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EBay, Collectors, Flea Market & Antiques

no_hypocrisy

(49,343 posts) Sat Nov 7, 2020, 09:36 PM Nov 2020

I found a 1935 Mercury Dime stamped onto a (tails) Penny, likely the same year in my cash box today. [View all]

I believe this is called a double denomination and a Wrong Planchet Error Coin.

Does anyone have any information and/or history about this aberration?

I think it's cool.

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I found a 1935 Mercury Dime stamped onto a (tails) Penny, likely the same year in my cash box today. [View all] no_hypocrisy Nov 2020 OP

You might want to simply google that. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #1

like this ??? Trueblue1968 Feb 2021 #12

Really! I've never heard of such a thing soothsayer Nov 2020 #2

Oh, I don't think it's worth anything... Enterstageleft Nov 2020 #3

So this was a penny, with the mercury dime image stamped into the copper? House of Roberts Nov 2020 #4

Specifically, it's a silver Mercury 1935 dime stamped onto the back of a 1935 copper penny. no_hypocrisy Nov 2020 #7

It may be worth something, I would set it aside. If you have a coin dealer in your neck of the woods GemDigger Nov 2020 #5

Get it appraised, it might be worth something to collectors. 2naSalit Nov 2020 #6

Please post some pics, or at least a follow-up Polybius Feb 2021 #8

I don't know how to post photos from the phone on DU. no_hypocrisy Feb 2021 #9

Send a photo to Heritage Auctions in Dallas DFW Feb 2021 #10

Thanks! no_hypocrisy Feb 2021 #11

wow carolinadem May 2021 #13