I found a 1990 D penny. It looks much different from any other penny I've seen... almost looks gold. The color is much much different. The coin price guide I have doesn't even have any info about a D penny made in the last 15 or so years so I'm not sure what to think. Any advice would be helpful.
Denver mint is quite active, still produces cents. Without seeing the coin I guess it was plated outside the mint.one of the properties of gold is extreme mallebility ( sp ?)... so you can plate something like hundreds of square feet with an ounce of gold, thus it doesn't cost much to gold plate a coin.
There's no reasonable way for it to happen at the mint. It's not reasonable that the planchet is gold, it would have to be from one of those tenth ounce buillion coins, but I've never heard of that error occuring. It would be extremely and noticeably heavy if that were somehow the case.
A plated coin is almost certainly what it is, could be just polished in some manner also.
There are companies that try to market this stuff, in particular with state quarters, an ameateur can also experiment with it.
You'll find many of those 1943 steel cents that are plated later, also.
Very unlikely that it is anything of value.
There's no reasonable way for it to happen at the mint. It's not reasonable that the planchet is gold, it would have to be from one of those tenth ounce buillion coins, but I've never heard of that error occuring. It would be extremely and noticeably heavy if that were somehow the case.
A plated coin is almost certainly what it is, could be just polished in some manner also.
There are companies that try to market this stuff, in particular with state quarters, an ameateur can also experiment with it.
You'll find many of those 1943 steel cents that are plated later, also.
Very unlikely that it is anything of value.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/13/faceless.dollar.ap/index.html
Just read this on CNN today..........
FI
Just read this on CNN today..........
FI
The GOV is very smart....They knew people did not really want a bunch of Dollar coins in there pocket instead of bills.. So they purposely made some with errors and circulated them to create a " coin fever" knowing the media would pick it up and run with it. Some of the coins are going to be worth a couple of grand each , not a bad price to pay for huge Pub.
that's my theory
that's my theory
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The planchet is really no more significant than a planchet from a Sacagawea dollar, which you can get for $125. The only way to even tell the difference between the two is the edge lettering which wasn't used on the last attempt at a dollar coin.
The struck coin missing the lettering has a lot more potential.
Interestingly the lettered edge was used on our earliest coins from the 1790's to about the 1830's. Many errors exist with those... overlapping letters and such.
I don't think this was intentionally released to stimulate interest.
The dollar coin will never circulate as long as there is a dollar bill around. It will get thrown aside in drawer or something. They will be making this item with each president for some years to come.
Complete bonehead move motivated by political interests. Nobody wanted the full size Eisenhower dollar ( made shortly after his death), too damn big. The small dollar ( SBA) failed in 1979 ( they blamed confusion with quarter), so then make it gold-colored ( didn't work in 2000), won't work now,either. Its the same exact coin as in 2000, just a dead president instead of the Indian girl.
To circulate this thing, you have to do what the Canadians did ( they have the same thing, with a loon on it, call it a Loonie), then added a two dollar coin ( a twonie) and no paper money under $5. I'm still trying to figure out how that works at the Titty bar ?
The whole idea of a coin series with every president is insane. They basically just recently unloaded all those Sac dollars on Panama ( I think it was), where they like them.
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The planchet is really no more significant than a planchet from a Sacagawea dollar, which you can get for $125. The only way to even tell the difference between the two is the edge lettering which wasn't used on the last attempt at a dollar coin.
The struck coin missing the lettering has a lot more potential.
Interestingly the lettered edge was used on our earliest coins from the 1790's to about the 1830's. Many errors exist with those... overlapping letters and such.
I don't think this was intentionally released to stimulate interest.
The dollar coin will never circulate as long as there is a dollar bill around. It will get thrown aside in drawer or something. They will be making this item with each president for some years to come.
Complete bonehead move motivated by political interests. Nobody wanted the full size Eisenhower dollar ( made shortly after his death), too damn big. The small dollar ( SBA) failed in 1979 ( they blamed confusion with quarter), so then make it gold-colored ( didn't work in 2000), won't work now,either. Its the same exact coin as in 2000, just a dead president instead of the Indian girl.
To circulate this thing, you have to do what the Canadians did ( they have the same thing, with a loon on it, call it a Loonie), then added a two dollar coin ( a twonie) and no paper money under $5. I'm still trying to figure out how that works at the Titty bar ?
The whole idea of a coin series with every president is insane. They basically just recently unloaded all those Sac dollars on Panama ( I think it was), where they like them.
Canadians ?
You guys use this everyday,right ?
You kind of have to. If you buy a coffee for $2, and pay with a $5 bill, you then get 3 of these as your change, or one and a twonie, right ?[/quote]
Everyday, we didnt like it at first, but now I dont miss the $1 bills
I tell you the old change jar is a nice score every yr :lol:
Will these things ever be worth anything?
I have like 10 of them and 4 with consecutive serial #'s
You guys use this everyday,right ?
You kind of have to. If you buy a coffee for $2, and pay with a $5 bill, you then get 3 of these as your change, or one and a twonie, right ?[/quote]
Everyday, we didnt like it at first, but now I dont miss the $1 bills
I tell you the old change jar is a nice score every yr :lol:
Will these things ever be worth anything?
I have like 10 of them and 4 with consecutive serial #'s
No, the $2 bills with the signing of the declaration on the back will never be worth much, there are tons of them stashed away in crisp uncirculated condition. You can occassionally get a run of them at a bank in CU grade with consecutive numbers.
A dealer might pay $2.50 for them, but only if he had a buyer, most dealers wouldn't even want them.
You could ebay them, but there are probably already many sellers.
In 25 years there will be plenty still around, maybe they fetch $3 then. They are not worth holding onto for any anticipated appreciation. Its an item that will always be common. There aren't even great numbers of people that collect paper money ( compared to coins) to start with.
They make interesting tips, then the person receiving it often stashes it away for some more years...
I ask for them at the bank, and spend them.
Even the older ones ( red seal) aren't worth saving long-term, but can be sold for about $2.50 ( used) more if crisp.
A dealer might pay $2.50 for them, but only if he had a buyer, most dealers wouldn't even want them.
You could ebay them, but there are probably already many sellers.
In 25 years there will be plenty still around, maybe they fetch $3 then. They are not worth holding onto for any anticipated appreciation. Its an item that will always be common. There aren't even great numbers of people that collect paper money ( compared to coins) to start with.
They make interesting tips, then the person receiving it often stashes it away for some more years...
I ask for them at the bank, and spend them.
Even the older ones ( red seal) aren't worth saving long-term, but can be sold for about $2.50 ( used) more if crisp.
