hey guys and gals... I sent a large lot of error coins off to NGC and got quite a few neat coins back today. Here we have an 1956 D wheat cent that is %90 off center with an almost full date and mintmark. It's graded MS64brn.

What are the odds that a 90% off center has it's date still showing.

Bet that will quadruple the price of a non dated 90%.

the odds are not very good at all.... 1 in 100 %90 off centers maybe... it's a pretty rare off center.. It will prob end up in my personal collection because I just really like the coin

Bummer, I was hoping you might put it up here.

That really has to be one of the ultimate off centre errors, one with a date, but hardly anything else.

It looks to good to be true. Isn't it a tiny bit manipulated, or is that impossible? By that I mean that maybe someone tried his very best to end up with the ultimate dated offcenter coin, just be placing it by hand, untill it was just right?

Doesn't really matter, because we are now 50 years later, and now we have this special coin to talk about.

Everybody wins

Regards

Jos

If it were manipulated I would not want to be the one holding it in place when I turned on the presses! OUCH!!!

Very nice Matt, It's a great coin, still showing the date yet way off centre.

it could have been hand done... but that would require shutting down the press... and inserting the blank into the chamber in the right position.... which would prob. take a few tries to get it right and then striking the coin only to pocket it and take it out. I doubt that is the case as the stopped press would get someones attention. With errors it's anyones guess.... there are recognized cases of mint employees intentionally making proof errors (double strikes.... multi strikes) and dropping them into the oil pan of one of the many fork lifts at the mint only to have a friend who happens to service the fork lifts off site remove them and sell them on the coin market. In the US mint they now put screens in the openings of the oil pan of the fork lift for that reason...a little trivia...

I am excited about another coin i sent in last week... I purchased an 1945 wheat cent that was a flip over double strike in collar.... I am excited to get it back in a month or so

http://www.coinpeople.com/1945-Flip-Over-D...ent-t14154.html

A great coin. I'd keep it in my collection as well.