Photo courtesy of James Wiles
June 03, 2004—CONECA is continuing its effort to bring more variety information to the web site in the form of the Top 100 variety format!  The first publication delivered to me for uploading to the CONECA web site is a fully illustrated listing of the Top 100 Lincoln Cent RPMs. Its debut was at the ANA Convention last summer where its author, James Wiles, presented it as one of his slide show programs to the public. It highlights repunched mint marks ranging from the 1909-S/S RPM-001 to the 1989-D/D RPM-009. I’m pretty excited about this work as it at last offers folks that collect by CONECA numbers a template of sorts highlighting the best RPMs for those who don’t want to be bothered with the hundreds of minor varieties but like to think of their collection as “complete.” Now they can aim for a complete set of the TOP 100.
The CONECA Top 100
Lincoln Cent RPMs
Compiled by James Wiles
The information below is organized by
— It’s Date is on the first line
— The CONECA RPM# is on the second line
— If available, the Cross References* for it is on the third line
*Cross Reference numbers are to Fivaz/Stanton Cherrypickers’ Guide (FS#s) and other CONECA numbers for Doubled Dies, Cuds, etc
1909-S
RPM-001
FS-12.2
1909-S
RPM-002
FS-12.3
1910-S
RPM-001
1910-S
RPM-002
FS-12.7
1911-D
RPM-001
FS-12.8
1911-D
RPM-002
FS-12.81
1911-D
RPM-003
FS-12.82
1911-D
RPM-004
FS-12.83
1911-S
RPM-001
FS-12.85
1912-S
RPM-001
1918-D
RPM-001
1919-D
RPM-001
1919-S
RPM-001
1924-S
RPM-001
1925-S
RPM-001
FS-13.31
1925-S
RPM-003
1927-D
RPM-001
DDO-001, FS-13.51
1928-S
RPM-001
1929-S
RPM-001
FS-13.65
1930-D
RPM-002
FS-13.7
1930-S
RPM-001
FS-13.73
1931-D
RPM-001
1933-D
RPM-001
1934-D
RPM-003
FS-13.81
1934-D
RPM-004
FS-13.8
1936-D
RPM-002
1937-D
RPM-001
DDR-001
1938-D
RPM-001
FS-16.4
1938-D
RPM-002
DDR-001
1938-S
RPM-001
FS-16.51
1938-S
RPM-002
FS-16.5
1939-D
RPM-001
1940-S
RPM-001
DDO-001
1940-S
RPM-003
CUD-010
1940-S
RPM-004
1940-S
RPM-007
CUD-012
1941-D
RPM-007
DDO-004, DDR-003
1941-S
RPM-011
1942-D
RPM-002
FS-18.91
1942-D
RPM-004
FS-18.92
1942-S
RPM-001
DDO-001, FS-18.94
1942-S
RPM-012
DDR-002, FS-18.93
1943-D
RPM-001
FS-19
1943-D
RPM-004
1943-D
RPM-013
FS-19.1
1943-D
RPM-016
DDO-005
1943-S
RPM-005
1944-D
RPM-002
FS-21.1
1944-D
RPM-007
FS-21.11
1944-D
RPM-010
1944-S
RPM-005
DDO-003
1944-S
RPM-006
1945-D
RPM-010
1945-S
RPM-005
1945-S
RPM-006
1946-D
RPM-001
1946-S
RPM-003
DDR-004
1946-S
RPM-014
DDR-003
1946-S
RPM-025
1946-S
RPM-029
DDO-008
1947-D
RPM-002
1947-S
RPM-004
FS-21.31
1948-S
RPM-004
DDO-001
1949-D
RPM-001
FS-21.33
1949-S
RPM-001
1950-D
RPM-001
1950-D
RPM-007
1950-S
RPM-004
FS-21.34
1951-D
RPM-004
1952-D
RPM-005
1952-S
RPM-003
1953-D
RPM-001
FS-21.73
1953-D
RPM-028
1953-S
RPM-002
1954-D
RPM-001
FS-21.76
1954-S
RPM-003
1954-S
RPM-004
1955-D
RPM-002
1955-D
RPM-003
FS-21.94
1955-S
RPM-001
FS-21.97
1956-D
RPM-001
FS-22.1
1956-D
RPM-008
FS-22
1956-D
RPM-016
1956-D
RPM-018
1957-D
RPM-002
1957-D
RPM-003
1957-D
RPM-005
DDO-002
1958-D
RPM-005
1959-D
RPM-001
FS-22.5
1960-D
RPM-001
1960-D
RPM-100
DDO-001, FS-25.5
1961-D
RPM-001
1964-D
RPM-005
DDR-002
1968-D
RPM-001
FS-27.3
1970-S
RPM-001
1971-S
RPM-003
DDO-001, FS-32
1985-D
RPM-001
1987-D
RPM-003
1988-D
RPM-001
1989-D
RPM-009