Post and explain your "out of the ordinary" circulated US issue(s) or varieties

No they bottom of the O simply chipped on the hub.

 

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Hello everyone, here I have an 1847 large penny and if you look at about the 2 o’clock you’ll see some type of error. Possibly a gouge? You’ll have to zoom in to see it. Thanks!

 

I feel 100 percent confident that its just PMD. Here are several reasons why I think its just from another coin being pressed against it very hard.
-Because the date is indented it means it was pressed into the coin. A coin die has the design carved into the die for the date. If it was from a die it would be a raised date.
-there are circular markings you can see from the rim of the other coin being pressed into this one.


Doesn't mean it's not cool, just not an error.

 

Edit, misread quote.

@Conder101 If the O broke it the die, since its concave it would fill with more metal not lose more metal. Unless the minting process was different for this coin?

 

The true challenge with 1863-1871 S mint half dimes is finding problem free examples. Half dimes are certainly an underrated series as a whole, but problem free examples of these dates are very desirable. Almost every example is damaged, bent, or has some other kind of problem. For pricing of problem free coins you can throw out your price guide as they almost always sell way more than price guide value.

That 65-S is a very nice example.

 

OMG - a circulated counterfeit Penny! Who would do that?

 

I said the HUB chipped not the die. On the hub the O is raised, If you chip off part of the letter the die will not have a depression in that area and the coin struck from it will not have raised features there. There are many coins with broken letters like that that are caused by chipped hubs. Seated coins often have the top of the D in UNITED open. Two cent pieces as well and often the serif of the D is gone. Shield nickels have a lot of problems with various letters broken on the rev. The Hub of 68 rev nickels all came from the same hub and you can trace them from no broken letters through six broken letters before they finally junked the hub.

 

I am gonna have to go through the end of this thread, But, here is a 52' Winged D Lincoln. It was dubbed the name wing because of the likeness to the Mercury dime. Any ways this is a die chip on the MM. I think this example would be a mid die state.

 

1999 Broad struck, partial brockage, incuse lettering error.

My fav local B&M owner took in a ziplock bag with errors collected by a bank teller over many years. I walked in just minutes later and he told me to take a look, he knows I'm a Lincoln collector. Told me to make him an offer, I offered him $3 a coin, there was like 12 in the bag and that's how I acquired this puppy:

 

At a local coin show I was going through a giant "bargain bin" and found this in a 2x2 for $1. Someone didn't look at it very close, must have thought it was damaged. THANKS DUMMY! MS-64/65 retained lamination error for a buck!

 

Good pics of that lamination!

 

The only CUD I've found in my change.

 

I've found a bunch of Lincoln errors over the years. There's more, these will do for now.

 

My 1872-s “half dollar”; struck counterfeit slabbed by two different TPG’s…

 

I don't understand. Could you explain please? (note, the tread is post and explain, thanks) Is the coin counterfeit and slabbed twice by TPG's or was it slabbed by two counterfeit TPG's or was it slabbed as counterfeit by two different TPG's? or.....? Is it counterfeit or not? How do you know it was slabbed by two different TPG's?

Thanks.

 

^ What he said....

...and, how do you know it's a counterfeit?

 

My research article on the fake 1872-s: https://coinweek.com/counterfeits/c...-1872-s-half-dollar-1-page-attribution-guide/

An edited version will be in the May Numismatist.

The coin was originally sold at auction in a TPG holder; I agreed to have it cracked out and submitted it to a second TPG and it is currently in that holder.

 

Speared olive bud bisecting date crack. WB 13 struck by the good old confederate states of America

 

Jeepers I want this coin!!!

 

Clash with $20 gold piece die.