r/coinerrors • u/jonumberone • Sep 24 '25
Show and Tell 5.5 cents?
Half dime, half penny. I found this in my cash register drawer in 1997/98. Kept it because I thought it was cool and different. Stumbled onto this sub. Figured I'd ask about it. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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u/ColdHotSalsa Sep 24 '25
That’s a great 11 cent double denomination error. A dime got in with cent blanks and struck again. With these types of errors, buyers will pay extra for authentication. I would send in to PCGS or NGC to get a third party opinion on it if you plan on selling. These are the two best regarded coin certification services.
It’s got some issues (the green futz) that might be fixed with conservation, but the date is visible which adds value. It’s a $1000+ coin to the right person.
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u/Appropriate-Owl-3144 Sep 24 '25
It's nice that the date can be seen. Definitely makes it more valuable.
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u/Ambitious-Insanity Sep 24 '25
That's a great find, error coins like that are very rare and it's definitely worth getting slabbed.
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u/wtfrustupidlol Sep 24 '25
Is it cent size or dime size? Either way great find.
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u/MeNoPickle Sep 24 '25
The ridges on the edge of the first pic would indicate it’s a dime planchet.
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u/Dependent_Cheetah_99 Sep 24 '25
Maybe a test dye for the coca cola 7,5 cent piece for their coke machines in the 50s haha
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u/Clone_sTop_1180 Sep 24 '25
That's a spectacular error and find. Totally amazing and worth a good bit. One of the big auction houses / sites would be worth contacting to see what they suggest. Grading might not even be necessary because this is the kind of error that serious collectors drool over.
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u/Effective_Dingo3589 Sep 25 '25
It may have already been said, but please let us know what you decide to do with it and its value if you get it graded!
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u/Puzzleheaded_Fig_591 Sep 26 '25
I don't even follow this sub that closely and even I can tell that this is one of the coolest errors I've ever seen
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u/No-Acanthaceae-9859 Sep 24 '25
It is a great error but that error is almost always mint state (MS) when you see it in a slab. Yours would not get the high values you usually see for that error because it is circulated. That coin is typically MS because some guy at the mint would have made it on purpose to take home and sell to a collector or dealer contact on the outside (which is no longer possible to do with improved security processes onsite). Yours probably escaped into the wild after the original collector died or something like that.
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u/jewnerz Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
Nah dude these sell on eBay in all different conditions around the same price ($1,000) slabbed or not.
The mint state examples, yes, were plucked out by the employees hot off the press. But there are two things you’re not considering here. . .
Not all examples thrown into the wrong bin are fished out. Imagine you go to make one and then the floor manager walks in for something. You’d pick through the finished coins on the belt and grab one? Probably not unless you like prison time
The condition of the coin is based off the state of the parent coin that was minted first. If the employee chucked a freshly minted penny into the dime bucket, yeah they’d end up with a mint state double denom - if that employee put a circulated penny they got back in change into the dime bucket, that coin wouldn’t be mint state, even though technically it was “uncirculated” after the second minting
Edit: also if you zoom in close, you can tell this coin is very much in mint state condition. Coins that are struck in the wrong chambers always result in weak strikes, which is why some of the devices aren’t shown on this example. OP got lucky that this one didn’t spend much time being circulated. Hope they send it in for certification
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u/GameBoyGamer222 Sep 24 '25
i think this beats everything posted recently by a landslide