Got a couple of very shiny oldies in change the last week but can't seem to get a photo that really shows how shiny they are... I noticed them because even though they were almost as shiny and looked as brand new as the new 2019s they had a slightly different color which I could see but obviously not everyone else can otherwise they wouldn't still be in circulation... always amazes me to find shiny oldies in circulation and have to wonder if some kid took them out of their dad's collection to buy some baseball cards or something from the ice cream man
Can you single them out and show both sides of the coin? The backside (reverse) will help to see what type of grade the coins will be due to the stairs. Thanks.
The color is different because the older cents were composed of 95% copper and 5% tin and zinc. In 1982 the US Mint started making cents out of copper plated zinc. (Core is99.2% zinc, 08% copper, with a plating of pure copper).
I don't actually collect coins so the condition of the coins I find doesn't really matter... if I find an old or cool coin I just save it and put it in my Old Coin jar... But here are the reverse scans of the coins anyway.. a little scratchy but not too bad for being circulation for 50 years
Looking at these pennies again I noticed that the art is different, what year did they do a new Lincoln? I guess it had to be somewhere between 1964 and 1970...The nose is different, the hair is different.. I didn't realize they changed it .. did they do that a lot?
I hope it's not contagious... ;-) Will have to investigate further, I've never heard that term before.. Thanks for all the replies!!
The head was made slightly smaller in 1969 and again in 1982 along with other modifications throughout the years. (Info is in The Red Book). @Skippy Topaz, check this link: http://www.error-ref.com/progressive-indirect-design-transfer/
Businesses maintain some cash/coins on hand to make change for customers. Growing up I was a cook at a local restaurant where one of my duties was to fetch cash/coins from the strong box when the cashier needed something. I once heard the lovely sound of silver being dumped into the register and sprung into action. I claimed all the silver from behind the grill. I took my key out to get another roll of quarters from the strong box. Before inserting the key I claimed all the silver in the box. It ended up being a good day. $40 dollars worth of solid silver. Luckily there was one roll of non silver quarters. A roll of BU 1965. Point is this: where there are many there may be many more. That business may have a BU LMC dump. You’ll often see folks here in the CRH forum offer suggestions to newbies who stumbled onto a collection dump to go back to the source and buy them out. It’s a good tactic.
Now I'm convinced something is going on at that store... I just got this 1972 penny in change today... I'm starting to think these have been sitting in the bank vault that supplies them with their daily coinage
Yes it is a large date. But the date shows some form of doubling. I got this cent metal detecting and some poster caller me a liar. I tried to explain that sometimes, it's not buried, it's just under some wood chips. I've found over 11,200 pennies so sometimes a nice one sticks out.
I thought i seen doubling but thought it might be the light reflection. I look closer and the “s” look to have md but 1970 s rpm-002 or rpm-004. I’m leaning toward rpm-002. Hard to really tell for me
True doubling won't show in the MM. But I see what you are saying. The S looks funky as does the date.
Mike that ‘71 is really nice I can see why people say that..... but why is the date interesting. I think it really hard to tell if it’s really doubled. Are you looking at the “9” and “0” ?
I learned from someone on this forum that the 70 S in the Mint set is known for having an RPM. Here is mine shot through the OGP.