1972 s Brass Strike Error Penny !!! 1 1

[Baba Beck]

1972s  BRASS STRIKE

 

1972s Brass Strike Error

 

I am Baba Beck on You Tube..  Some ten years ago.. I prayed to GOD to help me and guide to what I can do in my spare time.. (Heavily into GOD already) My prayer was answered next day.. as I woke up and walked towards Walmart.. some folks were talking about some one SOLD a penny for 1.6 million Dollars.. and I heard and I asked again ..what.. they said YES.. like the penny's you find on the Ground... I went on RED ALERT and NEW World opened up for me..  again .. BY GOD choice.  3+ million views on just a handful of penny's I found so far.. some are worth Millions ... this ONE ..1972s  is well.. I just want to show it and hear what the experts might think of it..  IT came out of BOX that got shipped from Washington D.C...  lots of RAIN on the penny's for months. And box got broken and repacked. BUT I told myself I paid a $100.00 to have it shipped so I scrapped up all the LOOSE penny's corroded and decided to check ...towards the end of a mountain on my TABLE this coin came out.. and since I already have searched over a MILLION PENNYS via a magnifying glass..( found a few BRASS STRIKES including 1974 and more ) I new what fools GOLD looks LIKE.. I even weighted it and weight is lower than NORMAL and CLEAR indication of its BRASS!!  I have several coins penny's that Need to be Certified by NGC that command a Premium.  My entire collocation  is for SALE of course for 3.7 Million Dollars ,.maybe NGC can HELP !! Face to FACE Sale only. I made this POST to make sure that other folks may VOTE on the 1972s possibly being what I THINK it is... BRASS...  USA mint DOES not make BRASS cents but COPPER or Zinc cents. This would be a Astronomical ERROR on their part.. I feel. Please need your numismatic advise ... I am hoping this something that may command at least 5 figures on SALE !! I appreciate your voice and concern The Lincoln Cent is more wanted than GOLD or Diamonds in the USA. PLEASE.. Before I mail it FEDEX overnight to NGC.. I want to know what you think I found...its only fair and Good to do..even though what I might think. God Bless America\

Baba Beck

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P.S      I am now in TEXAS  and  have found too many   2022 D  Error that are Pretty...

[CrystalM CS]

Hello! It sounds like you have an interesting collectible on your hands. At this time, it would be extremely difficult to evaluate a coin from photos alone and we would need it submitted for grading before we could review it. We are sorry but we cannot further assist you with this question at this time. Thank you. 

[Just Bob]

Welcome to the forum. You asked what we think, so here are my comments:

1. The statement that the US mint does not make brass cents is true for cents made after 1982, but between 1962 (when tin was removed from the alloy) and 1982, all cents were made of brass, including your 1972-S. Look it up in the Red Book or on this website's Coin Explorer page. The composition is .95 copper and .05 zinc. That is the composition of brass. (here is the link to the NGC page, to make it easy for you: CLICK HERE)

2.  The people who told you about the coin that sold for over $1 million were wrong - it was not something you would find on the ground. It was an uncirculated 1943 cent on a bronze planchet, instead of the normal zinc-coated steel being used by the mint that year, that was authenticated and graded Mint State 63 by PCGS. There was also a MS64 1943-D Bronze planchet cent that sold for over $800,000 in 2021. (There are others, but these were the two highest priced examples I found.)  These are not just some common coins that would be found in a parking lot. They were well-preserved, rare examples that were handled carefully, and were sought after by serious collectors.

3. Your coin could very well be an off-metal strike, since these are known to happen, but I seriously doubt it would bring more than a few thousand dollars at most at auction, unless you found a couple of bidders who were really interested in it. Usually, it is the wrong-planchet transition coins - 1943, 1982, etc., that bring the big money, because some cent collectors feel they are necessary to have a complete collection. Wrong planchet errors are normally sought by error and variety collectors, and there are far fewer of those. (or, at least there were, until You-tube hype videos came along.)

4. You need to handle your coins by the edge. If that coin was actually something rare, getting fingerprints on it (and putting hairline scratches on it when you wipe it off) would certainly lessen the value.

5. We spend a lot of time on this forum warning people against Youtube videos like yours. They are full of misinformation and are designed solely to get clicks and "likes." You are doing this hobby a great disservice, and I, for one, do not appreciate it.

You asked for opinions - that is mine.

Edited December 19, 2022 by Just Bob

[Sandon]

   You appear to have a normal 1972-S cent, of which nearly 377 million were minted and worth less than a dollar in most uncirculated grades. The oils from your fingers are likely turning it brown and reducing whatever value it had toward face value. The disturbed area on the reverse appears to be damage. If it's an error, such as die chips, it's a minor one that grading services won't attribute.

  God helps the knowledgeable, not the misinformed and the gullible!

[VKurtB]

Sorry, but this OP is a con man. He also claims to own THREE 1964 SMS cents. There is no there there with this guy. 

Edited December 20, 2022 by VKurtB