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A List Of Pennies To Look For When CRHing:

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Someone on realcent forums reposted this from another forum. So now I'm rereposting it here, since people always ask what to look for.


1909-S VDB
1909-S
1909-S Over horizontal S
1911-S
1911-D Over D (RPM)
1914-D
1914-S
1917-P Doubled Die Obverse
1922 No D
1931-S
1936 Double Die Obverse
1944 D/S Variety 1
1944 D/S Variety 2
1946 S/D
1955 Double die
1970-S Doubled die
1936 Double die obverse, the date, LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST has some doubling.
1941 Double die reverse: Doubling of the date and LIBERTY.
1943-D The D is stamped over another D (RPM).
1943-P Should be a steel cent but there are reports of some struck using copper.
1944-D D over S the mint mark D is stamped over the S.
1946-S S Mint mark stamped over a D mint mark.
1955-D Stamped over a horizontal D.
1955-P No VDB.
1955-P Lincoln Wheat cent Double Die cent.
1956-D D Stamped over a D mint mark.
1958-P Double die obverse.
1959-D First year for Memorial reverse, check for wheat reverse.
1960-D D over D RPM
1960-P Look for Small Date variety, the 6 has a shorter stem than normal.
1963-D Check to see if the 3 in the date is struck over another 3.
1968-D D mint mark stamped over another D.
1968-D Double die reverse, strong doubling in the word AMERICA.
1969-S Lincoln Memorial double die, all design features strongly doubled.
1970-S Small date Lincoln Cent with a doubled die reverse, strong doubling of TRUST & LIBERTY.
1970-S Small Date high 7.
1970-S Level 7. The 7 is level with rest of date.
1971-P Double die obverse, strong doubling on LIBERTY & IN GOD WE TRUST.
1972-p Lincoln doubled die obverse
1973-P No V.D.B.
1980-D A shadow of an S mint mark struck above the D.
1982-P Doubling of IN GOD WE TRUST.
1982 DDR
1983-P Doubled die reverse doubled, IN GOD WE TRUST doubled.
1984-P Doubled ear, look at the ear lobe.
1984-D Doubled Date.
1989-P No VDB.
1992 Close AM
1992-D Close AM
1994-P Doubling of the last three columns on reverse.
1995-P Double die, LIBERTY doubled.
1995-D Double die obverse, strong doubling of the date and LIBERTY.
1996 Wide AM
1997-P Double Die, look at the ear lobe like the 1984.
1998-P Wide AM reverse Lincoln Memorial cent.
1999-P Wide AM reverse Lincoln Memorial cent.
1999-P There may be double dies varieties.
2000-P Wide AM in America.
2003-P May be doubling of the steps, experts say "yes", mint says "no".
2006-P Double Die Obverse
2009 Look for doubling of the thumb


I don't know about you but I think....
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 Posted 02/18/2013  9:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverTracker to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the list I think.....
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Thanks this will come in handy
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 Posted 02/18/2013  9:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add amida17 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Great list....better still is to learn what is normal in the minting process. When you understand what can and an not happen during minting you will be more successful. Look at each coin on its own....remember.... maybe not everything has been found yet......
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 Posted 02/18/2013  10:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add j-win to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks just like my ridiculously long list... Yeah, I always think in the back of my mind that it takes me far too long to look for all those errors... because I've yet to find a single one yet.
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Thanks a lot, definitely a good list to be able to reference when needed.. I know I would never memorize all of these!! It's nice to have just one list instead of looking for each individually!
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I would suggest searching what ones are most common. Some of these are rare. You have to decide how hard you want to look at each coin. With a list this long, you would be checking almost every coin with a fine toothed comb.

I mean, I guess most of them are rare. I never found any varieties, and now I'm in the midst of getting a Ryedale! I'm gonna send those zincs back to the bank before you can say HOOOOOAAARRRDD
Then I'm gonna pull out all the nice wheaties and live happily ever after.

I'm a bit jealous of people that find all kinds of WAMs, I never even found the more common ones. Most pennies in my area are mucky, so my fear is that even if I found one it would never look like that nice one that was recently posted. That was a sweet coin for sure! When I see a normal 1999 Cent in good condition its so rare on its own I almost keep them....
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02/18/2013 11:38 pm
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you would be checking almost every coin with a fine toothed comb.



exactly what you should be doing!

variety searching can be tedious...that is what makes finding one worth it!
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I just stick with the wheaties and the 1982's and older haha seems way to hard to find those dates
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Most pennies in my area are mucky, so my fear is that even if I found one it would never look like that nice one that was recently posted


My thoughts exactly! I would hate to find a rare penny in poor condition, that's always been a huge fear of mine. Never see an error/variety penny in nasty condition on this forum and it makes me wonder...
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Thank for the list, I do get a lot of US coins living in a border city... Thanks
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1996 Wide AM
Rare?
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Was there a 1993-P WAM, the change over year, just like the 1992 P&D CAM? I remember reading an article a while back that there is. Just the "P".....not the "D".
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My thoughts exactly! I would hate to find a rare penny in poor condition, that's always been a huge fear of mine. Never see an error/variety penny in nasty condition on this forum and it makes me wonder...


I looked forever to find a 1970-S small date. I finally found one after checking a bajillion pennies....


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Hey Broseph, I'm sure you will/have but I want to make sure you do some extended research on the sorter before buying it. The Ryedale tends to kick early date wheat cents in with the zinc. Not a big deal if your goal is to hoard copper but for CRHers, it's a toss-up on whether this machine would save time. I'm guessing most of us would spend too much time double sorting and rechecking the zincs for early LWC's. I guess it just depends when you get down to it. Good luck either way.

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I looked forever to find a 1970-S small date. I finally found one after checking a bajillion pennies....


Rats!
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