What's your favorite Lincoln cent variety?

Robert · Senior Member

There are so many to choose from! I'm not looking for the one you'd most like to have purely due to its value etc. I'm looking for the one you like most because how/when/where you found it, it's a special year, etc.

Personally I like 1970-S small and large dates because thanks to Chuck's book I'm now able to distingtuish them easily. At shows I've seen small dates labeled as large dates and large dates labeled as small dates. Knowledge is power!

So what Lincoln variety do you like and why?

eagames · Expert Member

1936 1DO-002 because it was one of the first variety coins I ever picked that I knew was worthy of getting graded.

wavysteps2003 · Expert Member

I have two favorites, which were my first two discovery pieces; 2004P-1DO-001 + 2004P-1DR-001 and 2004P-1DR-002.

These two finds propelled me into the variety coin collecting and I have not stop since. Am I having fun? You bet, lol.

BJ Neff

Steven · Expert Member

1984 1DO-001 I think may have been the first decent variety coin that I found. Got me going even stronger.

Steven

Bob P · Site Admin

My very first find when I was 12 years old was a 1956D RPM 001, so I am a little partial to them. My favorite has to be the 1972P1DO-001 though. When I found it, I think my heart stopped for a few seconds. It definitely got me more interested, and it's been like that ever since.

Dick · Expert Member

Gentlemen, I can't sat if there actually is one for me. I haven't been in this "search", long enough to choose. Maybe it will be the one that got Bob's attention, the 1972S, with a bar on col. 6. That one came from the wifes change, that she gave me to check. I have a big bunch of '70's, that came in the 60 rolls my kid-sister sent me recently. Yes, I'm STILL working on them! Who knows what will surface next . I'll post it if there is one, worthy of your attention.
Keep cool, where-ever yopu are. It is getting hot here! Got up to 96.
Dick

coppercoins · Site Admin

I don't have a single favorite, but I am quite partial to 1946S-1OM-001 because of the challenge in finding them. I am the only person I know to have found three of them. One of mine is the coin used for photographs on this site. The other two were lower grade and were sold years ago.

hasfam · Veteran Member

I'm partial to any variety I find. I get more excited looking at a $2.00 RPM I pulled from a roll than looking at someone else's 1955 DD. Like other people, I have a special place in my heart for my first decent variety found which was the 1983 DDO-1. Not a biggie but the seperation was enough to get excited for a few seconds.
Rock

Dick · Expert Member

All those nickels, dimes, and quarters sent to me by my "little sister", did have one that was different. I, 1927-S, in G-4. Not worth much, but not you every day nickel, either!
Dick

Bob P · Site Admin

It was an every day nickel when you were very very young Dick...wasn't it?? Laughing

carlb · Advanced Member

No takers on the 1943? I like all those. I have 30 rolls of them. Just facinating.

shanegalang · New Member

I bought a guys collection of coins and in it is a 1970 S that has a nice toning to it. Sort of a rainbow around the rim on the obverse. I also have a 1909 S (no VDB Crying or Very sad

) that was in a book of cents that I got for about 10 bucks. Shane

GarryN · Expert Member

My favorite variety is the 1955 DDO. It was minted the year after I was born. I can remember going to downtown Chicago with my mom to shop and see a movie when I was a kid. We would walk up the stairs from the subway on Dearborn and there was a donut shop right there near Washington Street and a coin shop a few doors down. I remember seeing a poster in there about the 1955 doubled die. I would drag my mom in there because I was fascinated with these lucite paper weights that had new pennies floating in them. She never bought me one, but I liked looking at them. Smile

That was my first experience with a coin shop. That place is long gone. But at that time I was saving every interesting coin that was in our change dish at home. I saved every 1943 cent I could find there. I saved every war nickel I found. I had a 1943/2 nickel and didnt even know it until recently. I was saving every wheat cent prior to 1940 that I saw. And every buffalo nickel and the few standing liberty quarters I saw even though there were hardly ever any dates on them and it cut into my candy budget.... A quarter was big money for a 10 yr old then.

I was maintaining Whitman folders of mercury dimes, Lincoln cents, Washington quarters and such, to the extent it finally ticked off my dad because I was probably hoarding his lunch money. I found a 1916 mercury dime that was FR-2 at best and I looked at it so long that I convinced myself it was a 1916-D. I cut out the filling in the slot in my Whitman folder and placed it in there. I still have it. But now I have a real 1916-D mercury dime that is VG-10 and a real 1955 doubled die cent.

cladking · Member

This is a tough call. I like the way a 1969-P looks in gem. It was the best of all of the designs to my eye. So I guess it's the DDO.

The '68-P is a real sleeper and people are going to be surprised if they ever try to find nice well struck gems of this without carbon spots.

There are several others that appeal to me on one level or another. The '70-S sm dt is one of the most enjoyable to look for since you can actually find one once in a while.

carlb · Advanced Member