by Jason Cuvelier While searching bank rolls, one can find three common types of altered unplated Lincoln’s. The first two types having the plating removed: a Lincoln soaked in a corrosive; a Lincoln subjected to some type of reverse electrolysis; the last is when a Lincoln has been plated on top of the original copper […]
In The News … Photo © Ken Potter 2009 / Coin Courtesy of Thomas Baalman Photo © Ken Potter 2009 / Coin Courtesy of John Frye September 18, 2009—In Ken Potter’s recent article in Numismatic News, he says: “After a major lapse in time, I am again getting reports on major die crack varieties found […]
In The News… Image courtesy of Dennis Renner December 16, 2004—Dennis Renner of Il reports finding the fifth known example of the 2003-S proof Lincoln cent with a die crack on reverse. The variety was originally expounded upon in our front page article in the October 12, 2004 issue of Numismatic News. Pat Bowers of […]
by Ken Potter – NLG Image © Ken Potter 2011 / Coin Courtesy of Billy Crawford Just when you’d think that everything that was major for a coin over 20 years old could have been found, up pops a beautiful 1988 Doubled Die Obverse cent that vies that of the famous 1984 cent. The doubling […]
By Pete Apple The correct degree of hardness is a critical factor in the minting of coins. If an unstruck planchet is too hard the image pressed on the coin will not be clear. If it’s too soft, the coin will wear too quickly. The U S Mint uses a Rockwell Hardness Test on all […]
by Ken Potter – NLG This 1915-D/D/D 1c listed by CONECA as RPM-001 and by Cherrypickers’ Guide as new FS-501. It shows a clearly tripled Mintmark Tilted Clockwise & South. In addition to other obvious doubling, it shows a nice triple serif as pointed out by the arrows. Images © Ken Potter 2010 Another shot from angle […]
Photo courtesy of Kenneth A. Watson Q: Hello, as I said, I am new to the error/variety aspect of the hobby and have started with circulated Wheat cents. I find this to be quite interesting. I know you must get this all the time and I hope you don’t mind my inquiry about the attached […]
The images above were taken of the coin with side lighting which creates many harsh shadows but brings out some details lost with the brighter scanner shots below. Notice the ghosting of the Lincoln cent bust showing through on the obverse which helps us orientate the obv/rev die alignment. Images Courtesy Of Ken […]
SARASOTA, FLA. (February 13, 2017) — Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) has certified the only known example of a 1982-D Small Date cent struck in bronze. The unique coin was discovered in November by an anonymous collector in Minnesota after he decided to examine a hoard of bronze cents that he had accumulated from circulation. In […]
by Ken Potter & John Wexler Image courtesy of John Wexler December 20, 2015—First reported to John Wexler, news of a strong 2015 Lincoln cent doubled die obverse variety quickly spread to at least one of the error-variety coin related Facebook pages, but it is still little known to most others and just missed getting […]
