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  • MACK

    #1

    Just Arrived

    Hello
    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
  • mustbebob
    Lincoln Cent Variety Expert
    • Jul 2008
    • 12758

    #2
    Hi Mack,
    First off, welcome to the Forum. We are glad you're here!
    As far as your statement concerning varieties in the same bag, that is a relatively true statement. Normally, the presses emptied into a large bin, and the bags were filled from that bin. If a doubled die were struck, then there would normally be many of that variety packed into a single bag. However, the tote bins were very large, and they received coins from many presses. The sheer number of bags filled with coins from that bin enabled the varieties to be pretty well split up. No one really knows where those bags may have ended up, so it is possible to have a pretty good distribution in the federal reserve system. However, varieties found in a specific area of the country can still be the norm. Now days, the coins are placed in huge containers weighing many thousands of ponds and distributed that way. The mint no longer bags them like they did in the good old days.
    You mentioned your eyes being like most of ours is. I use a microscope, and if you are seeing doubled dies all the time now, you might want to consider that if a loupe is no longer useful to you.
    Anyway, welcome again!
    Bob Piazza
    Former Lincoln Cent Attributer Coppercoins.com

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    • RWBILLER
      Member
      • Jul 2008
      • 6870

      #3
      Mack:
      There are some good web sites like LCR, Coneca and some good books like the "Cherry Picker's Guide" and books by Ken Potter and David Lange etc.
      Oh, I forgot, Welcome to LCR!
      Thanks
      Roger
      Roger
      ""Time and Tide wait for no man"

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      • jupiterkm1
        Paid Member

        • Jan 2009
        • 599

        #4
        Welcome Mack! Similar history to yours, been collecting along time, but only recently gotten interested in the varieties. And what an education and fun time it's been since! Learned ALOT in the past 5 months right here. You are in the right place! Kevin

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        • Wheat Cents
          Member
          • Jan 2008
          • 1234

          #5
          Welcome the the forum..
          Lincoln Cent Variety Enthusiast

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          • OCD
            Member
            • Apr 2008
            • 1309

            #6
            Welcome to the forum.
            Obsessive ¢ent Disorder
            Jeremy

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            • nightowl

              #7
              Welcome to the forum. Joe

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              • JeanK
                Member
                • Sep 2008
                • 5696

                #8
                Glad to have you with us Mack! We dearly love pictures of coins.. hint hint.
                Jean

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                • jcuve
                  Moderator, Die & Variety Expert
                  • Apr 2008
                  • 15458

                  #9
                  Welcome to the forum!



                  Jason Cuvelier


                  MadDieClashes.com - ErrorVariety.com
                  TrailDies.com - Error-ref.com - Port.Cuvelier.org
                  CONECA

                  (images © Jason Cuvelier 2008-18)___________________

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                  • 1sgret

                    #10
                    Welcome to the Forum.

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                    • koinmon
                      Member
                      • Oct 2008
                      • 2207

                      #11
                      Welcome MACK Great place to learn.

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