I'm not good at grading, but I would say VF. So that's .25 according to the Redbook. So probably less than .25
I wouldn't describe it as "rare". There were 316,479,520 issued for circulation. Hard to grade from the pics, but it looks like a nice example. I'd estimate a value of less than a dollar.
ah.. ok..I thought it would be a bit more rare than that since copper coins from around the WW2 era were hard to find as they would use the copper for bullets rather than coins
And once we were in the war (December 8th 1941) we only conserved copper by making zinc-plated steel cents in 1943.
lol yes I know we werent in the war in 39...but its still close to that era and its my oldest lincoln cent.. I have a 1902 indian head tho
the 1939 cent is worth 10 cents if its in really good condition. as for the 1902 cent, $2 at the most.
This discussion raises a question for me. If many of the Lincoln cents are worth fairly small amounts of money (less than a dollar) it doesn't make sense to buy them individually on eBay (and it doesn't make much sense for anyone to sell them, either). Do any of you have any suggested strategies for getting a hold of a large number of common date Lincolns and paying something close to their actual value? I don't mean a large number of each coin; I'm talking about a large number of different dates and varieties.
Best way is to find a seller that combines shipping and just pick up as many as you can afford at the time. Then again, the honest dealer route is always good too !!
Thanks. That's kind of what I concluded. Fortunately, I have an honest dealer. I was able to get off to a good start. He sold me a Whitman album from an estate that had 190 Lincoln cents in it from 1909 through 1999. Just about everything after 1933 is mint state. It's missing all of the key dates, but I certainly didn't expect to find them.
