1988-P "Reverse Of '89" Lincoln Cent (An RDV-006 By Any Other Name.)

I like a good rain. Well done!

Very nice. Acetone and an Air-Tite
John1

I have been hunting for that coin for the last two weeks. Rolls after rolls. I'm jealous. Alot of the FG are faint or dinged up. Nice find..

Thanks guys!

@CH27 yeah, I was super excited that one of the nicest 88s in the batch was the RDV-006. Feels like I never get this luck of the good die and the good coin coinciding lol

@Minnimarine A good thing that Coop taught me about this variety is that if the FG is faint, it is almost certainly not an 88 reverse of 89. The reason that 89 dies were used was that they ran out of the 88s at both mints that year and had to dip into the 89s. This happened at the end of the year, and as a result, the dies were not used long enough to reach a late die state where the initials were abraided away. If you find an RDV-006 on an 88, it should be very crisp and clear.

Another thing to be aware of is the shape of the devices on America. I actually saw this was an RDV-006 before I even got to the FG with the scope because the AM in America had thicker, flatter lettering than the 005s. Coop has good infographics on all of this.

Edit: Also, you can probably expect to hunt a lot longer than two weeks unless you're quite lucky Minnimarine. I have been coin roll hunting for about two years now. I don't blow through boxes like some people out there do since I'm very methodical about searching every coin for even minor errors and varieties, but I've probably hunted at least ~25 boxes of pennies in that time. Keep at it though! You'll find a lot of stuff along the way.

That is impressive! It's rare to find one, finding three is crazy! Congrats on some great hunting.

WTG - Great Find!