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<p>[QUOTE="lkeigwin, post: 1308842, member: 30400"]<font size="3"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Times">As far as I know there are collectors for anything. My Lincolns and IHC's are simply date/MM sets. I don't chase varieties or die states. Someone here probably has a better answer for you.</font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Times"><br /></font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Times">As for die breaks, I don't think the IHC's are special. Sure, the early dates in a serious might be more prone to it. Stands to reason experience striking the series and improved tooling would enhance die survival. (When the Mint moved away from soft copper large cents to small, harder copper alloys with the Flying Eagle it learned some things about strike and die survival. It is believed to be the reason for a very short FE series and among the reasons for the short copper-nickel IHC period.)</font></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Times">Lance.</font></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lkeigwin, post: 1308842, member: 30400"][SIZE=3][COLOR=#222222][FONT=Times]As far as I know there are collectors for anything. My Lincolns and IHC's are simply date/MM sets. I don't chase varieties or die states. Someone here probably has a better answer for you. As for die breaks, I don't think the IHC's are special. Sure, the early dates in a serious might be more prone to it. Stands to reason experience striking the series and improved tooling would enhance die survival. (When the Mint moved away from soft copper large cents to small, harder copper alloys with the Flying Eagle it learned some things about strike and die survival. It is believed to be the reason for a very short FE series and among the reasons for the short copper-nickel IHC period.) Lance.[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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