Hey I really wanted to say thank you for the information you give out about these coins. I've gotten an education just listening to your videos and I can't tell you how much more it has enabled me to appreciate my newly found hobby. I really,really am appreciative!!!!!!! Thanks again !
BlueRidgeSilverhound you're welcome. Your passion for this is quite obvious in how you speak. It's amazing what you find when you take a closer look at each coin. I love oddities, I save anything which stands out from the rest. Lincoln cents and all the history and minting errors takes up alot ot my time...many cool finds. Still waiting patiently for that really great find, but I'm happy to find the more common ones as well....As you said, a ton of treasures to find out there.
I recently bought at a Garage sale seven rolls of wheat Lincoln cents for two cents each, they range from 1909 - 1958, so I a roll of 1900’s , 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s, 1959’s and two assorted rolls, now I will enjoy going through them, I will use this video as a reference. Hope to fine some errors.
This video has taught me I should not cash in my coins till I take a closer look. i found quite a few rare coins in my stash, but I pulled a lot more dates out to go over again and now I see why. No way even I could see some of those markings with my eye, even with 20/10 vision Good video, time to buy a jewelers loupe
Thanks again and again for all this. See, even the expert..pro I am I don't even know this much. I really need to pick up a cherrypickers guide. All this stuff is floating around out here. I pulled a (more common type) 1979 double die canadian cent outa a roll out here a while back. Along with that was a 1983 DDR, 1998 WAM's (x4+?), 1999 WAM (AU details, corroded), 2000 WAM's (x6+?) Highest graded '98 was more so a choice unc, if anything ms61. Highest graded 2000 WAM was a MS63-64 piece.
You referred to the magnification as 30x ..... does that mean if your magnifier is only 5x, you would not be able to ditinguish the double dies ? Thank you, enjoyed the information you shared !
Thanks for putting this up. I bought "Strike it Rich.. Error coins bring big money" by Brian Allen and Ken Potter. I was using it for error quarters and found 1 worth $.50. I use to collect pennies in the mid-'60s and completely forgot about my coins in the attic. I have about $15 worth of un-rapped wheat pennies. I have every penny from 1940-60 in a collection book so these pennies are ones I saved after I filled my book. I sorted all by decades IE 1910 1920 ETC. After watching a couple of your videos I'm ready to start looking. if you like I'll post what I find.
I bought that book, too. it is in the 7th printing (mine is) and still full of mistakes. look at the 1970S small date and the pic at the top is the large date. if you look for rotated dies, it says see chapter on them but there is no specific chapter. or one rotated die quarter on page 241, where the photo is in backwards, like in a mirror.. and no doubled dies between 1976 and 2005, when there are 11 DDOs and 8 DDRs on Coneca. I was gonna buy the cherrypickers but I see Potter edited that so i'll save my money unless I see it in a thrift store. certain youtubers like Blue Ridge help me sell more. I sold a 1999S Proof close AM because of a video and also got $52 for a 2018D penny thanks to another video. I check videos for new discoveries every day, then check to see if I have them. it works for me.
The 1955 double die Lincoln Cent you showed, Although the rim was somewhat blurry, it looked to me like it was double rimmed also, particularly across the top, or maybe slightly off planchet? Or not?
Tell me more about the brand of phone scope you used. I need to buy one but don't want to buy four of them just to get the one that works well on ebay.
at the mint they used a V instead of u because it was easier to do in the press machine, so it is a regular 1927 silver dollar, it is a very low mintage and worth between $29 up to $1,300 depending on condition
Anyone know a website with a clear and simple list of coins to look for? I have several thousand wheats (and others) and would love a quick list. I'm sorting by date to make it easier to check later.
I have been collecting coins for years with my father. I have been going threw them and found a steel penny from 1943 it is steel, but it is missing the 4 just wondering where I could go find out if that is worth anything? Thanks
the valuable 1 in 1943 was the copper 1. the 1944 steel was also valuable. in 43 they were all supposed to be steel but somebody at the mint made a few copper 1s same in 44 except someone ran a few steelys. be aware there are copperplated 43s out there crooks are everywhere even in the coin collecting ranks. and now a dig for my favorite coin pet peeve. coin dealers are all like used car salesmen if you have it and want them to buy it it is worthless but if they have the same coin for sale it is worth a fortune.
Thanks for the fantastic video, on error coins. Where do you get a phone scope from? How much do they cost? Is there a specific one or brand to purchase? I didn't really understand the double dye explanations as well as the RPM's. Finally what kind of camera do you use to shoot your videos?
