My 1968-S Lincoln

I looked though a TON of rolls to find this coin. I'm a nut about Memorial cents will full steps and this coin met my standards for quality and having full, complete steps. Browsing the top grades at ha.com I didn't see a single 68-S with full steps. IMO, this coin is truly special.

Sorry to collectors of the future for cracking open probably close to 100 OBW rolls to find this one coin. LOL I actually pulled 4 coins out of the roll I got this from that had full steps. This one was the best of the bunch for eye appeal and grade. I sold the other 3.

Go ahead and give a grade! It looks a lot better in hand. It has absolutely blazing, cartwheel luster.

 

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BadThad

All I can say is WOW
Very Nice

Terry

 

That one is nice, better than the one I have, which has been upgraded like three times so far. I want to see a 1977 cent with steps that nice.

A couple little rim ticks, some marks in abes jacket I will say it is a 67 or 68, the reverse seems practically flawless.

 

Not much of a Lincoln fellow, but I enjoy grading and hazarding a guess. Clean fields with a small rim shot by liberty on the obverse. Exquisite mark free reverse other than what looks to be like a hit on the "I" in united......I'd hazard a '65.

 

Thanks guys!

Impossible for a 77 to have full steps. The master was worn. I've searched perhaps a thousand 77's and FS examples simply do not exist. Similarily, the 2006 Lincoln cent is pretty much impossible to find with FS. Again, after searching many, I have one that is real, real close.....but not good enough to call FS.

I venture to say finding a 68-S with FS is a very, very difficult task and made a bit harder by being the lowest mintage Memorial cent. I looked a a lot of high grade example on ha.com and NONE of them I saw had FS.

 

Nice one. Either NGC or PCGS will give that at lest a 66 and my guess is NGC would give it a 67. PCGS about 50/50 between 66 and 67

 

Sweet !

 

Segs:MS 74 LOL

 

"Segs" da "dregs"......

 

That's a heck of a coin.

 

Do want.

My 68-S was a roll find... two hits on the steps are the only thing holding it back from having full steps. Fantastic strike.

I really, really love those 1960's high relief cents.

 

Nice coin indeed.

 

Nice.

This is a tough date and there are lots of others as well.

 

I have a lot to learn, I just told myself to put the memorials away. Then again, if I can find some quality clear cent tube material with clear caps. I might go through the rolls.

based on some the coinfact memorials they have posted. 66 all day long.

this is what PCGS is giving a 65 to.

 

That is a tough coin to find. I remember when I was kid filling my witman book and that was the last one to find. I must have been through hundreds of dollars of rolls to find one. I think I have about seven in all. It used to frustrate me so much lookin for them because I would find older wheat cents that were much lower mintage.

 

Are you going to have it slabbed? My guess is MS 65.

Fifty, I agree. The Lincoln cent Whitman folder was my first foray into coins when I was a kid, and it took me over 25 years to fill it up. The '68-S was my next-to-last find. The '70-S small date was the last one, and that's such a hard one to attribute I bought one that was already certified.

 

Nice coin! MS-65
http://www.pcgs.com/PRICES/PriceGuideDetail.aspx?MS=1&PR=1&SP=1&c=45&title=Lincoln+Cent

 

Wow, I got my '68-S in the second box I went through. Guess I'm just lucky.

 

Keep in mind, the 1968-S is the lowest mintage Memorial cent and it was widely hoarded. There's not a lot of them in circulation. I do a lot of searching and I haven't found very many in the wild. It's pretty exicting to find one while searching, especially in the midwest.

 

Probably not going to slab it, I think 67 might be out with the obverse rim hits. The one by the date is deep. There's also a few light hits on the reverse pillars. But....the luster is screaming...so on a good day at the graders who knows. If I do, I should sumit a few 65's along with it to help skew their opinion.