Click here to search for Lincoln pennies on Amazon. MS 65 gem uncirculated- There is strong luster and eye appeal. A few light contact marks may be present but they are barely noticeable. The Red Book. Zinc Pennies zinc pennies are composed of Numismatists who think there is little to get excited about collecting Lincoln cents should think twice, because according to Daughtrey there are plenty of interesting die varieties some quite valuable among pennies.
The most valuable known die variety, the reverse doubled die zinc small-date cent, was discovered in He also suggests that coin collectors should examine all of their cents closely, because while he says there are perhaps 19 or 20 known die varieties for the year, many more likely exist. He comments that astute coin collectors will pick out the coins that may not have yet been attributed, and that they need to be on the lookout for minor variations in all parts of the design.
The Lincoln cent aficionado also says that while it can be a lot of fun looking for the different die varieties, collectors should remember that not all are worth a bundle. In addition to die varieties, Daughtrey says some ordinary specimens of the seven main pennies are worth much more than face value alone.
While the dearth of uncirculated sets and bag collectors have largely made and dated Jefferson nickels, Roosevelt dimes, and Washington quarters quite scarce in the uncirculated grades, he says the situation has always been different for the pennies. So, there was a small bag hoarding craze for the cents. A Minnesota collector who wishes to remain anonymous discovered it while sorting through cents by weight to save the copper-alloy pieces for their melt value.
In effect, what used to be a seven-coin set of varieties for the cents has just grown to an eight-coin set. Where there is one, there are usually more so I expect additional reports to come in though I expect the coin to continue to be rare. The varieties involve the so-called Large Date and Small Date die modification and the two different types of planchets used that year, solid copper-alloy and copper-plated zinc. Between the two planchet types and two styles of dies used, eight different combinations were possible between the Philadelphia and Denver mints involved for business strike production.
The Mint switched over from striking copper-alloy to copper-plated zinc planchets sometime in mid as a cost saving measure — the copper-alloy planchets were too expensive to strike and the Mint was losing money. The Mint had trouble striking the new planchets with dies bearing the old die design, used for a number of years with only the date changing , so they modified the dies to make them more suitable to strike the copper-plated zinc cents.
There were Small and Large Date varieties struck on both types of planchets with only the Denver minted Small Date copper cent seemingly never having been minted. I bought some craft sticks and round toothpicks at the Dollar Store and proceeded to make my own. It worked great. It was fast and accurate. I began weighing every I found. On Nov. He said it was in the last handful of coins in the bag, saying that he had taken a break from coin sorting in recent weeks and if not for a snowstorm and nothing better to do he never would have bought that bag.
He buys his cents from banks before they are shipped out for counting, rolling and being boxed. The hard-core copper hoarders use sorting machines to separate copper from zinc so any of this rarity in those hoards are lost at least for now and may very well be melted in time.
The reason the Mint changed from what collectors call a Large Date to the Small Date is because zinc does not strike up like copper or a predominantly copper alloy. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Warning Only use the drop test on circulating pennies where you are sorting copper and zinc for the bullion value only. Featured Video. Related Topics. Coin Collecting. Read More. Your Privacy Rights. To change or withdraw your consent choices for TheSpruceCrafts.
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