Just opened a Illinois quarter roll I had put aside from the bank as new. I am not a real collector , but have found many oddities. I have several with a small spike at bottom of Washington's neck pointed to the left; very similar to the spitting Delaware horse. On the reverse, Lincoln's face variations such as sunken eyes, clef chins, and one with a short spear through his right arm. What gives with these Ill coins, all P marks...
I have a 1963 d Franklin hafe that has a reverse double die and is unc and I can't find anything about it and would like to now how rare and how much it could be worth.. the gaxley s6 and has a really good voom and is better then the scope you were usein so thanks for the help
i have a handful of floating roof and even missing FG on back, they use to be rare but many of them have been found and so its not rare anymore. only worth alot if the coin has really good doubling. with just floating roof or missing fg worth around $1 up to $10
if your 69 s has a real ddo with real good doubling then it could be worth $10,000 and up, but with just a little doubling it will be worth a lot less, maybe in the hundreds of dollars instead
sir i have a penny that was struck on a corner only error coin that i got in a roll of pennies when i was 12 years old would you know the value of a coin like that .
good evening i have a 1920 d lincoln penny instead wheat backround it has the newer backround strange penny i wouled apreciate your help, is it worth something thank you
well i guess i will need to go over my collection of wheatbacks. didn't know the some of the errors were so subtle. gosh i can't tell ya how many coins i bypassed thinking the dates were smashed by something, when i may have been bypassing a double die. Seen a lot of those wide A M's not thinking they be worth anything. Ive got a 1948 double die along the rim,heavily pronounced along two sides of the rim on the obverse. its for sale.
***** Thanks..I will do that. got a couple questions..I find pennies that appear to be bronze,.up till my recent pick i found 2 that seem to be bronze..lincoln cents 1980 d the other is 1974 no mint mark. are they really bronze and could be worth something? I couldn't find much about bronze cents..particularly those 2 dates.
+bantalee2002 Those are 95% copper. Pre-82 are all 95% copper. I would recommend keeping them, but it's your money. There isn't anything special about them.
Hi Silverhound, How much is that 1955 very double die you talked about worth? (not the one shown). I knew as a kid, not to have put it in the friggin gum ball machine. Knew it was "different". It haunts me to this day!!! Do you know what it's worth? (I don't know if I really want to know though.....lol).
Robert Davis Don't remember the condition, but was about 10 years old then and highly obvious. Man, could I use that "lucky penny" now. Thanks for the bad news. lol!!!!
Hi BlueRidgeSilverhound, I have been in coin collecting for over 30 years, All I ever had is a table mounted magnifying glass with a fluorescent light around it, that I never liked, I don't use smart phones, what would you recommend, that I hook up to my pc, that I could get some real good magnification on, I like what you have done with your coins, I would never be able to do with what I have, Great work, Thank you
@9:50 I'm not seeing an inverted S on the coin. It reads correctly to me, as in looks like an S, not a (reversed?) S. Pradon my ignorance, I'm just getting into collecting.
I would kill to ask you a question because some coin was sale a lot of money in the auction did some people ever lost there coin when the was sending them back home ,do they have anything to protect their coin or any insurance for it ?
@@steveschmoller5489 Hey, Steve, thanks for responding I may have meant in 1944 or 1949. I have a good collection of wheat pennies as old as 1919. I have some in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s,
Do you carefully study every single penny? I definitely wouldn't have the patience to look through pennies on the maybe 1/10,000 chance I find a die variety.
+Joey Moric Haha that's nice, but that's just anecdotal evidence, AKA a fallacy. Statistically speaking, I could look through 100,000 pennies and not find any key errors like that.
+Joey Moric I guess. But I've definitely got that mentality looking through halves! 😉 I've gone through maybe 10-15 (don't quote me on that) $500 boxes of halves and have 5 proofs and 74 silvers to date, including 18 90%ers (and included in that are four Franklins and one uncirculated 1944 Walking Liberty valued around $40). I realize this too is anecdotal evidence, but that's all accumulated from boxes where individually, I've only been skunked once and have gotten a maximum of only 12 silvers from one box. I must live in a great area to CRH halves.
it when you can see a outline of the letters right next to them, take a look at the 1955 and look at the top lettering in "in god we trust" you will see doubling on the letters
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As an avid viewer of your channel, I want to request that you sometimes add classical music when appropriate, to your videos, as opposed to verbal narration. Dustin over at Coin oop has done just that. And I must say it was an Excellent change of pace from the norm, and would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
B.J. Martin normally cherry pick means. getting the easy ones. More then likely it is a dated and stamped variety that is known to be a keeper without looking to closely.
