Can someone tell me whats up with this Lincoln ?

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  FredWeinberg Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2012 5:38AM

  Plated as a novelty item;
  not an error of any type.
  
  

  Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.

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  johnny9434 Posts: 33,980 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2012 5:43AM

  
  
  << <i>Plated as a novelty item;
  not an error of any type. >>
  
  

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  garrynot Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭

  January 30, 2012 6:24AM

  My dad used to plate cents just to pass the time. Thank goodness he never did it to anything valuable.

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  Mercfan Posts: 701 ✭✭

  January 30, 2012 9:59AM

  Based on my experience having looked at close to a couple million wheaties, I'd venture a guess that 1953 is the most common date for zinc-plated pre-1959 Lincolns.
  
  My hypothesis is that some widely used high school chemistry textbook or curriculum came out that year and included a lab exercise involving electroplating a U.S. cent. The selection of 1953 may have been in response to the lab instruction that it be a "new" or "clean and shiny" cent--making those most recently released into circulation overwhelmingly the most frequently used.
  
  I was only one in 1953, so I hadn't yet enrolled in high school chemistry. Anybody who took chemistry in about 1953 remember such a lab exercise?
  
  Or, have any of you who've looked at a lot of wheaties seen a different date commonly "silver" plated?
  
  

  "Coin collecting problem"? What "coin collecting problem"?

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