Crazy mint error for 1969 D-mark Lincoln head penny

Hey all,

Just so everyone can understand where I'm coming from with the magnitude of this find, I'm a complete stage 1 beginner when it comes to the field of coin collecting. In fact the whole reason I signed up on this website was due to this finding . So my excitement when I came across this was uncontainable, but then I had to check myself to make sure that this isn't some novelty thing or a bunch of fakes going around kinda thing. Or even that "...its a cool coin but itll only be worth like $12 market. so best i can give ya is $9 pal. Ya..Sorry bud, the market demand isnt high for pennies...so its a take it or leave it..." Kinda thing. You know....that heart breakin crap.

Anywho, So my mom just gave me the bag of antique coins or whatever coins my Grandma had been collecting throughout her life, coins she thought interesting. So Ive come here for 2nd, 3rd & 4th etc. opinions and advice since I have no idea what to do with this coin or maximize the potential value. but I do know that there is nothing else like it because I tried to look for mint errors of this particular year and mint mark and have found nothing close. I posted the pics hopefully they show up if I did this correctly. And please help me by leaving comments whether obscene or informative. Thank you all

 

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Welcome to Cointalk
From my understanding how coins are struck and the die process well I'm no error expert so let's see what others think.
Dave
@paddyman98
@furryfrog02

 

We don't use obscene words here on CoinTalk!

Beautiful Double Struck Cent. Marvelous find!

I put the value on it from $35.00 - $50.00 raw

 

@Fred Weinberg - check out this beauty!

Just strange how the second strike shows a bit of the original Rim. That's new to me.

 

That's what was throwing me off hadn't seen one like that.lol
Dave

 

That is strange. Cool look. There must have been a second planchett in the way of the second strike.

 

lovely to get this as a gift

 

Different presses were used in the 60's, so the
rim contact area would look a bit different.

It's a very nice D/S, and worth closer to
$75-$100 retail, due to the date, and the
facts that's it's die struck on the reverse
of the second strike - a bit more appealing
to collectors.

(and there was no other planchet involved
in this particular double struck cent.)

 

Welcome to C.T. Very cool error you have there.

 

So glad to actually see a proper error here. Great find. Welcome

 

A beautiful error-Double Strike Cent. A real error in the error forum. Great find. That's a keeper for sure.

Welcome to CT.

 

Maybe this is a dumb question, but could someone explain how the original obverse rim at 7:00 is intact? Lincoln's head on the 2nd strike looks reasonably struck up in the field to the left of the bust in the first strike, and the reverse of the second strike opposite the intact rim looks struck as well. I don't understand how the metal could flow into these areas and still leave part of the original rim. Thanks in advance

 

Interesting right?
Fred kind of gave an explanation.
No doubt that is a Double Strike.

 

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What were you going to say? "How could they allow a coin like that to leave the Mint?"

Peace

 

Welcome! That's an outstanding find!

 

The rim is in an area where the obverse design of the second strike is fairly deep and the reverse is also about at it's deepest there. I would assume that the metal flow just hasn't wiped out the rim.

 

Thanks. That makes sense. I was thrown by the stronger devices in the field next to the bust of the original strike. Probably the metal from the bust would be more likely to flow up into the head than it would be to flow out into the deep recess.

 

paddyman98

What I was going to say was how is this a D over S, and then I realized he was saying Double Struck by using the common D/S which stands for D over S. So I deleted it.
This is easier to leave the mint than those cluster errors which are supposed to be destroyed.

 

Haha.. Ok
Just messing with you buddy