Interesting Cherrypick Story from the Coin Show in Idaho
kalshacon
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The show promoter In Coeur d'Alene showed me an interesting Lincoln Cent over the weekend and relayed the following information about it.
Seems that last year he purchased a roll of circulated 1943 steel cents from a local shop to plug into albums he was building and then selling. He was making his way through the roll when he arrived at a particular cent and tried to insert it into the album, it just kept falling out of the hole. He started to look at the cent more closely and sure enough the diameter was smaller than the other cents. His curiosity was up so he then weighed the cent and noticed it had the same weight as a Mercury Dime. He started to get pretty excited and had another local shop test the composition against that of a Merc. It matched the Mercury.
He subsequently submitted the coin to PCGS and when it came back he ended up with a 1943-S AU50 Lincoln Cent struck on a Silver Dime Planchet. Very cool coin and a neat story, great finds are still out there! (Sorry, I didn't have a camera, so no pics.)
Seems that last year he purchased a roll of circulated 1943 steel cents from a local shop to plug into albums he was building and then selling. He was making his way through the roll when he arrived at a particular cent and tried to insert it into the album, it just kept falling out of the hole. He started to look at the cent more closely and sure enough the diameter was smaller than the other cents. His curiosity was up so he then weighed the cent and noticed it had the same weight as a Mercury Dime. He started to get pretty excited and had another local shop test the composition against that of a Merc. It matched the Mercury.
He subsequently submitted the coin to PCGS and when it came back he ended up with a 1943-S AU50 Lincoln Cent struck on a Silver Dime Planchet. Very cool coin and a neat story, great finds are still out there! (Sorry, I didn't have a camera, so no pics.)
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wow, cool find. and got for way cheap probably!
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