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The die variation is clearly evident with the placement of the D in two different locations, one closest to the 1970 and the other closest to the rim of the coin. [1] There are some variations created by the mint site using different die sets. The best case of the mint using different die sets is the variation of the letters AM on the Lincoln cent.
The coin has seen several reverse, or tails, designs and now bears one by Lyndall Bass depicting a Union shield. All coins struck by the United States government with a value of 1 ⁄ 100 of a dollar are called cents because the United States has always minted coins using decimals. The penny nickname is a carryover from the coins struck in ...
Below are the mintage figures for the Lincoln cent. The following mint marks indicate which mint the coin was made at (parentheses indicate a lack of a mint mark): P = Philadelphia Mint. D = Denver Mint. S = San Francisco Mint. W = West Point Mint
The 1914-D coin is very rare, with just 1.2 million minted. You can find these pennies ranging from hundreds to thousands on eBay, but one of the pricier coins in mint condition sold for $159,000 ...
Matron Head large cent, 1816–1839 (Copper except as noted) Year Mint Mintage Comments 1816 (P) 2,820,982 1817 (P) 3,948,400 (P) 5 Proof 1818
Another 1909 Lincoln penny, also inked by Brenner, sold at an auction by Great Collections in 2022 for $365,000. In that same auction, four other pennies from 1909 and 1915 each cost more than ...
The penny, also known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a dollar.It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of taxation and finance).
A coin struck using dies never intended for use together is called a "mule". An example is a coin struck with dies designed for different coin denominations, or a coin struck with two dies that both lack a minting year on them, resulting in a 'dateless' coin.