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What do you guys think of this 1944-D Lincoln Cent?

RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
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Found at an estate sale:

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Should I fly in to the next Long Beach show and have PCGS grade it?

Russ, NCNE
eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC

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  • ss350camaross350camaro Posts: 4,529
    most definately. ask them to ignore the areas around the date. that's just normal circulation wear.

    make sure you take a magnet with you too
  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    Ozzysdad's holy grail
    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."

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  • F117ASRF117ASR Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭
    Zinc coating. Give ya a penny for it.
    Beware of the flying monkeys!
    Aerospace Structures Engineer
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,837 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Better coins though platting and chemistry."

    I don’t think that this would pass the “magnet test.” The magnet and this coin would have no attraction for one another. image
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • nepbrs44nepbrs44 Posts: 600 ✭✭
    NTC Holder - PR67
    Bill.

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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Looks like a modified 14D, it's a fake.
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  • SmallSizedGuySmallSizedGuy Posts: 503 ✭✭✭
    It could be a Mercury covered bronze cent. If a bronze cent is dipped in Mercury, it will turn that color.
    Jim Hodgson



    Collector of US Small Size currency, Atlanta FRNs, and Georgia nationals since 1977. Researcher of small size US type - seeking serial number data for all FRN star notes, Series 1928 to 1934-D. Life member SPMC.



  • ss350camaross350camaro Posts: 4,529
    it's probably as 'real' as the copper '43 in my sig line image


  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You'd better send it it- I think it has accented hair.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>it's probably as 'real' as the copper '43 in my sig line >>



    I have one of those too:

    image

    Maybe I should get them both graded at the same time.

    Russ, NCNE
    eBay consignment sales | | Collectibles from Resco CCC
  • ss350camaross350camaro Posts: 4,529


    << <i>

    << <i>it's probably as 'real' as the copper '43 in my sig line >>



    I have one of those too:

    image

    Maybe I should get them both graded at the same time.

    Russ, NCNE >>



    Mine's prettier ! imageimage



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