February 22, 2006 -- On December 29, 2006 a member of the popular Coin Talk, a community website for coin collectors and numismatists, reported the discovery of a coin which seems to have been minted in 1283. It's a Lincoln Head Cent, the most common coin minted by the United States Mint.
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