The 1959 Lincoln cent

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  1. Inspector43

    Inspector43 Celebrating 75 Years Active Collecting Supporter

    Lincoln was born in 1809. The Lincoln cent was issued in 1909. 1959 is the 150th birthday of Lincoln. Part of coin collecting is our access to and understanding of history.
     
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  3. yakpoo

    yakpoo Member

    Just the other day I was throwing out some empty boxes and nearly discarded a 2009 Lincoln Coins & Chronicles set.
     
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  4. Inspector43

    Inspector43 Celebrating 75 Years Active Collecting Supporter

    Don't do that. Good catch.
     
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  5. Chris Winkler

    Chris Winkler Well-Known Member

    So true!!! Now the new coins are ugly and worthless plated tokens, except the silver/gold ones. Is there any reason to collect, yet grade plated slugs? What say you? I know i am asking for trouble as Leonard Quick Sr says, though i don't care!
     
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  6. yakpoo

    yakpoo Member

    "Ugly Buildings, Politicians, and Whores all gain respectability with age." I guess we can add "clad coinage" to the list.
     
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  7. whopper64

    whopper64 Well-Known Member

    1959 represented the 150th year of Lincoln's birth. Coin was originated in 1909, 100 years after Lincoln was born. 2009, another change on reverse, represented 200th year anniversary of Lincoln's birth. If you haven't figured it out yet, every 50 years, US Mint has major reverse change for zincolns. Hopefully, if the US Mint decides to stop producing zincolns for circulation, they will continue minting for collectors, both biz and proof strikes. Canada missed the opportunity to make some money rather than losing it on regular cent strikes. Since the U.S. has quite a few more collectors and the zincoln is one of the longest running coins (plus apparently holds the record for sheer numbers), it would make sense to continue minting the zincoln for collectors. Unfortunately, the US Mint has not shown consistent intelligence in producing/introducing new/present coins. Anyone collecting the absurd innovations coins?
     
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  8. Mr.Q

    Mr.Q Well-Known Member

    Change in 1959 no problem, the real problem came with the 1982 Zincoln. Just my opinion. Thanks for your post.
     
  9. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    The 59 with the wheat reverse is not a mint produced error coin. Yes it has sold for a lot of money more than once. And, it has even been verified (by non coin experts from the US government) as not being fake. But no TPG will certify it, because they know it was created outside the mint. Several good stories on the net about this coin. Had a wheat reverse die accidentally been used, thousands of coins would have been produced before it was pulled. And even if those coins had been produced and destroyed, there has to be a paper trail accounting of that happening and there is none.
    You could check old threads here.
    No, there aren't any real ones.
     
  10. Mac McDonald

    Mac McDonald Well-Known Member

    Will consider all this "talk" serious, although not sure. Anyway, without knowing any of "the story" behind it, will take a stab and say that the 1959 Lincoln cent was changed that year to show the "Memorial" reverse because it was the 100th anniv...1909..of the obverse...which in turn was the 100th anniv of Lincoln's birth (1809). Makes cents to me...more than waiting another year which really wouldn't have commemorated much of anything Lincoln...save for maybe the 100th anniv of Lincoln's first election to the presidency (1860). Hope this helps.
     
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  11. whopper64

    whopper64 Well-Known Member

    You must have missed my previous post.
     
  12. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    150th birth anniversary.
     
  13. Razz

    Razz Critical Thinker

    And for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of his birth in 2009, the mint produced 4 different reverses depicting different times in his life. Polish_20210126_183934376.jpg
     
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  14. Cheech9712

    Cheech9712 Every thing is a guess

    Thinking outside the box. Great question
     
  15. Cheech9712

    Cheech9712 Every thing is a guess

    Yea. Wish they would fix that zinc issue
     
  16. Cheech9712

    Cheech9712 Every thing is a guess

    Great input. Another outside the box idea. You members have great ideas
     
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