Expert: Jim Lawniczak - 12/5/2006

Question
195- D penny missing the last digit. of any consequence? thanx for the expertise.  jeff

Answer
Hello, Jeff, I am not an expert on "error" coins, which this one might be.  I can give you some possibilities, though, for what might have happened: 1. someone (a curious boy usually) might have taken the last digit off, with acid or a knife, for example; 2. the piece was struck with some obstruction like a piece of lint so that the digit couldn't strike up; or 3. the piece was weakly struck at the missing digit so that it didn't strike up.  

If this is a mint error, it probably has some value as an error coin.  

You might try showing the piece to an expert at a coin show or coin shop in your area (try doing a search for that and your city on www.google.com).  You might try going to www.ebay.com and doing a search for error cent missing digit or some combination like that to see if someone is selling a piece like yours.

Hope this helped, Jim Lawniczak