Lincoln Display Idea

this is for you celticknot, I do like your suggestions.
adding an extra slot to do the comparison of the VDB is I think to repetitive.

Keep the suggestions and feedback coming!!

Why does nobody ever consider the 1910-1917 no VDB on the shoulder design? Seems like a fairly major design variety to me....?

Maybe the shell casing Cents also?

VDB was removed from the back in 1909, you know. It was restored to the shoulder on the obverse, where it has been since 1918.

I think the problem you are having, honestly, id you are adding too much stuff to them that people wouldn't put in a coin board anymore because of fear of damage. Most of those commemorative coins and all are put into air-tites, flips and such. The reason those 50 States quarter maps sell as coin boards is because they are easier coins to get, and less valuable if the coins get damaged.

Your boards look great, but they might have too much rarity for the common collector to be able to get their hands on to have a completed board to show off.

I like the Lincoln above and the Ike, but would never have or want the commemorative because I am a circulating collector and folders work just as well, and they sort of protect the coins "inside" them. So if you want to find the hot seller, you have to look for the lowest common denominator and go for a design that lets more people complete the board like the State Quarters Maps. Like for the Ike board you had mintages, which shows off the coins better if you have them in the hole like a folder or album has for that "ooooh, aaah; there are only 2 million of those!" factor.

Maybe an idea from a folder, Whitman Kennedy halves 1964-1985 has a "hole" for 1970 half, but the hole is already filled with some coin board as a plug that says "Sold in Mint Sets only" I think this can be removed without tearing the folder, haven't tried yet since I don't have anything to fill the hole with; but that place holder makes it look better and explain why it is there. Then the Ike/SBA folder doesn't have a hole to begin with for 1973 and your coin board does. I don't know how common they would be to find but think I must be very lucky to get 5 sets of P&D to begin with.

for selling a LOT of them you got to look at novelty items really. 20th century type set, Pre$ (1 hole per pres, not P&D). Birth year sets, that have a place for the coins, a photo, copy of the birth certificate, something better than the thing from the Mint to actually display that has the coins as an important focal point, but puts the one born as the MOST important point.

the 20th century type sets are mostly ruined like mine by the State Quarters because everyone I know either puts the coin design they like best of their state in, and that doesn't always mean it was a 20th century minted coin.


These all look good and you can make anything for yourself you want. If you are having fun making them and having fun playing with PShop, then don't stop or let the fact you have no big seller stop you from having fun. Just remember you have to have something that hits home with someone to sell it to them and in this day and age of graded and slabbed coins, the coin board might not be that big anymore unless you find just the right thing that hits home for a LOT of people. I don't remember the last time I saw a coin board for sell anywhere nor what it had for it if it had varieties, etc; and don't even remember the last time I saw one in use.

So when all is said and done these look good just remember necessity is the mother of invention, and invention takes 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. good luck finding the hot seller design.

Yeah I realize adding commemoratives to a coin board may or may not work. I have considered removable plugs, possibly with an image of the commemorative. The eisenhower Board I probably will give a shot but the lincoln was more of a trial and error thing and not sure what I"ll do with it at this point.

As far as rarity, I think this board and the Ike board are pretty affordable coins with the exception of the 1918 illinois centennial. the 1990 ike is a $20 coin and the 5 star general coin you can get for $35-$40 on ebay. You can get all the clad likes for just a couple bucks each and the 40% silver likes for under $10. For around $140 you could complete the ike set plus the two commemoratives. to me thats not much at all.

As far as the lincoln set the only two coins that would be expensive are the 2010 and the 1918, 2010 you can find for around $30 now on ebay. the 1918 is around $130 on ebay which is why Id probably have a plug for that one, besides that its a cheap board.

My best selling coin boards have been the indian head and the lincoln board 1909-1940. I've sold 20+ boards since April of just those two titles and over 50 total. If you get a few semi key dates plus the common dates and you almost or already surpass the $140 total for the ike set.

As far as comparing them to folders. Id say that the boards protect them better as long as you keep them under glass. I had a BU set of lincolns in a folder and hadn't looked at it in a year or so and noticed that it had gotten spots. I have Bu lincolns from 1941-2015 framed in a coin board and they still look the same as when I put them in.

As far as a 20th century type set Ive had one made and think it looks great, I'll probably get that into production before the year ends.

Ive typically been a circulated collector too but have started to get an inch for the commemoratives so you never know.

Its true that the coin boards have lost there popularity due to albums and folders and are very hard to find. They stopped being manufactured in the 1940's. Coin boards are on sale on ebay from time to time.

These coin boards are just another affordable option for some one who wants to display some of there coins on a wall. I realize some people don't feel safe doing that with the threat of a thief and obviously its not for them then.

I like them.

Maybe not the very first, but I think most will consider it sooner rather than later. My first 1969 proof set was bought within my first two years of collecting.

well I have no idea what coin boards go for without a frame and glass and such so I only know those State Quarters maps are about $20 or more retail. For those who missed their chance to get a birth-year set or who were born prior to the mint offering thing, that is mostly what I was thinking of. so I am curious what a cost of one of these things would be and what they look like.

I will probably wrongly apply the addage, but a coin board is only worth what people will pay for it, so who knows what anyone would buy.

good luck on the design you already have produced and sold/selling. I will be watching for a board that catches my eye and creates the itch for me to acquire it.