https://coins.ha.com/itm/lincoln-ce...025.s?ic10=FeaturedItems-ItemImageDesc-040218 8 days left. Currently sitting at $192,000 with BP. I think it goes to $280K with BP
$315,000 There will some rich guy or girl that just has to have this trophy coin to show off for bragging rights.
Adding to the allure is the grease filled die and it being a woody. I'm going with $261,094.82 with BP of course
I really don’t have a clue. I heard it was found in circulation but I can’t believe it floated around this long, if it did. Treasures are still out there.
Not a penny. It's a *cent* Struck on bronze in a year it should have been struck on zinc plated steel.
IF in fact it was found in circulation, that doesn't mean its been floating around in circulation for 75 years. Odds are hugely in favor of it finding its way out of someone's prized collection after they passed away, or stolen, or possibly even someone releasing it for karma (highly unlikely, but hey, someone found it, right?).
I got a question. Is the theory on this a stray or leftover copper planchet struck in the normal course?
Buried in the listing under the NGC roster it says "25. AU50. Certification #366928-001, this was a prior certification of the present coin that still appears in the NGC Census as of 6/15/22." I don't know how old a 6-digit cert# at NGC is (or how they determined this is the same coin) but perhaps that's a clue for how long this one has been known. The blurb email I got from Heritage headlined it as "newly-discovered" and goes on to say "This is a previously unknown specimen", but the item description only says "No prior auction record." They're giving the impression that it was recently found roll hunting or something, but the reality is that it's probably been kicked around privately for a long time.
The story is in the auction link and coinweek link posted above, but essentially yes. The bronze planchets were stuck in the tote bins, leftover from 1942.
It's always been my suspicion that these were accidently struck from leftover planchets from 1942. In the same idea that the 1944 steel cents were struck from leftover steel planchets of 1943. However, "deliberately" has also been a word that hangs around certain errors. That also wouldn't surprise me with these either.