Error cent question

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• MarkKelley Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 4:26AM

  I don't know the answer to your question but here's a fun fact: Your coin is a 1973.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 4:30AM

  No idea on the edge roughness... However, @MarkKelley... How do you determine the date on that cent?? Cheers, RickO

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• JBK Posts: 16,723 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 4:36AM

  Are the FG initials a one-year type?

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• gonzer Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 4:52AM

  @JBK said:
  Are the FG initials a one-year type?

  They were. As such, this enabled me to identify a handful of undated Lincoln errors in 1973 resulting in many nice purchases.

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,973 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 5:01AM

  If you’re asking about the roughness on the blank portion of the off-center strike – that’s from counting or rolling machine damage

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• MarkKelley Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 6:03AM

  @ricko said:
  No idea on the edge roughness... However, @MarkKelley... How do you determine the date on that cent?? Cheers, RickO

  The FG initials were larger in 73 than any other year.

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• Fraz Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 6:16AM

  This is a perfect thread.

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• bsshog40 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 7:05AM

  Thank you @FredWeinberg for your explanation. And thank you @MarkKelley . I did not know about the FG for 73' coins. Good to know. Thanks all for your responses.

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• ironmanl63 Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 7:12AM

  @gonzer said:

  @JBK said:
  Are the FG initials a one-year type?

  They were. As such, this enabled me to identify a handful of undated Lincoln errors in 1973 resulting in many nice purchases.

  You learn something new everyday! Nice error coin. I like the look and color.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,089 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 8:04AM

  I got a 1973 cent in change on Jan. 6, 1973 and noticed the change in the initials. I sent it to Coin World, figuring it might be worth a paragraph or two in CLearinghouse, and it must have been a slow news week because of the holidays and they splashed it all over the front page. Perhaps the publicity embarrassed the Mint, because they reduced them somewhat in 1974.

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• bsshog40 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2023 8:41AM edited January 29, 2023 9:51AM

  @MarkKelley So I'm not so sure mine is a 73'. My FG looks to sit a little lower like the normal ones.
  
  
  

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