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PCGS cent planchet split. The planchet split in half, and was never struck. Scarce. 1.68 Grams.   Generally scarce as an unstruck split planchet.    AU55

PCGS 1934 wheat cent broadstruck, with the coi being a medium size. A high grade example of an earlier date broadstrike, and very scarce in this high a grade. MS65 Red/Brown

PCGS 1909 VDB Lincoln wheat cent with a retained cud on the reverse at 3 o'clock. The first year of the wheat cent, and a popular and scarce year for errors.   AU details cleaned

NGC 1c 197X Lincoln cent off-metal double-struck on a clad dime blank, and with a weight of 2.3 grams. The Lincoln cent was double-struck off-center on the dime blank and has a uniface reverse on the off-center strike. Very dramatic in appearance, be…

PCGS 1972-S Lincoln cent struck 55% off-center at 12 o'clock. A scarce date/mint for off-center cents.    MS64 Red/Brown with problem-free, pleasing surfaces on the obverse, and a minor counting wheel mark reverse.

PCGS 1c 1963 Lincoln cent struck 75% off-center at 12 o'clock. A very scarce date for major off-centers, and this is a superb example!   MS64 Red with pleasing, lustrous surfaces. 

PCGS (1943) Lincoln steel cent struck 40% off-center. The coin is a major example of an off-center, and has nearly a perfect amount of design and planchet showing. Excellent eye-appeal as an off-center strike.    Although no date is visible…

PCGS 1909 VDB Lincoln wheat cent with a retained cud on the reverse at 3 o'clock. The retained cud occurred when a piece of the die broke away, but still remained loosely in place. When the coin was struck, the result is a shifted, raised area of met…

NGC 1958 Lincoln wheat cent overstruck on a 1958 1 centavo. The coin shows the designs of both the 1958 wheat cent and the 1958 1 centavo, with traces of the 1c design visible under the cent's design.    The error occurred when a 1958 1c wa…

PCGS 1943 wheat cent late stage die cap strike. The coin was struck through a die cap, resulting in a die cap strike with portions of the design missing or indistinct.    A very popular year for major mint errors, being a 1 year only steel.…

PCGS Lincoln wheat cent with a late stage brockage die cap strike. The brockage is seen across the coin's surfaces.    AU58 Brown with some planchet "stains." 

PCGS Lincoln wheat cent with an off-center brockage die cap strike. The brockage was made by a die cap that was formed from an off-center coin or which was simply a major, shifted die cap. Either way, neat and rare. AU55 Brown

PCGS 1984-D Lincoln cent with a fully unplated planchet. The coin is missing the copper plating on the obverse and reverse.  Fully unplated cents are eye-catching and popular due to the obvious difference in the coins' color, being zinc instead …

PCGS 1c 1944 wheat cent clamshell splti planchet, with the split from about 6-10 o'clock. Scarce. MS62 Brown

1937 wheat cent with a clamshell split planchet, with the split from about 9 to 2 o'clock. VF35

PCGS 1943-X steel cent late stage die cap strike, with the coin having much of the obverse design missing. There is a somewhat faint brockage of some of the words"CENT" and "UNITED STATES" on the obverse.  The error occurred when a die cap forme…

PCGS 1c 2021 shield cent with a very large retained cud on the obverse. It is an early stage of this cud. A well known an popular cud with a number of stages known.    MS64 Red with blazing luster.