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I recently bought a complete Whitman book 1941-1973 and was hoping someone could give me an idea of key coins to look for in this date rage. I already checked I do not have the '55 but that is about the only major variety I know for cents. Thanks for any help.
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There aren't really any key dates in that range. All of them can be had very inexpensively. I suppose if you're looking for something that's a little more expensive than a simple common coin, all the 1943 cents are around 25c each, the 1942S could cost up to a dollar, and the 1949S and 1955S are a little tougher to find in mixed wheat cents.
As for the memorial cents - the 1960 small date and 1970S small date are the only two that aren't baseline common coins. My definition of a baseline common coin - anything I have thousands of. I could probably build 500 complete sets short of those two coins. Well, the 1982 small date zinc, 1982 small date copper, 1986, and 2009 P and D presidency coins may be a little tough to find in change...but none of them are even worth a dollar.
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Thank you for the response and I understand that these are very common coins but I am curious as to some of the expensive and rare varieties, ie...  What are some of the other coins in this date range that I can look for that might have value? |
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There is the extremely rare 1969-s doubled die, and several doubled dies for 1972. There are some minor doubled dies for other dates and scores of mint-mark varieties.
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Thank you capt, I will have a look. If anybody else can throw out some other little gems I would appreciate it. Just hoping to get lucky!
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Well, there's the Copper 1943, Steel 1944, and Aluminum 1974 (just out of your date range) but those are for billionaires only.
More realistically, I've had fun hunting down the different S mint mark varieites of the 1940s and 50s, and keep an eye out for the top 4 or 5 major RPM/OMM from 1943 to 1960: 1943 D/D, 1944 D/S, 1946 S/D, 1956 D/D, 1960 D/D Lg/Sm.
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08/31/2011 12:03 am
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United States
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Thank you bibd, not having a whole lot of luck but honestly didn't expect much!
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Canada
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Do you know about CONECA's varietyvista page? There's a nice table of S mintmark varieties there.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Also try Chuck's site at coppercoins.com. You can enter a date or a date range to get a list of varieties.
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United States
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I forgot about the varietyvista page, I will check that out too.
I was on the coppercoins page but did not know about being able to search thank you that is very helpful. It was making for a long day clicking on each and every date, front, back and MM.
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On coppercoins.com just go to the "die variety search" page and click "submit". It will bring back a list of all known Lincoln Cent die varieties - currently more than 2,500 different ones. As for your Whitman book...that's what I was responding to earlier, and there aren't any holes for the varieties (save the 1955 DDO which shouldn't be there). A "Complete basic set" of any series includes only the different standard issues as intended by the mint and should not include errors or die varieties. And frankly, the way I see it - if you are going to include ONE error or die variety, then you need to include them ALL. There's no reason to have only one die variety in any "set". As for rare die varieties in the 1941-1973 span of Lincoln cents...there are a LOT of rare ones, but only a few that are worth a lot. I have a large number of different doubled dies and repunched mintmarks for which there is but one known example to exist. |
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