2025 Lincoln Cent Error Searching Guide: Unsurpassed and Comprehensive

By: McDonald, Stan

2025 Lincoln Cent Error Searching Guide
Error coins from searching over 325,000 circulated Lincoln cents have resulted in the discovery of more than $3,000 in valuable coins. The most valuable errors located by roll searching are listed in a chapter with photos and descriptions, including a NGC-graded MS66 2019 DDO and 1988 wide AM Lincoln cents. With this guide, you will be successful in locating error coins.

Contact: An email address is provided for collectors to ask questions and help identify a potential error coin.

Accreditations:
60 years of numismatic expertise
Authored articles for coin magazines
ANA contributions
Error coin submissions to NGC

On-line Coin Presentations
There are many catchy internet coin presentations enticing collectors about finding rare and valuable coins in circulation. If you come across a book that claims a collector can find error coins such as a 1969-S or 1972 doubled die cent in circulation, they are not dealing with the facts. In both cases the authors are not being forthright.

What can really be found in circulation? Most of the errors in circulation are minor; however, there are errors that are overlooked because detection requires an error reference or experience with error detection. A chapter for common errors found in circulation is presented along with a chapter with interesting error discoveries. The rule of thumb for us not to send any error coin for third party grading unless the coin will exceed the cost of encapsulation.

Misinformation
Misinformation about error coins is commonly found on the internet. This guide references all error coin types with descriptions and photos validated with associate numismatists. Included are photos of doubled die and RPM coins since 1909.

Included in this guide:
Three major error categories: die, planchet, and striking errors
Realized error coin values.
Error coin descriptions and photos
DDO, DDR, and RPM error photos
Glossary of numismatic terms

Common Errors Located in Circulation with Photos and Descriptions
BIE Die Break
Counter Stamped
Die Abrasions
Cracked Planchet
Defective Rim
Die Chips
Die Cracks
Die Deterioration
Double Rim
Lamination
Misaligned Dies
Missing Details

Interesting Error Coin Finds
Photos of error coins located from circulation with descriptions of the error.

Tools for Error Detection
There are thousands of error coins and varieties in circulation worth hundreds of dollars. Errors on coins are not always apparent, and others are difficult to see without magnification. A hand-held microscope, a weigh scale, PowerPoint, and a large screen monitor provide the collector with the best tools for error coin searching. These techniques allowed us to find the 2019 DDO Lincoln cent, which was graded as MS66 and yielded $250 at auction and a counterstruck coin sold at auction for $80.

Collectors can identify transitional error coins with a weighing scale. The mint standard for the weight of a copper-coated zinc Lincoln cent is 2.54 grams. The standard weight of a copper cent is 3.11 grams. The valuable transitional error coins that could still be circulating are the 1982-D and 1983 copper cents.

Error Coin Photos
The photos in this book will help identify the modern-day error coins in circulation. Doubled die and RPM errors can be challenging to identify when the doubling is minor.

Additional Information
Included is an appendix describing the types of doubled die errors with photographs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D1Y1C5GQ
• ISBN13: 9798323076369
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"