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I've been collecting Lincoln Cents since I was a kid, and now it adds up to about 52 years.
Started by buying rolls at the local bank in the mid 50's, trying to fill vol. 1 & 2 blue Whitman albums. By 1959 I had everything but a the key dates. First penny I ever bought from a dealer was a 1922D in 1960, paid about $2.50 for it and picked up the green Whitman book. By 1962 I had a paper route and would buy $50 bags to go through, in a couple of years I had both books full except the 1909s/1909sVDB/and one 1914D.
Bought a 1909s in about 1965 for about $8.00 then just started getting too busy with life to keep it up until the early 1980's.
From pennies, I moved into other coins, but always wanted to finish that one book with a 1909s VDB.
In 1996 a finally broke down and bought an uncertified AU 1909s VDB for $495, more than a complete Washington quarter album I picked up the same year.
So I have one complete lincoln green Whitman and 40 or fifty almost complete other blue books, and of course probably 20K or so loose wheats.
Now, I'm curious about varieties, but I need a good way to see the small letters and dates. Any cent I look at now turns into a doubled die right before my eyes, if you know what I mean.
Before I get into these things I have a few questions.
I have read how the dies rotate, clash, or pick up other abnormalties, but when these things are made wouldn't the majority of them be in a single batch, and possibly in a single bag?
Wouldn't a DDO, like the 1969s, that has only a few examples, only be found in a few bags produced at the same time?
What are the chances they would not be in the same batch?
MACK
I've been collecting Lincoln Cents since I was a kid, and now it adds up to about 52 years.
Started by buying rolls at the local bank in the mid 50's, trying to fill vol. 1 & 2 blue Whitman albums. By 1959 I had everything but a the key dates. First penny I ever bought from a dealer was a 1922D in 1960, paid about $2.50 for it and picked up the green Whitman book. By 1962 I had a paper route and would buy $50 bags to go through, in a couple of years I had both books full except the 1909s/1909sVDB/and one 1914D.
Bought a 1909s in about 1965 for about $8.00 then just started getting too busy with life to keep it up until the early 1980's.
From pennies, I moved into other coins, but always wanted to finish that one book with a 1909s VDB.
In 1996 a finally broke down and bought an uncertified AU 1909s VDB for $495, more than a complete Washington quarter album I picked up the same year.
So I have one complete lincoln green Whitman and 40 or fifty almost complete other blue books, and of course probably 20K or so loose wheats.
Now, I'm curious about varieties, but I need a good way to see the small letters and dates. Any cent I look at now turns into a doubled die right before my eyes, if you know what I mean.
Before I get into these things I have a few questions.
I have read how the dies rotate, clash, or pick up other abnormalties, but when these things are made wouldn't the majority of them be in a single batch, and possibly in a single bag?
Wouldn't a DDO, like the 1969s, that has only a few examples, only be found in a few bags produced at the same time?
What are the chances they would not be in the same batch?
MACK
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