Frosty copper.

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  Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

  January 22, 2017 7:46PM

  Very nice Lincoln.

  Might I suggest cropping these images before posting. They take a while to load in their current size.

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  SeattleSlammer Posts: 10,129 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 22, 2017 7:55PM

  this is called a "moon shot" lol

  looks like it could be a cool piece...I love frosty copper

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  ricko Posts: 98,721 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 23, 2017 4:39AM

  Nice cent... Joined the Navy that year.... Cheers, RickO

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  BillJones Posts: 36,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 23, 2017 9:42AM

  The 1959 cent was coin that made me first a minor hoarder and then a collector. I read about the new Lincoln Memorial Cent in "The Weekly Reader" in school. I started saving every one I found in the late spring of 1959. That Christmas my uncle gave me the 13th edition of "The Red Book" and the two Whitman Lincoln Cent folders, and everything started from there.

  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 ... ?

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