Dug out some wheat pennies I put away 50 years ago, and I came up with this. It looks to me like two mint marks under the primary. I was unable to pair it up with anything on the coin sites. Any ideas? Thanks: Lou
It looks more like a die chip but it could be an RPM. Either way it’s a nice find and not worth much do keep looking.
The extra thickness is because the mint mark was damaged as previously stated. Look closely and you can see where the hit occurred and it flattened out the way it did. Hint:The blow came from the left side. Add in the 2 die chips and ....
O.K., let's see. Since the hit came in from the left, I think the dark area to the center is where the hit spread the center of the 2. I expect this also caused the damage below the left center to the tail. The impact must have been pretty hard, or caused just after the coin was minted. This would also be responsible for the doubling under the tail. The chip appears to be from another hit, tho if the hit was hard enough it could have happened at the same time. The line, under the front bottom curve I would have said came from the initial hit, but it's straight not curved as I would have expected. I'm at a loss to explain what looks like a small tree stump to the bottom left of that line. Could the small lines emanating from the front of the bottom curve going wsw to ese be from another hit? Over analyzed ?
You may want to go to vatiety vista check out Lincoln mint mark styles. As the same style punch wasn't used from 1909 on... the styles changed....over the years.
The first part is probably correct but not about the chip. The hit that flattened tgg he e mint mark also hit the lower curve of the S. That’s why that is flat. It didn’t take a hard hit as the center did. There was one large or two small fie chips. Part of the die was missing when the coin was struck. The S mint mark was done after minting by a hand punch. It was partially affected by the damage from the hit.
The left pic is listed as 1951 the one on the right is 1952. Gotta say mine looks more like the 1952 style on the bottom (right pic) and the 1951 style on the left.
No yours is the trumpet tail....again wiith die chips underlaying. The two mm are as different as night and day.
A fifty-year memory nothing wrong with that. Put it back and allow your heirs to see what you collected through the years. Thanks for the share and good luck!
Coins are a great way to express yourself, as long as you can back up what you say... As for me, my choice of coin collecting is to find or buy coins that are in the best shape that you can find for your collection. Many members of the coin collecting community dig deep into the condition and source of coins. I like to acquire the coin with the best condition that can be found or bought. However, I am working on my collection of "Wheat" cents. I have many holes in my "board", so, while I am searching for a specific "Wheat" cent, I search for "missing" Jefferson nickels for my nickels board, and so forth, however, my main goal is to find specific "Wheat" cents. So... Keep posting. It tells me things that teach me many things about "coin collecting"
Thanks, obviously I'm learning as well. I enjoy searching through coin rolls to see if I can find anything interesting. I do find a number of die cracks and such - which someday I may put up on ebay. As for the wheat cents I put away 50 years ago, they were just wheat cents I pulled out of change. Haven't found much yet - but I did find this '54 with a die break on the reverse. Thanks: Lou
