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[Mel_in_PNW]

Hi all,

I've been going thru my circulated coins, just checking for proofs or anything else. I recently went thru a 100+ coins and noticed that for damn near everyone there's now a YouTube channel, eBay page, or similar saying something like "this 2023 Lincoln penny is worth $1000". I mean, nearly every coin. So I sifted thru my change and found these were the ones the crazy YouTubers were screaming about the most. I thought I'd go to the experts and see if any of these contain errors or similar. I do have a 1973 quarter that appears to have a flattened letter on the reverse but I'm assuming that's just wear and tear?  Thanks.

[Greenstang]

Don’t see anything there that is worth more than face value.   
Even if there was an error on the 2023 quarter, it certainly wouldn’t  be worth thousands.

[Coinbuf]

I see nothing in your photos to suggest that any of these is worth more than face value.   For a great many people it is easier to believe the dream than face reality, we have many of those types visit this site each week, youngmoola and vasquez j are prime examples from this past week.   Folks like that truly believe that if they say something enough times it must be true.

[Mel_in_PNW]

Thanks.

 

[powermad5000]

To ask specifically about a coin, it is much better to put each coin into its own post and also include a close up of the area(s) in question.

I am not sure what exactly what you are referring to on these coins that you think to be an anomaly/error/oddity. Maybe you could tell us by the year of each coin which side of the coin and what area we should be looking at.

[Henri Charriere]

On 3/8/2024 at 10:57 AM, Mel_in_PNW said:

....I thought I do have a 1973 quarter that appears to have a flattened letter on the reverse but I'm assuming that's just wear and tear?  Thanks.

While I am not licensed to practice coin-grading and am eminently unqualified to pass judgment on other members' coins, and Newbies in particular, I will offer two observations:  The number Seven in the date of the coin posted above appears to have been caught in mid-vibration as evidenced by the lower extremity. As you will likely not be able to persuade an expert to believe you may be the sole owner of an unknown DDO of a single number, all by its lonesome, I would attribute it to the inevitable result of metal pounding metal, i.e. slippage a/k/a machine doubling.  Rather than adhere to time-honored custom and dismissively sniff, "it is worthless," I will buck tradition and simply suggest it is not worth a premium.

As every letter on the reverse appears legible to me, that leaves only the mint mark and I neither know where or when it was repositioned from the reverse to the obverse and, if a product of the Philadelphia branch mint, when it made its debut.