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Numismatic News - Michigan collector and cherry picker John Anderson reports finding a 1992-D Close AM circulation strike Lincoln Cent that could be worth thousands of dollars! Amazingly, he found it in a "leave a penny, take a penny" container in a local gas station that he's been searching for four years.  This demonstrates that there are still valuable coins out there to be found in circulation. The variety, first identified in 2001, is considered rare, with a total population of about 85 pieces between the three grading services, PCGS, NGC and ANACS. There were none reported for ICG or SEGS. The population of certified examples may be lower than noted due to crossovers from one service to another. Read the entire article
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow! Nice find and read. Thank you.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Fantastic find. It's nice to know those type of coins still wander in the wilds.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Awesome find! That's pretty rare! It'll probably take awhile for another one to be found.
Errers and Varietys.
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Moderator
United States
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It's the dream of every CRH to find such an example.
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Pillar of the Community
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6514 Posts |
Isn't it though nicklesearcher? Fantastic.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Thanks for sharing, very interesting find.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow. I didn't even know this variety. Thanks!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Amazing! Where you see a cent, there is hope to find something such as that!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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So basically I have to go through all these cents I just went through again. Why didn't I think to ever look? Arrrg. Thanks for this news though. Rather excited cause I'm closer to Denver  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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What I can't understand is WHY they are so rare. There 85 coins, for 1992 that was about 1 minutes production run and there is no reason they would got to the trouble of setting up the press and then only run it for just a minute. And die life for the cent die was around a million coins. If they ran the press for any reasonable amount of time at all there should be a whole bunch of them out there. So why aren't they being found?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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because not enough people know to look for them.
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Pillar of the Community
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I totally agree with both Conder and SW's reply!
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Pillar of the Community
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Certainly a wonderful find!  |
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