Honest Abe born this date 203 years ago. Post your best Lincoln coin.

coindeuce

203 in 2012. I'd love to see the finest 1918 Illinois Centennial / Lincoln Commem.








Edited after math skills lesson.

ldhair

GMan

Well it isn't the finest, but it is my finest

GMan

I just sent this to our hosts for their opinion:

coindeuce

Thanks, GMan. Yours is Extra fine enough for me.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

Same with Charles Darwin...

and me! 20th birthday today!

coindeuce

Hey Will! Party hardy! Next year everything changes for you in N.Y.

ThePennyLady

These three are my favorite Lincoln cents from my personal collection....

WingedLiberty1957

PCGS Secure Plus PR66BN

AnkurJ

RYK

Very interesting article in the NYT today about a painting thought to be of Mary Todd Lincoln which was "doctored" to resemble her and sold to the family in the 1920's as an 1864 original. It's a little more complicated, but that is the gist.

DAM

Happy Bday Abe.

Here's one of them...

Bochiman

<< <i>Same with Charles Darwin...

and me! 20th birthday today! >>



Congrats!
My son turns 10 today as well, so you are double his age

CaptHenway

Um, 2012 - 1809 = 203.

TheBigB

<< <i>212 in 2012. I'd love to see the finest 1918 Illinois Centennial / Lincoln Commem. >>



Abe was born in 1809.

coindeuce

<< <i>Um, 2012 - 1809 = 203. >>



My math skills are "stupendous" Thanks Cap'n!

78saen

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johnny9434

<< <i>Well it isn't the finest, but it is my finest

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nice coin gman. its all good and i like

ambro51

well not quite a coin but if it werent for this there may NOT have been a coin!

PeaceBD

illini420

Here's a few of my best:

67RB


67RB


66RB

lkeigwin

I never thought about which was "best". I suppose one of these two is most valuable, 65RD and 64RD. Then there are those with the best color, strike, eye appeal, etc. Hard to decide.
Lance.

BG

66RB

OnlyGoldIsMoney

My best and only Lincoln.

robec

Probably not my best, but one of my favorites.

Swampboy

I don't have an image of my best so I'm posting a favorite.

HoledandCreative

lordmarcovan

When I was a kid in school, I started collecting in 1976 and got this coin that December for my 11th birthday.




What does it have to do with Lincoln, you ask? Well, I remember reading this book at the time, which I'd gotten from the school library (I guess it must've been a biography of Lincoln), and I remember one page had a sidebar illustration that showed a picture of an 1827 half dollar. (I remember the picture credit being from the Smithsonian, too, though who knows).

Anyway, this little sidebar illustration mentioned how Honest Abe, who would've been age 18 in the summer of 1827, had ferried a couple of gentlemen out to a steamboat anchored in the middle of a river. (Must've been a pretty early steamboat, I guess? Hmm.)

Each of the men threw a half dollar into the bottom of Abe's skiff or canoe or whatever it was, and that was how he earned his first dollar.

Who knows if A) the story is true, the book got it right, or C) I remember correctly what the book said, but it stuck in my head that Abe had supposedly earned his first dollar in 1827 and the odds were about one in 5.5 million that I had one of those actual coins which made up half the historical payment. This is assuming both coins had been newly minted 1827 Bust halves, that Abe saved them instead of spent them (yeah, right) and that the Smithsonian ended up with one of them, all of which is yeah, a real stretch.

But be they true or contrived, little "mind movies" like that are what make some of my favorite coins my favorites.

PS- hey, check it out! Thanks, Google. The story, at least, checks out.

BillJones

My best Lincoln pieces are medals and medalets from his 1860 and 1864 presidential campaigns. I have a fairly large number of pieces in my collection. Here are some of my favorites.

Lincoln, the Rail Splitter, from his 1860 campaign.




Lincoln's 1860 campaign called for the restriction of slavery to the states where it already existed. This 1860 medalet presents that position. The dies were made by Worcester, Massachusetts die sinker, Charles Lang.



This 1864 piece features Lincoln's nick name, "Honest Old Abe," which he acquired when he was living in Illinois. The reverse slogan, “Freedom to all men,” was non-confrontational way to call for the end of slavery. The hole is okay for pieces like this because it indicates that the medalet may have been worn during the election campaign.




This is the Lincoln - Union League medalet. The Union League was organized during the Civil War to promote the election of pro-Union candidates. Originally it supported candidates from both parties but subsequently because a staunchly Republican organization.




And here is the face of the die that was used to strike the medalet I displayed above. This is only one of five original Civil War tokens dies that are know to our hobby. William Key, a well-known Philadelphia, Pennsylvania die sinker, made this tool. Key later landed a job at the Philadelphia mint.

coindeuce

Thanks BillJones! You may be a day late, but you're never short on value to the forum.