I just wasn’t going to find a nickel struck on a penny planchet loose change. I has happened yet. I don’t expect it to happen in the future.

Both!

VinnieC,

Typically they need to be in a high grade for them to be worth anything. The higher the denomination, the greater the value too. I did soak the 2018-P in Linders Coin Cleaner. Most of the spots came out. I think they were glucose (sugar) based. But, the abrasion in the field at 4 O-clock on the obverse remains. Not worth slabbing, but worth keeping. However, if slabbed, the TPG would designate the error type (embedded metal, die scratch).

True Dat.

VinnieC,

I’m all for finding them in my change. But buying them is a different story.

Craig,

That 2001-D is currently up for auction at Heritage – $7,200 was the last bid. However, the obverse has a fingerprint.

I miss the days before Fred Weinberg retired. Going to his booth at a coin show was like visiting a candy store. I think he would often have similar Roosevelt/Lincoln mules. They were just spectacular. I would look at the price and then look at the penny on the dime planchet. Ultimately I settled on a PCGS AU55 nickel on a penny planchet. So to find the mule in pocket change would be incredible. The Royal Mint stamped out so many 20p no date transitional mules. Those could probably have been found in pocket change in the UK at one time. They still seem pricey even though there are so many of them.

I can’t tell if the 2018 is incuse and may be a strike through error. The second one doesn’t look incuse and seem like it is something on the die. Errors can be so hard to price sometimes.