1978 Gold Colored Lincoln Memorial Cent Question

Yea Sue, I bet that most of the people here can pull the change from their pocket and give a good half hour talk on each coin pulled. I think you should feel free to ask any question you might have. I'd answer more questions but I'm still looking for answers myself. Enjoy the forum, I know I have.

dahoov, the 50 post rule is for uploading photo's to the gallery, not to post here. Read the uploading photos tutorial to your left of this page. You have read it carefully, and understand the 100kb size restrictions, you can use a editing software to scale downt he photos, and they automatically have a program to make them bigger when clicked on. You may use the software that is listed on the tutorial, or I use GIMP 2.2, it is easy to understand and I can scale my photos easily. http://www.gimp.org
I think they now have the new version 2.4

Thanks; I tried to email you via the site and more problems. It said I don't have enough posts to email anyone on the group. No worries. I tried to upload and it said "successful" but don't know where it went... I don't see it here. Don't need to download the software; use Photoshop and managed to do the 500 w pixels totaling 98-99k so no problem there. If someone wants to email me at home and upload, no problem. I will have 10 photos total though. 3 sets of foreign coins front and back (6 photos), front and back of some US coins that maybe worth keeping or looking at (2 photos) and that pesky penny... front and back (the scan and the digital camera cannot really capture the color though).

thanks; I can identify some countries (some do say UAE or Jordan) and obviously a few from England, but some can't be identified. I really like the looks of the dual colored one.... I will post the US coins though. That's just two photos and only 8 or 9 coins. Thanks so very much!

You are more than welcome. Some more comments for you, whether you like them or not.




Um, yes you are, you said it here yourself : "I am collecting just coins we get"

That's the first step to being an addict like us.......




Again, this is what coin collectors do!!




Yes and no. But give yourself time before you decide you don't want them. What are you going to do when the current Whitman albums are full?




Typically called Bi-metallic if I'm not mistaken.

You're right. I guess I am a collector. Since I am not educated in this realm, if anyone EVER needs help with autographs, especially Star Wars or Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, I am here for you!

Really cool coins, would love to own them, I have yet to find anything older than 1936, on any coins.

I am able to tell that the 1978 cent was plated with something. It has that look of having been coated. The details get fuzzy and more "rounded" when a layer of plating is applied. It's still difficult to say just what it was plated with based upon the picture.