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Did someone get a deal on this Lincoln error?
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A while back I watched an ebay auction end at a little over $200 for a raw, late year (2006, I believe) Lincoln cent that was struck about 15-20% off-center. I questioned the price and some here mentioned it was because these types of errors are rarely seen in the more recent years. So, I came across this 2006 Lincoln struck a bit off center that ended under $7. So what's your opinion, was this a steal or is it too little off-center to command the crazy money?
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Ryan
At under $7.00 it's a deal as it's less then a crappy meal at a fast food restaurant... the cent will stay with you a lot longer too!
<< <i>Not a deal to me. I have several way off center Lincolns that I bought for around $5.00. >>
What years are yours? Do you have any that are recent years? I, too, was under the impression that the off-center Lincolns were a dime a dozen but I have been told that the more recent years are much harder to come by and in turn much more expensive.
Haven't seen any of them offered other than that auction. Maybe the reason is that you can't get bags of modern cents (only boxes of rolls) and these barely fit in a cent roll so they find them at the places that roll them.
I found some of them while searching 2006 boxes. On some of them it stretched the plating and others it tears it so the zinc shows. I could see them in the rolls before opening the rols because the narrow edge was cutting through the rolls that had them.
Look's similar to the one's you were looking at on ebay. Here's a few pics: