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Is it a wheatie or a memorial reverse?

Chris

 

Without seeing the reverse to confirm that it is a LMC, I think it is perhaps a 1983.

 

I'll guess a 1993 but it would be nice to see the reverse.

 

What ever the date, it's 'damaged goods' and as such, not enticing to collect.......

 

In that condition the date doesn't matter as it's only worth one cent.

 

I know it's damaged, but at least it's important for me to know or have opinions about your date

 

Now you have opinions. So... Is it a memorial reverse?????

 

Well, it is no 1983

 

looks like a 9 on the other. end to me,

 

the same to me

 

39 maybe

 

I can attribute this one to a narrower date range than that wheatie.

The ID is made by recognizing the portrait as belonging to Julia Domna and corn ears and long torch as belonging to Ceres.


Julia Domna, AD 193-217.
Roman Æ as, 13.49 g, 27.6 mm, 5 h.
Rome, AD 198.
Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.
Rev: CERES S C, Ceres standing left, holding corn ears and long torch; altar at feet, left.
Refs: RIC 870; BMCRE 781; Cohen 19; RCV 6636; Hill 346.

Here's the example in the British Museum for comparison:

 

I have an appreciation for beautifully mutilated coinage and this is another nice example. Worn and mutilated coins have completed their economic duties (or perhaps run over by heavy machinery, or both).

My first impression, before seeing the reverse, was 1959, now I know that's impossible. Looking at pictures of undefiled 1939 cents, the shape of the third number from left doesn't really match all that well. The number may be just too mutilated to compare it to better preserved specimens. Nonetheless, I would have to go with either a "2" or a "3," purely through elimination of "1" and "4." Given that the final number really looks like a "9," that should rule out "5" as well.

Another possibility is that the cent was tooled or messed with in some way - perhaps someone had some fun playing around with the date? I inherited a bunch of wheaties a while back from someone who had access to a machine shop and metalworking tools and I could tell that the person, or someone, had a good time messing with the dates and letters on many of the coins. Some of them even resemble the coin posted.

 

Maybe 1919,1929,1939. Harshly cleaned and environmentally damaged.

 

in the afternoon I will post photos before being cleaned by me. It was silly to have cleaned it ...

 

It was also my first impression, that's why I did not upload photos on the back.

 

Sometimes coins have to be cleaned. Like when I dig one up. If it is a modern face value coin, there's no problem with cleaning it. If your coin had numismatic value,
it still can be cleaned (conserved properly). But if it had that value, and was cleaned improperly, then that value is lost.
Unless this was a 1909 S or a plain 1909 VDB, considering the condition, there wasn't much value to conserve anyway.