Where are all the 24-D cents at?

ahooka454

I have been watching what is availible at auction and for sale in general. There are no really nice 1924-d's anywhere. I see some beat up circ. pieces but not alot worth looking at. What gives?

ziggy29

Sorry, not for sale, but here's one:

cohodk

I have a roll of them, all VF or better. How many you want?

tjkillian

I have one in about VF/XF. I bought it recently, i.e. in the past 15 years.

Cheddy

Whats with this one on the bay?:

ahooka454

I really would like a really nice lightly circulated example. Graded is good but not required. I just cant seem to find a good one. cohodk a roll? We should talk...

GoldenEyeNumismatics

A had a couple of nice AU's a few months ago. They're not impossible, but it's a date that requires some looking. Keep on searching!

TexasNationals

I have a MS-65 RD PCGS available at the right price, you may not like the price but it is right as far as I am concerned.

Tyler1924S

The only pic I have of one of mine was taken because it has PVC contamination (asked about in another thread). This is how the coin was struck. Obverse has very weak strike. No rub under microscope. I have it labled AU58.

TexasNationals

Tyler1924S is that PVC or regular copper corrosion, also did you try to treat it. If PVC with acetone or copper corrosion with olive oil?

Just curious.

ahooka454

hey tex, what ballbark we talking? may look nice to my other 65 reds.

Tyler1924S

<< <i>Tyler1924S is that PVC or regular copper corrosion, also did you try to treat it. If PVC with acetone or copper corrosion with olive oil?

Just curious. >>



Some thought it was verdigris. I have not tried anything yet. If I do anything, I was going to try olive oil first, then, maybe acetone. This one does not seem to have changed in 4 years (since I rescued it from a flip), so I have not been in much of a hurry.

TexasNationals

I would go with olive oil, I really think that will clean it up after a long soak and short poke. I have an 1888/7 going right now and it is coming along nicely.

Smitty79

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Looks like they cast it in Silly Putty.

Goldbully

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Looks like they cast it in Silly Putty. >>



Is that a Patrick Star Penny????

Tyler1924S

<< <i>I would go with olive oil, I really think that will clean it up after a long soak and short poke. I have an 1888/7 going right now and it is coming along nicely. >>



Thanks alot for the advice! That is definately what I will try first. One thing that makes me go with PVC on this one, is the wet looking areas at the edges. Just above the WE, for example. The dark areas at the edges/rim are where you have the wet looking sticky kind of thing I'm used to seeing on these with PVC.

CaptHenway

The 1924-D cents, like the 1911-S cents, are where the 1931-S cents were a few years ago. Had a guy in the store today looking for one for his album, but he had it in him mind that he should only have to pay what his 2007 Redbook listed it at. They are a lot more today thanks to supply and demand.
TD

Bochiman

Not sure of the 24-D but I got a 1924-P in my change at 7-11 the other day...probably VF+ from the looks of it. I haven't looked that closely at it yet.

Bochiman

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How big of a list do you want?

ahooka454

i get the 31-s but i always think about the hoard that had 250k of red pieces. i would rather have a 24-d.

droopyd

I've got an AU that I've had for several years (not for sale until I upgrade) and an F that I've had a couple of decades (for sale when I get around to it).

ArizonaJack

The 24-D is a toughie, and not at all in line with price guides. I think it is now starting to get noticed again as all Lincoln collectors are scrambling to get/hold semi key dates while they are still undervalued. I am filling up my ebay store with semikey lincolns this weekend but am not selling them cheap. If I get stuck with them, oh well.

roadrunner

I remember receiving one of these in VF as a gift in 1964 (the peak of the Lincoln penny craze). Value $25. It took over 40 yrs to exceed that amount. For a properly graded coin, it was probably one of the worst % returns in the hobby over that 40 yrs. Now why couldn't I have a few gem red Indian cents for that $25 (lol).

roadrunner

Shortgapbob

Finding nice 1924-D Lincolns were one of my first successes as a young collector. I was able to find several XF coins that had been undergraded as VFs and purchased them on the cheap side of the price break. I don't see nice ones as often as I used to however, and I always sell them quickly anytime I have any at a show.

291fifth

Hoarded. Key and semi-key dates have been under pressure from hoarders for some time now.

ziggy29

<< <i>Finding nice 1924-D Lincolns were one of my first successes as a young collector. I was able to find several XF coins that had been undergraded as VFs and purchased them on the cheap side of the price break. I don't see nice ones as often as I used to however, and I always sell them quickly anytime I have any at a show. >>

I found mine (posted above) at a show about 15 years ago. Solid XF, and I think I paid something like $30 for it. It replaced a nice VG specimen my dad picked out of circulation in Puerto Rico in the early 1960s.

This is one of the toughest dates in nice VF and above, because it wasn't recognized and saved as a low-mintage date by many people for quite a few years. By the time its relative scarcity was realized, most had been in "the trenches" for a couple decades. This is also why the '14-D is so much tougher in high grades than the lower-mintage '09-S VDB or '31-S. You don't see many '31-S Lincolns *below* VF. 1924-D cents have long flown "under the radar" of the '09-S VDB, '09-S, '14-D and '31-S.

jdimmick

I havent had any recently, but had a couple of nice Xf and even 2 Au's float in last month, but they have long been sold

tahoe98

i'm currently holding a nice uncirculated example. when i learn to take pics i'll post it for potential flames!

AJ2525

I got a 24-D at a Denver show about two years ago. I didn't have the money for an AU or MS one but was very pleased with the XF+ one I did get for $75. It was far better than the other XF ones I saw. One, PCGS graded as MS-63 was splotchy and unattractive even if I did have the ?$240 the seller was asking. I was advised to step up to a MS example as they "would be moving up soon."

I'm not into Lincolns as much as I was in times past but like everyone says

"I wish I had bought the (semi) keys first."

But I couldn't afford the keys then either.

ahooka454

sounds like a nice xf. i may just look for a few nice 24-d's that are circulated aswell.

TomB

I believe that mid-grade circulated, early Lincoln cents still have plenty of room to stretch in terms of price before they are finished.

ahooka454

i agree. i found a vf20 1914-D a few weeks ago. what you guys think? the scratches are on the holder...

ArizonaJack

All no problem original 24-d's are nice