1987 D Penny with a depression
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1987 D Penny with a depression
This is a 1987 D with an odd depression. Is this a mint thing? The lettering in the word liberty tapers from thin on the first letters and the ending letters normal heights. I hope the pics shows enough details. Just curious if this is common or not and what causes things like this.
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Re: 1987 D Penny with a depression
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I always contributed that to a worn die or polishing. Not really worth anything though. Extreme ones are neat to find.
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Re: 1987 D Penny with a depression
Either we got the worlds gripe of these coins or the mint had problems from 1985 though 1987. We have found a lot of these things in this last gripe of coin we got from the bank. I know I have seen them in the past before, but not this many or this bad. Sort of cool I guess.
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Re: 1987 D Penny with a depression
pahwa, you are correct in that there were a bunch of these in the 80's. I don't know exactly what the problem was but attribute it to poor quality control and a learning curve from changing to zinc. I also save any really nice zinc cents from the 80's as they really are not very common.
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Re: 1987 D Penny with a depression
Thanks Roger. It seems from about 85 through 89 all had bad ones. I just couldn't believe how many we found in this last gripe from the bank. I may keep a few of these things that are in really good shape.
My son and I were looking though coins the other day when he came up saying that is it really weird to find one coin, like a 1963, that is bright, clean nearly uncirculated and the next coin is a 2010 that looks like is it flat out worn out and 100 years old. This is a very interesting hobby.
My son and I were looking though coins the other day when he came up saying that is it really weird to find one coin, like a 1963, that is bright, clean nearly uncirculated and the next coin is a 2010 that looks like is it flat out worn out and 100 years old. This is a very interesting hobby.
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Re: 1987 D Penny with a depression
pahwa,yes, it makes me sad to think how our cents look after just a year or two of circulation.For someone young, I think it will pay off to save all the nice zincoln cents as they will be hard to find in collectable condition. I am putting away rolls of BU zinc cents when I search ...I think one day somebody will be glad to discover these little goldmines :w
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Re: 1987 D Penny with a depression
Your probably right maineman. I have saved a few myself mostly 2009's and 2010's, but I have a few nice ones from the 90's and 80's that have some spectacular toning that are in great shape.
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Re: 1987 D Penny with a depression
Welcome Antonio. A roll or really nice one from the 80's?hernandez.antonio wrote:Hi have one
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Re: 1987 D Penny with a depression
I have many coins of 1 cent with depression intercanbiar someone is interested in ideas, have several where L also disappears
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Re: 1987 D Penny with a depression
I have a 1987 D penny that has a small 4 after WE. (WE 4) Is anyone familiar with this?
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