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1963D Penny Mint Error

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New to this group. I was a coin collector many years ago but sold my collection. I recently discovered a leftover bag of 64, 1963D pennies in what appear to be in BU condition (shiny bright copper). All of the coins appear to have the "L on the rim" mint error in the word "Liberty". Some appear to also have the DDO mint error as well (not sure). I see these on Ebay and other sites from anywhere to a few dollars to several hundred dollars. Any advice on the value and best place to sell them would be greatly appreciated. Attached is a representative photo of one of the coins.
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Common die wear, "Ridge Ring". I know Daniel has a video on this.

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Paul, thanks for the advice on the ridge error. If that has no value, there is no value in a 60 year old, uncirculated coin?

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Monchmant wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:50 pm Paul, thanks for the advice on the ridge error. If that has no value, there is no value in a 60 year old, uncirculated coin?
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there is no value in a 60 year old, uncirculated coin?
Slabbed coins are a different world from the rest of the hobby.

There are not scientific or verifiable standards used for grading. The same coin can be cracked out and resubmitted to the same company and never be guaranteed the same grade again.

Ad the companies do not hand out high grades often. The less money-grade slabs there are, the more people pay for the extant ones, therefore the more people will pay the companies to slab and gamble on getting a money-grade slab.

And since, conveniently, the companies tell you up front grading is an art, they are not able to be held accountable (again, nothing verifiable!) for any business practices they might employ such as keeping those money-grade slabs to a minimum.
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L On The Rim Of A Penny Or Missing L Or Messed Up L - Is It Rare - Valuable?

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Thanks for the video. As mentioned, all 64 of my 1963D coins have the L on the rim. Besides that, I also found another coin that has this strike mark on Lincoln's cheek. Any opinions on that?
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Monchmant wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:10 pm Thanks for the video. As mentioned, all 64 of my 1963D coins have the L on the rim. Besides that, I also found another coin that has this strike mark on Lincoln's cheek. Any opinions on that?
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#9 Unread post by Earle42 »

Save Yourself time, effort, and disappointment...don’t learn the coin hobby backwards.
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Most odd looking things on coins are just post mint damage. So looking for random anomalies on coins and hoping they match up to something collectable will take you a lot more time, wasted effort, and disappointment repeatedly finding out you have nothing but post mint damage or useless machine doubling, die deterioration, etc.

Spend some initial time at places like error-ref.com, doubleddie.com, varietyvista.com, conecaonline.org, coppercoins.com etc. to find what actual and collectable coin errors look like.

A good way to start is, for instance, separate a bunch of pennies by date. Go to varietyvista.com and, date by date, use the reference there to see what errors are known for that specific coin/mint mark. Look for those specific errors/varieties using the pictures provided. After doing this for awhile you will KNOW what an actual error looks like and not have to waste time on face value and damaged coins. :)
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