Mint error coins

[matt1028]

Does anyone know anything about coins. I found this coin in an attic while working today. It is a penny, and I think it may be a mint error. It looks like it has 2 Lincoln heads, it says liberty twice (once directly across from the other, and written backwards), you can make out the word trust, but it is backwards and on the wrong side, and it has two dates, 1983 and 1994 written backwards. It also looks like it is slightly off center and the bottom part is smashed. You can make out a little bit of the back, but it is hard to see. Anyone have any ideas what causes this? I have pictures, but it wouldn't let me upload them.

 

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[Gunrunner61]

A picture would really help out.

 

[l.cutler]

It sounds like two or more cents were squeezed or hammered together. Pictures would help, but with two dates eleven years apart would pretty much rule out it being an error.

 

[matt1028]

Maybe I can send pictures through message roe email, but for some reason it wouldn't let me post them to the thread. The two dates being 11 years apart is what confused me the most about this coin. Its so smooth that I didn't think someone could have hammered them or pressed them together, but who knows.

 

[LM]

Mint errors are their own specialty.
They're really fickle, too.
There are oddball, one-off mint errors that have novelty value alone, whereas something like a 55 DDO has enormous demand, even though there's quite a few out there (relatively speaking).

 

[cti4sw]

There's a coin forum I use from time to time. Post a pic there and one of them could help you out:

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