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1943 Lincoln Wheat Bronze Graded PCGS MS63RD

BroweBrowe Posts: 236 ✭✭✭
edited January 19, 2018 8:34AM in U.S. Coin Forum

Not sure if this has been posted, but I ran across this article this morning regarding a sole red 1943 bronze wheat that sold recently.

coinnews.net/2018/01/19/pcgs-graded-1943-bronze-lincoln-cent-sold-for-1-million/

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  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Anyone know the history of this coin.

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd also like to know, Rick. The article said "Private Sale".

    What I like about the coin is how you can see tiny flecks of Zinc on the surface.

    Pete

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  • WildIdeaWildIdea Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What a coin!

    Looks like the striking pressures were set differently for steel cents.

  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,635 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very unattractive coin in my opinion.
    Of course, rare as hen's teeth too! Can't stand carbon spots on Lincoln cents

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,614 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would rather have a Brown version than this...one.

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  • KellenCoinKellenCoin Posts: 1,237 ✭✭✭✭

    It is always interesting when coins like this sell.

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  • mvs7mvs7 Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's an awesome coin. I don't mind the carbon flecks here... gives the coin a nice, original look.

  • drei3reedrei3ree Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭✭

    Not a coin I'd want to hold, but would certainly buy it to flip. ;)

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I prefer THIS one:

    Pete

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OOOPS....the pic didn't attach. It was a 1944 Steel Cent.

    Pete

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

    that is a nice find.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I love the fact that it's still red. :)

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  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,635 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like black mold growing all over it! And why so softly struck when the press should have been set for striking a steel planchet?
    Maybe grease filled die?

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  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When zinc coated steel cents were in production, zinc dust was pervasive. Some can even be found in silver coinage.

  • specialistspecialist Posts: 956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Images will make the spots look worse then they are. i'd be the coin look far better in hand

  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,764 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @tradedollarnut said:
    I personally love it

    Did we just find the buyer? ;)

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  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's also on the front page at PCGS.COM.

  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @drei3ree said:
    Not a coin I'd want to hold, but would certainly buy it to flip. ;)

    Why would you not want to hold it, outside of being short 999 thousand of the price? :)

  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ChrisH821 said:

    @tradedollarnut said:
    I personally love it

    Did we just find the buyer? ;)

    I’m not really buying much at the moment. So nope

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  • Latari_NumisLatari_Numis Posts: 24 ✭

    @DCW said:
    Very unattractive coin in my opinion.
    Of course, rare as hen's teeth too! Can't stand carbon spots on Lincoln cents

    I totally agree.... extremely ugly with rarity being the only thing going for it! If ugliness was the deciding factor for the hammer this coin would have went for around $650K ... IMHO!

    Latari

  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is this the one someone found in a Coinstar machine?

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  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭

    Needed a 'sneeze' guard.

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,944 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If that had been mine it would have been RB or environmentally damaged.

    bob ;)

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  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,353 ✭✭✭✭✭

    IMO, 63 red was a gift to the submitter. No way you get that grade on another date with identical problems. 61 or 62 would have been more appropriate.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The find of a lifetime.... one can only dream....and I do that frequently... :D:D Cheers, RickO

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