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    OUR DIME/PENNY???

    Well hello to everyone,

    Again we have no answers on this coin we found in circulation. We posted this awhile ago and we sent this coin to PCGS, This is what they said:
    (20235052 11111 Various, Various, Error - US 87 - Not Eligible For Selected Service).

    Now what we know only is they will NOT certify this coin and describe the coin....PCGS DID NOT put a code (90) NOT GENUINE. They said U.S. Error code (87). Please again if anyone can tell us or give us answers on this coin, that would be great. Also if the coin has to be sent else where to be looked at to list as a new mint error, that information would be great.

    Thanks Jim.
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    Collecting is time consuming, but at the end it's worth every penny!
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    Originally posted by jmcoinz View Post
    Well hello to everyone,

    Again we have no answers on this coin we found in circulation. We posted this awhile ago and we sent this coin to PCGS, This is what they said:
    (20235052 11111 Various, Various, Error - US 87 - Not Eligible For Selected Service).

    Now what we know only is they will NOT certify this coin and describe the coin....PCGS DID NOT put a code (90) NOT GENUINE. They said U.S. Error code (87). Please again if anyone can tell us or give us answers on this coin, that would be great. Also if the coin has to be sent else where to be looked at to list as a new mint error, that information would be great.

    Thanks Jim.
    Jim are you sure this thing is not silver instead of zinc? you can easily test it with the silver acid test by putting a tiny drop of the acid on the rim without hurting this object very much. if this is zinc then what you have is a piece that someone has been playing around with.

    a lot of folks is always trying new experiments with coins to see what it makes them look like. the only possible way your item could be real is for it to be a struck thru die cap on a silver or maybe even it could be a clad planchet. Then it would have to had been lost many years under the ground for it to get this much pitting on it if it is silver.

    either way I can tell you that no coin grading service would ever grade this thing even if it was a confirmed mint error because it just has too much of what looks like environmental damage.

    another thing I can tell you that I'm sure of is that this piece is not on a cent planchet unless done outside of the mint because a cent planchet will not fit into a dime coining press.

    Jim you need to remember that there are folks out there that can make fake coins that looks so real they can sometimes even get them past any grading company.I'm not trying to say that what you have is not a real mint error because I have never seen it in person. I can just see that one possibility of it being real that I mentioned.

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      rascal thanks for your reply and i do have a gram scale and it is a zinc core planchet. Its 2.5 grams and its no zinc shown....i am going to send a side view photo so you can see just alittle bit better.
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      • #4
        In this case then my opinion would be that someone has used a crude home made dime die to strike a blank cent planchet. compare the diameter of your item to a cent or cent planchet to see if it may be a tiny bit larger in diameter. usually if someone alters a coin by pushing or pressing the design into it this may make it larger in diameter than normal due to the metal being pushed out of shape. a soft temporary die that will strike a few coins can easily be made by folks that tinkers with the coins just for fun, sometimes the altered coins make it back into circulation.

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