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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2714759, member: 77413&quot;]The Lincoln cent series was <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-211#post-2627831" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-211#post-2627831">begun in 1909</a> to honor the centennial of his birth. Although the intention at the time was to have each design remain in use for 25 years, the wheat reverse ran for 50 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a comparison of the first and last wheat reverses. This is a business strike 1909 V.D.B and a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-223#post-2666086" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-223#post-2666086">proof 1958</a>.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]613763[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Lincoln Memorial reverse was introduced in 1959 to honor Lincoln&#039;s sesquicentennial year. Like the wheat ear design before it, the reverse remained stable for the full 50 years it was in use. Although there was a lengthy period when the proofs had almost <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-226#post-2689094" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-226#post-2689094">no definition of the memorial steps</a>, they eventually corrected this to produce a beautiful rendering of the Lincoln Memorial.</p><p><br /></p><p>This shows the first and the last proof reverses, with <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-223#post-2667063" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/post-your-lincolns.192928/page-223#post-2667063">1959 at the left </a>and 2008 on the right. (The hyperlinks refer back to my original posts of these years.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]613764[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>2008 Proof</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]613765[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]613766[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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