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Found this in the same ziploc.   |
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I bet that looks real nice close up. Looks like it wants to take Abe's head off. Nice Lam.
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10/29/2021 9:07 pm
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I'm still going through them do hopefully there will be more.
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Nice to see a whole series of parallel lines for this lam. Nice find @old.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Nice lam, Oldfordman!
Spence, I'm not sure what the parallel lines are, maybe just damage. The lam is coming from the 9 and heading at a northwest angle to the throat of Abe.
-makecents-
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Pillar of the Community
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The lines are also LAM I think.
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The lines are also LAM I think. I won't say they are not but have never seen lams run perpendicular to each other. -makecents-
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Bedrock of the Community
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A short story: Back in the early Wheat cent years, a lot of these coins are showing a lot of circulation wear. Why is that? Because then a cent was like a half dollar or a dollar back in that day. It was a coin treasured and spent a lot for buying things. Until the mid 1930's we see rolls starting to be saved for another day. We see these up for auctions and the prices are huge. So the coin saving back then often occurred when new designs came out. The last year and the first year are these easier examples to find in nice condition. The rest, look like they came through a rough road before your hand found them. So the demand and the need to fill an album was not realized yet at that time. When you walk in these shoes with that information, then it makes cents. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Good points. One cent in 1912 was worth about 28 cents in today's money.
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If you drop a quarter today, you seek it out. To them a cent, was just that valuable as well.
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice find Oldfordman. Like finding the lams.
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The lam is coming from the 9 and heading at a northwest angle to the throat of Abe. Ok yes I see that now. It is odd that this seems to be a lam, but runs perpendicular to what also seem like lams.  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Bedrock of the Community
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A loaf of bread in 1912 cost about 5 cents, or around $1.40 in today's dollars.
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Could be, VestigeWolf, I try to learn at least one new thing everyday and am not at all afraid to be proven wrong.  What I see on the OP's coin, with the pics given, looks like PSD to me, though. Quote:
I won't say they are not but have never seen lams run perpendicular to each other. -makecents-
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