Has anybody ever seen a worn Lincoln Memorial cent?

clw54

Do these things even circulate long enough to reach VG or lower?

KlectorKid

they end up in a change jar because no 1 uses them... i have not seen anything lower than F

airplanenut

I have seen FR wheaties... I'm sure Braddick has "made" a PO-01 (PQ, of course!) Memorial cent...

Dog97

littlewicher

That's an awesome Braddick coin, Dog!

airplanenut

It's not a Braddick coin... it's MS...

It's gotta be a capped or filled die/strike through... too red to be worn at any level.

Jeremy

littlewicher

I see vertical marks on the coin, it was probably worn down with a belt sander.

presleyh

Back in the dusky 50s, (i guess a penny was worth enough to circulate back then) it wasn't unusual to see penneys worn down to unreadable conditions. We used to sell coke bottles for 3 cents and buy cookies 2 for a penny from a big jar on the counter at the little store on the corner. Pennies were actually legal tender back then.

stujoe

It looks like it has had a pencil eraser used on it. Please tell me you didn't spend weeks erasing that cent down to that.

KlectorKid

struck through cloth thats why u see the lines.... am i right?

braddick

I found, what I thought was a GD04, maybe VG08 1970-S (Large Date) Memorial about a year or so ago.
It was in a Dansco at the Carlsbad coin shop. I think I paid like .15 cents for it.
I did pay another $8. and had it graded via PCI.
They returned my beautiful GD04 coin back as a VF20 "Weak Strike".
What?!
-I ended up selling it on eBay for something like $2.
I'd have much rather had a GD04 than a "weak strike".

commoncents

A belt sander would've left alot of zink exposed. Looks like a struck through greese to me or a die trial strike. But I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't been watching these threads for about a year before I figured out how to post here.

Dog97

Airplanenut & Klectorkid busted me!! I trolled the thread with a Mint State struck thru cloth penny. The lines are textile patterns imprinted on the coin.
On a serious note you won't see post 82s WORN that much because the inner zinc core will be exposed and the coin will be culled from circulaton as unservicable. I have never seen a Lincoln Memorial in VG or lower but they gotta be out there.

BlueCole

I'll be sending Braddick a wheatie that's P1-F2 here in the next day or two--i hope he has it graded so we can find out!!!!

B.

richbeat

They are indeed out there. There's not a lot, but I've seen a few.

cladking

Back in the early 70's it was not unusual to see an old memorial cent worn
down to F or VF, or even VG on rare occasion. The cent has an extremely high
attrition rate because many people throw them away and very few will expend
much effort to retrieve an errant one. Each time one of these changes hands
there is a high probability that it will be the last time. Obviously this is not con-
dusive to any specimens recieving a lot of wear. These coins also have a high
probability of going into very long term storage. They can get into a jar of cents
that's used for poker ante or a piggy bank and sit for many many years. Since
the attrition rate on these coins is far higher today than it was 30 years ago, it
is generally a safe assumption that a well worn memorial today actually got most
of it's wear in the 60's and 70's. A later date with extensive wear in most unlikely.