This is a 1953-D Lincoln cent showing an extremely strong secondary mintmark punched to the West of the primary punch. It is listed in the CONECA files as RPM-002, Wexler has it as WRPM-002 and Coppercoins lists it as 1953D-1MM-002. It grades Fine/Very Fine but unfortunately has a bit of damage near the rim at […]

This is a 1955 Lincoln cent from the Philadelphia mint featuring a fairly strong doubled-die obverse. It is listed as 2-O-II+V in the CONECA files, WDDO-002 in Wexler’s files and is listed as FS#1c-021.9 in the Cherrypicker’s Guide. This coin is actually much harder to find than its more famous brother but as it is […]

This is a 1945-D Lincoln Cent featuring a mintmark that was repunched to the north. It is listed in the CONECA files as RPM-001, Wexler has it as WRPM-001 and Coppercoins lists it as 1945D-1MM-001. Found in a lot of wheat cents purchased on eBay, it grades in Fine condition with a small hit to the […]

This 1940-S Lincoln cent shows a very nice retained cud on the reverse. This happens when a portion of the die breaks off during striking, resulting in the metal flowing into the space where the broken die portion was. These are not too often found in the wild and in this case it was found […]

This 1917 doubled die Lincoln cent is listed as FS#101 in The Cherrypicker’s Guide, DDO-001 in the CONECA files, WDDO-001 in the Wexler files and 1DO-001 on Coppercoins. It exhibits Class I counter-clockwise doubling and grades in Good condition. It was found in a solid date roll of coins purchased on eBay and is worth […]