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New Member
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Ok, I was searching through a very unusual box of pennies yesterday, and I have a few questions about it. About one every 10 rolls, I would find a 1960 in very good shape, with a lot of the luster still left from the mint. What would be the cause of this, and could anyone offer advice as to what grade most of them are?   I also found a 1968S. Is this a proof that found it's way into circulation? Any comments/ help is welcome! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My guess is that some people buy rolls of 1960 to look for the small dates.....throw the rest back into circulation possibly? Otherwise just dumb luck you found so many nice ones.
1968S was struck in BU and Proof.
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New Member
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How do I know if my 68S is just BU or a proof then?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I found an entire roll of BU Red pre-1965 Lincolns in the last two boxes I searched so I guess it cannot be too odd to find a few old BUs in a few hundred cents. As for your 1968-S, it is certainly a business strike and almost 260 million were minted. A proof would have frosted devices and brilliant mirrored fields, making it look significantly different from a business strike.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I would guess too that someone had a pile of those just sitting around and with the economy being what it is, possibly out of a job, time to dump coins in the bank. Those got into rolls and now you have them. Imagine if that was the case and you could find the person dumping those. May have had hundreds of similar ones.
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Wouldn't a 1968-S be a brilliant proof with no frosting? Also I think the letters and numbers would be alot sharper then a business strike. John1  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You my friend just hit a mini roll searching jackpot. hehehehe I love finding even one of these in a box. What happened is someone dumped them into circulation very recently. They may have just been emptied from a very old hoard. Some people like a friend of mine save change for decades, most of them probably end up getting dumped into a coin star machine or the like.
They look to be from AU to low MS grade. The vast majority of the brilliant 1960's grade between MS-60 and 63.
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New Member
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I have opened dozens of boxes of lincolns, and found BU cents in the past. I have also bought 100's of BU rolls on ebay (on 1960 cents) and just dumped them back into circulation after not finding any small dates. So this thread really doesn't surprise me........ |
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Bedrock of the Community
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A proof would have frosted devices and brilliant mirrored fields, making it look significantly different from a business strike. Frosted proofs are rather scarce to rare before 1973, most are brilliant proofs with little or no contrast between the fields and devices. (After 73 frosted proofs are th rule and brilliant pieces are the rarity.) Edited by Conder101
11/24/2009 1:34 pm
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Posted 11/11/2009 8:06 pm
