Just Bob

This is incorrect. The 2.5 gram copper coated zinc cent was first minted in 1982. There were 7 different types minted that year, including four types that weighed 2.5 grams. If you will enlarge the picture that James posted above, you will see the different types. All of them are common. You really need to get the dollar signs out of your eyes. If you want to become a coin collector, that is great. We will welcome you and help you as much as we can. If you want to get rich quick, I suggest you try to find another way.

This coin has an impressive provenance. Do you remember who submitted it to NGC originally, and do you recall the grade?

It may contain some silver - pewter sometimes does - but it is still a copy.

Do not depend on Youtube for truthful information on coins. It is full of scammers and liars.

This is why I take issue with the SP designation. Yes, the coin is very well struck, but if I am going to create a specimen, either for my own set or to give as a presentation piece, why choose a planchet that may not look good after striking? And, once the coin is struck, why not put it in circulation and try again to mint a better looking coin? If it can be proven to have been the first coin struck, then, fine, give it a grade, and designate it accordingly. But don't just assume it was struck as a specimen, or call it that, just because it looks different from the other known examples.

It does appear to be a planchet flaw or a struck-through. I am not sure if that affects the technical grade, but it does affect the eye appeal, in my opinion. Not trying to low-rate your coin, but I have to agree with Roger about the 68. The toning is quite pretty, and the surface is very well preserved, but I think it is over graded. I wouldn't go as low as 65, but I would call it a 66 or 66+ by today's standards.

"The new owner is thrilled" sounds like GC bought it for a client. I am curious to see if the name will be released in the near future. If I remember correctly the reserve for this coin was $7 million - or about $8 1/4 million with juice - when it failed to sell in 2020. $12 million is quite a hefty jump up from there. Congrats to Bruce and to the new owner.

I am still trying to work out how this was made. The "interior reeding" - for lack of a better term - above the portrait would almost certainly have had to come from being pressed by another coin with a reeded edge. However, the partial lettering and designs could have happened due to a flip-over double strike, although it would have had to have landed back in the collar perfectly. I can't seem to reconcile the two different occurrences. This one has me baffled.

Interesting countertop. I would like to watch that being made.

While I hesitate to do anyting to encourage the incoherent ramblings of your other posts, I do believe in giving credit where credit is due. You have obviously spent many, many hours searching for the tiniest anomaly. In this case, it apparently paid off. Congratulations. Your name and your discovery are now recorded for posterity.

In 1899, Charles McCorkle opened a general store in Booneville, Mississippi. He ran the store until his death in 1938 at the age of 70. The Mississippi token book lists and pictures a 5 cent token - unique when the book was written - and also states that one ten cent token is known to exist. I don't know if this is that one, or if this is another one. I also have seen a one dollar token, which is not listed in the book. Seller's pics. I just bought this one, and it has not arrived yet.

Many collectors are probably like me: I will buy errors that are part of the series that I collect, but I don't make a point to find or collect errors in particular. Some errors. like rotated or cracked dies, are actually quite common in some series of tokens. I don't really think yours is an accidental error, though. This is just me speculating, but it looks like yours was overstruck intentionally, like someone at the manufacturer was adjusting the spacing on the dies, and grabbed an extra token that happened to be on hand. I could be completely off base, though.

I think I remembered reading something about a weakly struck variety for that year, so I got out my Snow book and laid it on the couch, to look at when we got back from going to a friend's house to eat. When I got home, I discovered that my wife's new rescue dog had eaten the cover and shredded many of the pages. I tried to find the 1857 pages and piece them together, but no luck.

And, the numismatic world will be richer for it, in my opinion.

Was someone at the mint drinking heavily? I don't see how someone could mistakenly confuse dies for a double eagle, a half, and a quarter with cent dies, unless it was intentional, or they were hammered.

That has to be one of the ugliest Barber dimes I have ever seen. I love it !!

Your piece was originally one of several varieties of Silver Stripe token. The Silver Stripe was a restaurant and lounge, located on University Ave. in St.Paul, Minnesota. It was owned by Fay Decker and Frank Glombitz. There is one piece known that was overstruck for the John T. Colbert Tavern, which reads: "JACK / C / 586." Yours appears to say " Steve / 7981 / Schwartz" on one side. I can't make out the lettering on the other side. It appears to have been overstruck more than once. Here is a picture of one variety of the Silver Stripe token, which closely resembles yours:

So, now, you have no life.

Welcome to the forum. Woods is correct. Your medal was minted by The Medallic Art Company of New York to commemorate the Nebraska Centennial in 1967. The reverse pictures the state capitol building. NGC has certified and graded four of the silver version - two MS67s and two MS68s. Here is a link to the bronze version's Numista page. I did not see a page on the silver version. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia191462.html

Clearer pictures would be a big help, but I have to say that it does not look promising.

Welcome to the forum. The 1943 cent was the only one minted in zinc coated steel. The three '43 cents - one with no mint mark, one with a "D," and one with an "S," should all be strongly attracted by a magnet. The 1944 was minted in bronze, which should not be attracted by a magnet. None are especially valuable, unless in almost perfect condition. And, by "almost perfect," I mean absolutely no wear, and only one or two tiny tics under 5X magnification. Additionally, replated steel cents are worth very little. If the edges are smooth and shiny, they have probably been replated

The Jackson-State National Bank was established in 1889, and remains open today as Trustmark National Bank. The bank printed three types and denominations of national currency, totaling $281,650. This piece was issued in 1939 to commemorate the bank's 50th anniversary.

Interesting story, but the article appears to have been written by 3rd grader, and cut and pasted by his little brother.