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Originally posted by sn31
...Anyway,I was just curious to find out how many Lincoln collectors there are in the forum....
It might be easier to ask who doesn't collet Lincolns cents.LOL I don't have a complete cent set. It's a lot harder to find them in Australia. I look through boxes of "World coins" and they often have a few wheat cents. Been doing this for a few years and have found a couple 1911-S and 1912-s pennies.  |
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I collect Lincoln BIEs.  |
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pennys and dimes are all I can buy or find
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Originally posted by Joeyuk
Here is a thread on the cigarette packs with 2 cent change in them.
http:// (046) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed &threadid=377830&highlight_key=y&keyword1=cigarette%20pack
WOW! so he was telling me the truth, I really thought he was shooting me a line of well you know. Heck I may have a few more of these babies because he owned a Service Station at the time and said he would cut the pennies out of the pack before he filled up the machine |
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So what does everybody consider a complete set?Having at least one of every date?Or having each and every one?
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To me a complete set is all dates and mint marks,, the addition of the top varieties is a bonus . I would love to own a 55 DDO,, That is one of my goals as a Lincoln collector,, which has yet to be met. Rick |
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 What does BIE stand for? [? quote:
Originally posted by longnine009
I collect Lincoln BIEs.
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Rick if I happen to find a stash of them here you will be one of the first on my list to receive one. We are having my daughters birthsay party here today but I may drag some of them out tonight and sort through a few jars of them and see if I find some of them, he didnt sort anything out as far as wheats/memorial he just put cents together and quarters together and so forth so this may take quite awhile but if I do you were already on my mind to send one to so cross your fingers. One other question, were the 55 DDO in the cigarete packs the real deals or were they copies ? Edited by Bryan1315
06/25/2006 4:36 pm
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Hi Bryan
Reading your post made my heart skip a beat !!at this point everything I have control of is crossed !!!
I have read a few of the stories ,but never having seen packs with coins in them ,, and both of my parents are deceased so I could not ask them, The story just kind of dropped for me.
I would have to believe that the coins would be legitimate.
Rick
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I had never heard of it either until I just brought it up to my grandfather last night while talking to him on the phone and he remembered how he had aquired them, then to my suprise he said he should have a few of them in one of his boxes (either one of them he has already given me or one of them he still has) but maybe since I already found one of them in one of these boxes, they may all be here stashed in one of the jars in one of the boxes I have here
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06/25/2006 4:45 pm
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Originally posted by thingee
What does BIE stand for?
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Originally posted by longnine009
I collect Lincoln BIEs.
BIE is a generic term for a Lincoln Cent that has a die break-(piece out of the die) in the word LIBERTY, mostly on coins struck in the 50's. When they started to get some attention they were mostly breaks between the B & E and so they were called BIEs. But that just became a catch all word for breaks between any of the letters. The one in the photo is a BEIR and JC58-1002 is a catalog number from Jean Cohen's book that she published in 1967. It has over 6,000 drawings in it. In 1965 a national club called the BIE Guild formed. It was entirely a correspondence club of a few hundred collectors. They collected their BIEs, made drawings of them and put together a reference book--The BIE Guild handbook. They also collected the many die cracks associated with BIEs and they apparently gave nicknames to everything: devil horns, spiked heads, bow-ties, bullet to the head--(a break in the field above LIBERTY that looks like a bullet behind Lincolns head), pencil to the ear, date dots such as 196.1, fish hooks, r-dates, goatees, devil tails, connectors--(die cracks between letters), antennas--(die cracks coming out of the tops of letters) etc. etc, etc, "The Letters BIE is to be understood as standing for the 'BEST IN ERRORS' and not the diebreak between the letters 'B' and 'E' as formerly supposed. John E. Markley Former BIE GUILD member. Edited by longnine009
06/25/2006 6:25 pm
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I guess I'm like you Rick,I still need the best ones,that would definitly make it complete.All in all,I've come along way with this set,and I am happy for what I've accomplished so far.One of these days,I may try working on another one for myself.Good luck everyone,Happy Lincoln Hunting!sn31.
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I dont see any bags of pennies from the mint....where can someone get a bag or sack ? From the bank?
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quote:
Originally posted by longnine009
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Originally posted by thingee
What does BIE stand for?
[?quote:
Originally posted by longnine009
I collect Lincoln BIEs.
BIE is a generic term for a Lincoln Cent that has a die break-(piece out of the die) in the word LIBERTY, mostly on coins struck in the 50's. When they started to get some attention they were mostly breaks between the B & E and so they were called BIEs. But that just became a catch all word for breaks between any of the letters. The one in the photo is a BEIR and JC58-1002 is a catalog number from Jean Cohen's book that she published in 1967. It has over 6,000 drawings in it.
In 1965 a national club called the BIE Guild formed. It was entirely a correspondence club of a few hundred collectors. They collected their BIEs, made drawings of them and put together a reference book--The BIE Guild handbook. They also collected the many die cracks associated with BIEs and they apparently gave nicknames to everything: devil horns, spiked heads, bow-ties, bullet to the head--(a break in the field above LIBERTY that looks like a bullet behind Lincolns head), pencil to the ear, date dots such as 196.1, fish hooks, r-dates, goatees, devil tails, connectors--(die cracks between letters), antennas--(die cracks coming out of the tops of letters) etc. etc, etc,
"The Letters BIE is to be understood as standing for
the 'BEST IN ERRORS' and not the diebreak between
the letters 'B' and 'E' as formerly supposed.
John E. Markley
Former BIE GUILD member.
Just found this in my 55's. I hope that you can see this scan. Is this a BIER cent? It is a little difficult to see by my scan but, there is definitely a solid copper line between the B and E.  |
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Debbie,the one I want you to check out for me is a 1941D,I found it today searching through my penny bag.sn31.
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