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1996? Lincoln Cent With Smoothed Obverse

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 Posted 12/16/2012  02:33 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mr9865 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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No pro here but I would say it's not grease,looks like cloth.I recommend you PM Mike Diamond on this one.Congrats.
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Noob question... How do I PM? I see email (which is not accepting messages)
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Noob question... How do I PM? I see email (which is not accepting messages)
You would click on the envelope icon but some members don't want to be PM and I think you also have to have a certain amount of posts to be able to PM.You don't have your email turned on either.
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Smack in the face first thing I see is the Wide AM reverse.

I dont think this is a 96, the spacing on the last digits looks more like a 99 and even such It has a Wide AM reverse which is not typically the general characteristic of these years, but a 96 Wide AM was rumored (not verified ) and of course the 99s are obviously more valuable with the reverse, SO I recommend you pimp it out and have experts go over their features and diagnose it properly.
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Nahhh, it's either a 94 or 96. Probly 96.
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again the reverse is rdv-006 and not the typical rdv-007 of all these years being stated. If you can get it verified to be this range of years, it could be quite valuable and well it makes it quite interesting.
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Wow...I didn't consider the reverse! That makes this coin even more interesting.
Again, what was the last year in the 90s where WAM was on business strikes--1992?
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I will go to a coin shop first thing Monday and see what they think.
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Looks like a 1990 struck through to me.
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Yeah could be a 90, 96 or 99
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I cleaned up the photo a little.

1996?--Lincoln-Cent-With-Smoothed-Obverse

It cloud be, and most likely is, a 1990 but could be a 1996.

Edit: Just looked at a '96,this has to be a 1990
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I still can see a 1996 but maybe its just an illusion
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1996?--Lincoln-Cent-With-Smoothed-Obverse
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I'm leaning towards it being 1990.
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Reporting back from visiting the local coin shops.


Shop one: Does not know anything about error coins refused to look at it.

Shop two: Much more knowledgeable but still insisted that is was sanded down even though no zinc is showing. He didn't like the horizontal lines, and dismissed a strike through cloth error. Both did not want me to have it graded.
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The coin was struck through a heavy layer of "grease". By grease I mean any sort of lubricant. Its appearance is entirely typical of such errors.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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