Error Off-Center | Off center strike.

[makecents]

I recently bought a large mixed coin lot that this was in. I've never had one in hand, they are pretty neat. It looks to be a zinc coin from the 80's.

[retiredcopper]

Very nice find! I have searched millions of pennies in the past and have never found one. Congrats.

[makecents]

Very nice find! I have searched millions of pennies in the past and have never found one. Congrats.

I wish I could take credit for finding while searching. It was in a large mixed silver coin lot of mid 1800's coins I was interested in and was in a 2x2 flip already. It was a peculiar lot with mostly silver but a few odd coins, like the off center Lincoln with it.

[mustbebob]

back in the days when you could get bags directly from the mint, you could find many off center specimens. I had two bags in particular that were particularly generous. A 1995P 5000 coin bag had 43 off centers in it, and a 1999P bag had 68. Needless to say, quality control procedures were not working too well back then.

[joel]

Never saw one of those in hand but your pics are just about as good!! Very cool!!

[makecents]

back in the days when you could get bags directly from the mint, you could find many off center specimens. I had two bags in particular that were particularly generous. A 1995P 5000 coin bag had 43 off centers in it, and a 1999P bag had 68. Needless to say, quality control procedures were not working too well back then.

That must have been very cool to run across that many! Where I search bank rolls, predominately, I will never see one in the wild.

Never saw one of those in hand but your pics are just about as good!! Very cool!!

Thanks, Larry! It's a very cool error.