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<p>[QUOTE="Spark1951, post: 3629559, member: 90692"]Not a fan. Currently, I am culling out weak strikes, die deterioration and excess contact mark shields from my collection, for every Zincoln year. As others have noted, the sheild design is fairly pedestrian, wish they could have come up with something better...but, then, why? A great design on crappy material still equals crap. I think we will see another decade of them before they change it again.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have learned a ton from CT since joining, and my attitudes toward different denominations have changed along with the education. Along with zinc cents, clad coinage is on the block too...Spark[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Spark1951, post: 3629559, member: 90692"]Not a fan. Currently, I am culling out weak strikes, die deterioration and excess contact mark shields from my collection, for every Zincoln year. As others have noted, the sheild design is fairly pedestrian, wish they could have come up with something better...but, then, why? A great design on crappy material still equals crap. I think we will see another decade of them before they change it again. I have learned a ton from CT since joining, and my attitudes toward different denominations have changed along with the education. Along with zinc cents, clad coinage is on the block too...Spark[/QUOTE]
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