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| Lincoln Cents - Styles Of Numbers In Dates
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SquareCircle
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 Posted 05/16/2025 08:45 am
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If I'm not mistaken, the short 7 made a comeback in the early 70s, between 70-73, but since 1974 the long 7 has been used exclusively. Off the top I'd say the 7s from 70-73 fall somewhere in between the long 7 and the original short 7, perhaps leaning more toward the latter. But I'll leave that question for others to examine.
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In the 1940s, all eleven of the fours in the dates are different, including the second four in 1944. I don't know if I'd be able to distinguish that, and I'm getting eyestrain just thinking about it...
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| Lincoln Cents - Styles Of Numbers In Dates
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SquareCircle
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United States
122 Posts |
Posted 05/15/2025 09:36 am
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If there's an existing thread about this topic (I couldn't find one), then this post can be moved to it. Either way, feel free to add any background info, corrections, etc.
My favorite coin is the Lincoln cent, specifically from the "wheat" era. It's the only specific type of U.S. coin that I have any sort of collection of (although I haven't bought any of them).
Anyway, I've observed something about the styles of different numbers used in the dates of the Lincolns.
"3" - A "short" 3 was used in 1913, 1923, and 1930-1933. Then a "long" 3 appeared in 1934 only for some reason. The "short" 3 returned for the rest of the 1930s, but the "long" one reappeared in 1943 and has been used since.
"5" - A "short" 5 was used in 1915, 1925, 1935 and 1945. Then a "long" 5 appeared in 1950 and has been used since.
"7" - A "short" 7 was used in 1917, 1927 and 1937. Then a "long" 7 appeared in 1947. The "short" 7 returned in 1957, but the "long" one reappeared in 1967 and has been used since.
There may be more to it than that, but that's what I've noticed.
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| Lincoln Cent Collectors
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SquareCircle
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United States
122 Posts |
Posted 05/12/2025 11:26 am
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I don't do varieties so I skipped the 1922 (no d).
My Whitman album (given to me over 30 years ago when it was already old) doesn't even have a spot for this. |
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| Post Your Stories & Pix Of Found Money
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SquareCircle
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United States
122 Posts |
Posted 05/12/2025 08:43 am
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This weekend my wife's sister was out walking and found some sort of container on the ground (I don't recall how she described it). Inside were the following:
(a) $1.78 in common U.S. coins.
(b) 7 coins from the Philippines.
(c) 1 coin each from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Japan & Korea. (The last 2 she identified with a phone app, which I'd never seen anyone do before.) All the foreign coins were modern (1980s or so) and common looking.
(d) Oddly, a broken piece of what looked like a cheap replica of a Morgan Dollar.
(e) A much-circulated 1923-S Lincoln cent.
She's not a coin collector so I don't know what she's going to do with the foreign coins, but she gave me the 1923-S penny. It now fills a slot in my rather sparse 1909-1940 wheat penny album (in which none of the pennies were bought by me, and pretty much all are well-worn space fillers that serious collectors probably wouldn't look at). The 1923-S is now the lowest-mintage wheat penny I have; the previous record holder was my 1932-D. |
| | Forum: "Post Your..." Gallery Topics |
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| Coinstar Finds! (Including Bank Counters And Other Machines)
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SquareCircle
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United States
122 Posts |
Posted 05/06/2024 07:36 am
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Ok, I'm wondering how many machines some of you are checking every day to get the finds you're posting about. I am on a 20 machine dry spell right now, and it's from a variety of Walmart stores as I've been making deliveries to them for work. I'm honestly wondering if I'm unknowingly competing with store employees that see something shiny and take matters into their own hands as they see everyone who dumps change into there.
Well, there are only 3, maybe 4 machines that I get to check on a regular basis, and only one of those has ever yielded much of anything for me. On average I get to check that one less than once a week. I think the main difference between that one and the others is that no one can see if there's anything in the reject slot unless they make an intentional effort to do so. The slot is dark and recessed, not to mention consistently dirty, which makes me suspect that store employees don't pay any particular attention to it. |
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