The 50 Days Of Lincoln Wheat Cents (Act II)

1945

It is a nice show and I enjoy every coin. Thanks.

1945

Lovely Lincolns!

Nice lamination

1947

1947

This reply is a little late, but I agree with jbuck's comment above; I can look at these things and enjoy them for as long as they keep coming. Victor David Brenner was a genius in his original design of the coin, but the Lincoln Cent, along with that original brilliance of design, has had, I suggest, a fortuitous evolution that partly relates to the greatness of Brenner and the original crafters of the dies, but also includes unpredictable elements such as the way the metals would blend and age, and how the coins can look so many ways at so many ages and stages of wear. (Sometimes I wonder if Brenner pondered how his design would look at different stages of wear; I suggest--perhaps a topic for another thread--that LWCs are more attractive than most all other coins at advanced stages of wear.) For me, one of the joys of collecting Lincolns is that I look at them as works of art, so I can get pleasure from a coin that I might buy for, say, $12, but it has aged in a way that makes it look both beautiful and interesting to me. In fact, for as long as the copper-dominant cents stay in circulation, I'm always looking to find one of those works of art in my pocket that I can buy for one cent.