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Variaty Vista - Catalog of all varieties

http://www.varietyvista.com/index.htm
Lincoln Cent Resource - list of top varieties, mm, etc
http://lincolncentresource.com/index.html
Copper Coins date guide - date by date coin stuff
https://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/date.php

COPPER MEMORIAL CENT

It was the 50th anniversary of the lincoln cent, and time for a design change. Changed from the
“wheat ears” to a design depicting the front of the lincoln memorial. This is a very long and very
interesting series for the Lincoln cent.
The biggest change that took place over this series was the 1982 switch from the 90% copper
“bronze” alloy to copper-plated zinc.

1959
Mintage 609,715,000
Survival estimate
425,000,000 all grades
60+ 150,000
65+ 75,000

1959-D
MINTAGE: 1,279,760,000
All Grades 895,000,000 !!! 60 or Better 200,000 !!!! 65 or Better 100,000

1959 DDO-001
Medium extra thickness around date, with separation on the 959. Later die stages only have
separation on the 9.
1959 DDO-002
Medium spread on LIBERTY

1960
Known best for their large date and small dates, 1960’s coins are a real fun coin. They cause
quite a buzz when released and the small date varieties still demand a premium over their larger
couterparts. They claim the title for most classifications of any year of coin. These coins also are
known for copious die breaks and errors.
The mpst notable variaty is the small date over large date doubled-die
Minted in philly and denver.

1960 DOO-1
Strong spread on BERTY of LIBERTY and light spread on date

1960 DDO-2
Strong spread west on liberty and date
1960 DDO-3
Light spread on date

1960-D DDO-1
Small date on top of large date
1961 - minted in philly and denver
This year, the Philly mint seemed to clean up their act a bit. They doubled the amount of proof
coins they made, while nearly halving the amount of repunched mint marks. However, the
Denver mint worsened. With the speed they were trying to produce circulation cents, the coins
themselves ended up being very poor quality. A 1961-D cent does not exist today in MS67 or
above.

Despite low strike quality, and many die cracks/errors, 1961 didn’t have any notable errors. The
main things to look for is a RPM.

1962
This year was absolutely riddled with double dies, although only ranging from moderate to
minute. Die chips were also abundant, and demand little to no premium.
However, there was really only one easily notable variety, as listed below.

1962 DDR - light spread in USA, mostly in AMERICA

1963 minted in philly and denver

1963 was an interesting year for the penny because in late 1962, the mint chose to change the
composition of the penny from 95% copper and 5% a zinc and tin mixture. They took the tin out
of the coin, making it 95% copper and 5% zinc. People decided to hoard coins for their melt
value then, which led to a coin shortage for the next couple years.
There's only one real prevalent variety, and its a fairly rare class. You can see it below!

1963-D DDO
Doubling only prevalent on 3
Like the previous years, 1964 was an experimental year for the mint.
1964-D DDR

1965 was a very slow year in terms of coin collecting. There wasn’t any really notable errors,
despite all the coins only being minted by philly.

1966 was also a slow year for coin collecting. All the coins were minted in philly, yet there is very
few errors, and none of them are visible to the common collector.

1967 same fucking thing

1968 was still a slow year, despite being minted in all 3 mints.

1969 was a revival in terms of coin errors. The last four years were fairly dry, but we have
several notable varieties in this very funny numbered year.
1969-S DDO
Very obvious doubling in all lettering

1969 DDO
Very slight spread on IGWT, most obvious on god

1970

1970-S DDO
Very solid doubling in IGWT
1971

1971-P
Strong doubling on LIBERTY

1971-S DDO
Strong doubling everywhere (except for date), especially in LIBERTY
1972

1972 DDO
A VERY strong double die, prevalent on every bit of text.

1972 DDO
A less extreme, but still very prevalent double die. Obious everywhere, but especially LIBERTY.

1972 DDO
Strong spread on LIBERTY

1973 DRYYY

1974 DRYYY

1975 DRYYY

1976 DRYYY

1977 DRYYY
1978 DRYYY
1979 DRYYY
1980 DRYYY
1981 DRYYY
1982 DRYYY
1983 a BOUCE BACK FOR THE ERRORS

1983 DDO
Medium spread, obviously in LIBERTY

1983 DDO
Medium spread in IGWT

1984

1984 DDO
Double earlobe
1984 extra thickness in IGWT

1984-D DDO
Light spread in date

1988
1988 DDO
Strong spread south showing as double earlobe

1988 RPMs

1989

1989 RPM
1990

Slow year!!!

1991

No double

1992
Medium spread on designers initals

TOUCHING AM - extra good if D mint mark

1993
Slow tear

1993

1994 slow year

1995

1995 DDO
Strong spread, especially on IGWT and LIBERTY

1995-D DDO
Strong spread, especially in IGWT and LIBERTY

1996 kinda eh

1997
1997 ddo
Strong spread on earlobe
1998 wide am

1999 wide am

2000
Wide am

2001 slow

2002 slow

2003
2003-D DDR
Light spread west on most of the reverse motto

2004
2004-D DDR
Slight spread on most of reverse motto

2005 slow

2006

2006 DDO
Strong spread, especially over IGWT

2007 slow

2008 slow

2009 a large amount of double dyes, but theyre all a bit above my pay grade for now.

2010 slow

2011 slow
2012

2012 DDO
Strong extra thickness on text, pup LIBERTY

2013 slow

2014

2014 DDO
Strong extra thickness on date and LIBERTY

2015

2015 DDO
Strong spread on date
2015 DDR
Strong spread on designers initials

2016 slow

2017 slow

2018 slow

2019 slow