103 Days of Lincoln Cents

I can see the 73D at 67 but not the P.

No offense to you slab guys, but the TPG's don't grade memorial cents correctly. I really think they just don't care. The desparity between wheat and memorial grades is unbelievable. They also tend to ignore strike issues with memorials....one of my pet peeves.

 

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I agree re. the P... that reverse limits to 66 max imo.. add the finger printer and I'd have guessed 65,, maybe even 64.

 

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1973

 

1973....angled shots show the quality best.

 

i know we've moved past the 60s, but can someone tell me the year??? i can't quite read it.

 

Cool clipped cent.

We can eliminate 4 years in the 1960's.
I can tell you that it's not a 1965, 1966, or 1967 since no D mintmarked cents were made those years.
And it's not a 1969, since the pointy peak of Lincoln's hair (on top of his head) points to the left of the W in WE. (if it was a 1969, it would point directly at the W in WE).

So that leaves only six possible dates: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1968.

Maybe with a better close up of the obverse, I could tell if that last digit was a 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 8.

 

I call this one "Tipsy Lincoln", since Lincoln looks like he has some face flush (and a red/purple nose) from drinking ... even the air in front of his mouth looks like it's full of alcohol fumes. This was the best I could do in terms of finding a colorfully toned 1974-S Proof. The 1970's and later are TOUGH years for toners. You just don't see much out there at all in the color realm.

 

Today's offerings are a NGC MS67RD 1974 obv and rev and a NGC MS67RD 1974D obv and rev

 

They were sure busy polishing those dies in Denver!

 

74

 

1974 - Another tough coin to find without hits, black spots, strike issues, etc. I found this one in an OBW....and I opened a crapton of them to find this one. It's a super blazer with orange peel fields. It jumped out at me when I poured out the roll.

 

1975-S Proof Lincoln Cent (PCGS PR65BN). The only PCGS-graded "BN" color class Proof Lincoln Cent from the year 1975 that is cataloged. A unique and very rare coin.

 

A couple more MS67R

 

Currently at PCGS.

 

Today's offering are a NGC MS67RD 1975 obv and rev and a NGC MS67RD 1975D obv and rev

 

Today's offering is a NGC MS67RD 1976 obv and rev