the lincoln nose pointing to about 5:00, it looks like maybe it was double struck however; at a certain angle you can see that it isn't really another nose and there aren't any other flaws around it. Also I have a 1936 penny that is in all around pretty good condition, but in the reverse side it is missing the N in the word ONE you can see it very faintly there but it is 100% smooth and flat just looks almost as if it were slightly painted on, and seeing how the rest of the coin is I know it's not just worn off. It is also missing a tad of the E and the entire phrase located on the top except for E PL..... I have many more, those are just in my opinion the best two. </p><p> I would really appreciate some advice from some of you guys that know about these things; are they worth messing with? Should I save them? Should I sell them? Could the two examples I listed be valuable? Where would I sell them? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Devyn, post: 2657818, member: 85494"]Hi, so I recently found interest in coin hunting when I discovered a butt load of wheat pennies in my wife's old storage bins. Turns out her grandpa had been collecting and saving them for her for a long time, knowing they would one day be worth something. With that being said I started researching and sorting through them and low and behold, there are multiple errors in the mix. I have a few really old ones (1911,1919,1930) with no visible errors, but I have a lot of 1930-1958 with a few highly visible errors. For example; 1940 penny has a raised nose shaped piece right under the lincoln nose pointing to about 5:00, it looks like maybe it was double struck however; at a certain angle you can see that it isn't really another nose and there aren't any other flaws around it. Also I have a 1936 penny that is in all around pretty good condition, but in the reverse side it is missing the N in the word ONE you can see it very faintly there but it is 100% smooth and flat just looks almost as if it were slightly painted on, and seeing how the rest of the coin is I know it's not just worn off. It is also missing a tad of the E and the entire phrase located on the top except for E PL..... I have many more, those are just in my opinion the best two. I would really appreciate some advice from some of you guys that know about these things; are they worth messing with? Should I save them? Should I sell them? Could the two examples I listed be valuable? Where would I sell them? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.[/QUOTE]
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