a fun, somewhat old and fairly short read. teen finds rare coin, later on he....
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Yes, great story.
That looks like a small 'strike-through' on his specimen. That little area at the rim below the date.
How many of us searched for this coin when we were young (and even later when going through large accumulations of cents). Possibly the most famous of Lincoln cent errors...I still look at my change and in the cent trays at some stores. Cheers, RickO
Cool story. Did I miss something, though...PCGS MS62 in the article, NGC AU53 in the pic. It sounded like PCGS slabbed it first, but then it was crossed to be an AU with NGC? I feel like I got something wrong.
In this case I would trust the pic, not the article. It has the guy's name right on the holder! Plus the article is weirdly worded and doesn't sound like the writer know anything about coins to boot (The article also claims he found the coin in change he got, so unlikely it would still have graded MS).
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The price the article claims that the coin brought is not even remotely close to being accurate. We certainly would have been out on the bidding at well below the erroneously reported $2.4 million!
thx for posting, nice story.
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I remember these in the 70's......my goodness, I think I could have gotten one for 8 to 10 grand.....
The article reads almost as if generated by an artificial intelligence program naming a made-up author.
Here is a link to the Heritage auction lot where it sold as NGC AU-53 for $204,000 in Jan 2019:
https://coins.ha.com/itm/lincoln-cents/1943-cent-struck-on-a-bronze-planchet-au53-ngc/a/1291-4362.s
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