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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1411501, member: 4381&quot;][TABLE]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD]<a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/halfs/columbian_obverse.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/halfs/columbian_obverse.png" rel="nofollow"> <img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/halfs/columbian_obverse_sm.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> [/TD]</p><p>&nbsp;[TD] [h=2]Lincoln and Wheat Back Cents[/h] [/TD]</p><p>&nbsp;[TD] <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/halfs/columbia_reverse.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/halfs/columbia_reverse.png" rel="nofollow"> <img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/halfs/columbia_reverse_sm.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> [/TD]</p><p>&nbsp;[/TR]</p><p>&nbsp;[/TABLE]</p><p>&nbsp; Thu Apr&nbsp; 5 11:22:33 2012 [HR][/HR]&nbsp; Lincoln Cents are not a main focus of my collection but with more than a trillion examples minted in over a 100 years, it is inevetalbe that ever collect will accumumulate some Lincolns. In my case, my son has been filling out is Lincoln Cent folders and I&#039;ve aquired a few&nbsp; interesting examples as we filled his books.&nbsp; First of course is a classic 1909 VDB which nearly every collector has at least one superior example of.&nbsp; This is ours:</p><p><a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11252008/cent-1909-vdb_obv.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11252008/cent-1909-vdb_obv.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11252008/cent-1909-vdb_obv_sm.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11252008/cent-1909-vdb_rev.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11252008/cent-1909-vdb_rev.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11252008/cent-1909-vdb_rev_sm.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;The Lincoln Cent was the first regular business strike that was the result of Teddy Roosevelt&#039;s reworking of American Coinage which began with the Double Eagle.&nbsp; The original idea for the&nbsp; cent wasn&#039;t Lincoln but the Indian Design that finally ended up on the $10 single gold eagle. But with the advent of the 100th anniversity of the Republican Lincoln&#039;s Birthday coming, politics overrules for the current Republican President and for the first time a living person was instituted on a US coin with the Lincoln Cent, a precident I&#039;m not particulary happy with as today we can&#039;t get the dead Presidents off our coinage and US coin design is now&nbsp; stifled.</p><p>&nbsp;In 1958 the reverse was change to the Lincoln Meorial.&nbsp; Since 1982 most of the Copper has been removed from US coinage, and today we essentially have a zinc cent with a copper plate. The Design has also been upgraded and made more crisp.&nbsp; Here is an nice example of a 1995 which I lifted out of circulation:</p><p>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11252008/cent-1995-obv_sm.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11252008/cent-1995-rev_sm.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;This is a nice bright 1934.&nbsp; You have to wonder how these coins stay copper bright after decades.</p><p><a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc-1934_bright_red_obverse_2.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc-1934_bright_red_obverse_2.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc-1934_bright_red_obverse_2.350.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc1934_bright_red_obverse.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc1934_bright_red_obverse.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc1934_bright_red_obverse_350.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc1934_bright_red_obverse.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc1934_bright_red_obverse.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc1934_bright_red_obverse_350.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc1934_bright_red_reverse.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc1934_bright_red_reverse.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc1934_bright_red_reverse350.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> <img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11072008/linc_1909-vdb_on_keyboard.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[h=3]Steel Pennies (cents)[/h] Steel Cents have no specially value, and there are billions of them.&nbsp; But the Zinc and Steel in them was terrible combination and react causing the coins to corrode, and self destruct.&nbsp; So nice examples that haven&#039;t been&nbsp; electroplated are nice inexpensive finds <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/01142009/lincoln_1943_O_1.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/01142009/lincoln_1943_O_1.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/01142009/lincoln_1943_O_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/01142009/lincoln_1943_r_1.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/01142009/lincoln_1943_r_1.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/01142009/lincoln_1943_r_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/01142009/lincoln_1943_r_2.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/01142009/lincoln_1943_r_2.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/01142009/lincoln_1943_r_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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