Which year cents had this obverse

Hair?

 

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that's the year Abe went surfing and got his hair wet.

 

At least Abe didn't go surfing off Maui and get his arm bit off by a shark.

 

Kona coast has the BEST coffee. Hands down. Been there done that. Wish I could get them to send it 100%.. .

But serious now on the coin. I have a mit full of them. Where is the link to the resource about the complete obverses?

 

bad hair cut

 

Here is the link to the obverse design changes, but they don't show anything about the hair at the back of the head.

http://varietyvista.com/Lincoln Cent ODV Changes.htm

 

exactly jay. "they don't show anything about the hair at the back of the head." we need a resource

 

ok i'm serious now , the reason Abe's hair looks like this on your coin is because the die was polished and too much of the details of Lincoln's neck area was removed. this one may have also had a small well placed die chip in this area to go along with the polishing of the die. it would be possible to find coins like this from many different years.

 

What year is the cent in your orginal post?
Have you looked at any other cents from this same year for the wild hair?

To answer your question

Probably the only year this obverse was used is the year your coin is dated and probably used to strike no more than 1 million coins before this obverse design was retired.

 

A good resource for you aword would be "The Complete Guide to Lincoln Cents" by David Lange.

 

Is that on line somewhere? Do you see this hairdo in there somewhere?