1996 Penny No Mint Mark (crime against god. worlds ugliest penny?)

can anyone tell me whats up with this fugly 1996 penny. I see so many errors double strike and just crimes of nature in general. Is this real, normal, or hopefully valuable?










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Sorry, not an error. Your coin did not leave the mint like this. The obverse has severe damage to the plating. Seems a combination of environmental or corrosive or tooling but in the end it doesn't really matter because it's still just post-mint damage. Worth one cent.

 

It's a crappy Zincoln!

Chris

 

Why is the lettering inside out? I actually just read something about dryer coins but i see a lot of other things wrong here. Again though I don't know. Anyone else?

 

I do know that Abe Lincoln looks like Jimmy Durante

 

The lettering is not inside out. The plating is severely corroded.
Not trying to be rude here, but please use some common sense. The fact that you say you "see so many errors" indicates you have no idea what you're talking about. Your coin has multiple types of damage. We see about five of these a day posted by people who do not understand the minting process. You have a heavily damaged coin, it did not leave the mint like that. Thus, it is not an error and has no additional value.

 

I said I don't know about these things lol. No offense on to your replies, I just wanted to be sure everyone is in agreement.

*EDIT: sorry I actually didn't say, "I don't know." That was on another forum.
I've been having problems getting the images up due to file sizes and bandwith limits. So I've been rushing. Nothing like spending 2 hours on one forum post to make you speed things up. However, yea I don't know much about these things. Too me it looked melted and I remember hearing about acid being used to raise numbers (i thought that had something to do with it)

Anyway due to my unparalleled coin knowledge (), I've come to the conclusion this is not an error. It is in fact most likely a dryer coin. Or a coin that was wedged between an overweight individual's pocket and a park bench on a hot summer day.

 

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Dave

 

What you need to do is END and DELETE your damaged Cent!

 

Zinc, a dinka dink, a dinka do.