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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 114416, member: 4552&quot;]Not just pennies but all coins are normally easy to spot the average type of errors. For instance you don&#039;t have to be a coin expert to notice that a coin is off center. In other words an offset. Large rims and occationally doubled rims are easily regognized. Any coins that make you feel like you should not have had that last Martini because it looks all blurry is possibly a double die or coin that has been stamped at least twice. When it comes to lesser noticable errors like the stupid 1995 Lincoln Cent now selling at coin shows for $50 to $100, it make you wonder if you should spend your life with a magnifier or microscope. The oddest thing is as you notice the errors, you&#039;ll notice that the majority are on the front of all coins. That is because hardly anyone looks at the reverse of a coin. For instance I recently told a coin dealer that has about 60 years of experience that all US coins are made so that as you turn them over from top to bottom, they will always be right side up. That is true of ALLLLLLLLL US coins. He didn&#039;t believer me and started to turn over coin after coin after coin. What a dummy. Then one day I told the same guy that I believe that abaout 30% of all Mercury Dimes have the reverse turned from what we just talked about. Again, started to turn every Mercury Dime he had and came up with an astonishing 40% were all turned from 5 to 90 degerees. He thought that was great. </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Back to pennies, just look at them front and back. Look for odd things such as double images, double buildings on the reverse, image offsets, oversized rims, no reverse, missing numbers or letters and on and on and on and on. Missing letteres and numbers are becoming more noticable at coin shows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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