After 66 years, my Lincoln Cent book, Part 1 is finished

Like many collectors I started with Lincoln Cents. One of my uncles gave me the 13th Edition of The Red Book and the two Whitman Lincoln Cent folders. Folder #1 (1909 to 1940) is long gone because I got a "Library of Coins" album to replace it in the mid 1960s.



Lincoln Cents have never been my top priority. While in high school, my interests ran toward gold coins, type coins and Indian Cents. Over time I gradually filled the old Lincoln album. The last regular issued I needed, appropriately enough, was the 1909-S-VDB. I bought that with ANACS papers (remember those?) in 1983. The ANA the called it a "VF-20." Later NGC graded it EF-45. NGC was closer to correct. That filled the album except for the 1922 Plain hole.

I viewed 1922 Plain cent as a die state which was not that important. When I was a dealer, I bought a set of Lincoln cents from the estate of a collector. There was a 1922 Plain in that set, raw, in VF-EF. I was going to keep it and put it in the album, but a dealer who saw it kept upping is offer on it, until he shot me “a price I could not refuse.”

Today I spotted a piece, with the Strong Reverse, which is only variety I would buy, in a PCGS EF-45 holder at my local club show. After some thought, I decided to buy it. So now the old Lincoln Cent album is complete. I’m not going to crack it out. There will be two holes in the album for the 1909-S-VDB and 1922 Plain which are both slabbed. But after 66 years the collection is complete.

 

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Congrats!! Finished mine a couple of years ago. A real sense of accomplishment!!