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1985-S Memorial Cent Proof ?

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 Posted 11/26/2019  7:58 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Mrph12 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Not sure looks different then other 1985 memorial cents
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 Posted 11/26/2019  8:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add silverwolf to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
looks like an impaired proof..
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 Posted 11/26/2019  8:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yes I agree with @sw--it is a proof that has circulated a little bit. The portrait, Lincoln Memorial, and letters are all frosted.
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 Posted 11/27/2019  03:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Meraxes to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Plus, after 1974 only proof cents have S mint marks.
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 Posted 11/27/2019  09:52 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Yokozuna to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Years ago, (Yes, Coop. I know I'm old! ) I worked in a game room. We had pinball, video games, pool tables and the other coin-op machined found in 1980's arcades. I would find the plastic cases from Proof Sets in the trash. When I saw them I would recover the coins from the games.

A kid about 15 years old came up and asked for quarters for a proof SBA, so I asked where he got it. He said he had a bunch of coins like that he'd received as gifts from his grandfather. I said he really should hang on to them, but he didn't want them. He kept breaking set and using them in the games and for a hot dog now and then.

One day I told the kid that I would buy them for $3 each, so he started bringing them straight to me. I must have bought 25 or 30 proof and uncirculated sets going back to the early 1960's. He would bring in 2 or 3 at a time. He was happy with getting extra quarters to use in the games and I had a bunch of proof sets that didn't cost much.

I always wondered if he ever got into trouble for selling off his grandfather's birthday and Christmas gifts. I still have the silver sets he brought in.

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Nice find in the wild, congrats.
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Nice Story Yokuzuna Maybe this is one that got away from you

Thanks everyone for the feed back My first proof
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