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Lincoln Cents Driving Coin Collecting

Coinblogger — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:54:40 +0000

The Lincoln Cents market is driving the coin market right now. There is no coin series more in the spot light right now among coin collectors. Much of the excitement concerning the Lincoln cents coin series revolves around the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth.

Key Date Lincoln Cents

One of my favorite coin writes, Mark Ferguson, has a great article right now on Coin Values about coin buying trends. Mark’s article provides great insights into the current coin buying trends of coin dealers. Mark states that coin collectors are buying lots of lincoln cents as both individual coins and early date rolls of Lincoln cents.

Due to this great interest among coin collectors with collecting Lincoln cents, I have created a new website dedicated to collecting Lincoln cents. This new website is titled Key Date Lincoln Cents. I hope that this website grows into a great coin collecting website and coin collecting resource for people wanting to start collecting Lincoln Cents.

So far I have only created several articles on Key Date Lincoln Cents. My first articles were on the 1909 S VDB Lincoln Cent, 1909 S lincoln cent, and the 1914 D lincoln cent.

Key Date Lincoln Cents is going to describe the key date lincoln cents, the most popular varieties of lincoln cents and tips for collecting lincoln cents. I would love for you to visit my new site and leave a comment. Additionally, if you are a Lincoln cent collector, I would love for you to write an article for either Coinblogger or Key Date Lincoln Cents.

Lincoln Cent History Video

Coinblogger — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:16:53 +0000

Here is a really cool video for all you Lincoln cent collectors. The US Mint produced this video to market the new 2009 lincoln cents. This video discusses the history of the U.S. cent from the Large Cent to the Small Cent. Extra time is spent discussing the history of the Lincoln cent from the first 1909 VDB lincoln cent to the Lincoln wheat cents without the initials VDB to the Lincoln memorial cent.

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you are a lincoln cent collector, please introduce yourself in the comments below. I would love to get to know some fellow lincoln cent collectors.

1857 Flying Eagle Cent

Coinblogger — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:29:58 +0000

One of my favorite things about coin collecting is that it combines my love of coins with history. And there is no better example of this than the 1857 Flying Eagle Cent.

1857 Flying Eagle Cent

The 1857 Flying Eagle Cent was the very first small cent coin type. I love collecting the first year of any coin type. In addition to being the first of this coin type, the Flying Eagle Cent was only produced from 1857 to 1858.

This 1857 Flying Eagle Cent is perfect for US type coin collectors because it is historic and it is not too expensive. This is the perfect way to get a Flying Eagle Cent design coin.

When looking at a new coin type, I always want to know, why did the Mint decide to create this coin? And, what was wrong with the old coin type?

In the case of this Small Cent, there were two reasons for the change. The Flying Eagle Cent replaced the Large Cent. The large cent was weighed 10.89 grams, which is over 4 times the weight of today’s pennies. People didn’t like to carry these large cents. For a coin as common as a one cent, people wanted a smaller coin.

The second reason for the change, and probably the more important reason, was the cost producing the Large Cent was too great. The cost was starting to be more than one cent and the U.S. Mint couldn’t afford to lose money on this ubiquitous coin. Therefore the U.S. Mint started designed the Small Cent.

Another interesting fact is that the 1857 Flying Eagle Cent was the first US coin to use nickel. It was composed of 88% copper and 12% nickel.

So, if you are looking to fill a hole in your coin type collection, think about buying the 1857 Flying Eagle Cent.