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I have been a coin collector for 40 years. Some years back I got the bright idea of really looking carefully at all of my pocket change and that grew into roll searching. While most of my searching has been pennies, I have gone through many rolls of nickels, dimes and halves. At some point I am sure I will bring home quarter rolls but for now I spend quite a few nights looking through pennies. As near as I can recall, I have looked through about $1500 dollars worth of pennies and have found some very interesting items. I now have a small bank bag full of wheat's dating back to the teens and BU cents from the 60's all the way to the 2009 cents. It was a decision I made early on to keep only the very best examples I ran across so now I have 4 large Mason jars with only the best. I also looked for the odd, being the mint errors like double dies, Cuds, die breaks and some that I can't explain. I have a cent with the liberty printed across Lincolns head and one with some of the Lincoln memorial across the front. Is there any value for the various die breaks that I have saved? An unusual version is the number of 2007's with a break across the back of Lincolns head in the hair line. It's the only date that I have found that variation on. |
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It was a decision I made early on to keep only the very best examples I ran across so now I have 4 large Mason jars with only the best. If this indeed true, I would suggest you going through these Mason jars and put the very,very best in 2x2's and the rest in coin tubes. You don't want your efforts thwarted by nicks and marks caused by your method of storage. As for the Die Cracks, they do have a premium. The bigger the better! |
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Yeah, a "break" is a pretty major event, southerngent. It'll usually appear as a lump on the coin. The "cracks" are just less extreme, that's all, and in most cases (but not all) can be traced to the rim. BTW...  |
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Some of the cracks are pretty wild and cover half of the coin surface. There are a number with 3 on one side. I have several hundred of them. Quite a few run from an edge of the memorial to the rim.
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to CCF.  I am sure we all would like to see photos of your very best finds. As for the 2007 cents with die cracks in the hair, they are very common but as stated the bigger the crack the better. I look forward to seeing your coin photos. John1  |
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I would love to show some of them off. My digital camera isn't up to the task. Any suggestions?
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Pillar of the Community
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you can scan them. the scans can actually turn out pretty good
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I may just try that. Thanks.
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I use a scanner too. This crack was scanned. Just make sure the picture isn't too big. I generally have to reduce the size of my image to post.  |
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Wow, that's great. I don't have a scanner at home but will scan some from work. Thanks!
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Scanning will do the job when you're showing off cracks and not requesting a grade. FWIW, I held back a few of these "cracked-up-in-the-head" '07 cents, myself, just because I had some 50s cents "cracked-up" there, as well, and that was the first time I had noticed that on the zinc cents. Didn't know these were so common, that's news to me. I'll just guess, unless the cracks are terribly wild or extreme, they'd principally just serve as "markers" for that obverse die, and not have very much utility to a collector beyond that (IMHO). Quote:
I have a cent with the liberty printed across Lincolns head and one with some of the Lincoln memorial across the front. Now those I'd like to see. Why don't you scan those in, too? |
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I agree with ratman4762 on storing them differently just to keep them in the great condition they are. Like you, I started out the same way and my main goal is to have a complete roll of each year and mint. If you look around, there are others doing the same and it makes it a little easier to see what you do and do not have. All the "special" and "unique" finds always go into a 2x2 along with something that is very high grade. To me, the fun is trying to figure out where these have been, why someone finally traded them in and where can I get more.
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