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Found my first State Penny

Postby beauanderos » Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:58 pm

I've seen others post of these, so I suppose they aren't that uncommon... but it's a first for me. Found Illinois. Took me sorting about five million to find this first one. Yay!
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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby bman » Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:05 am

one down....only forty-nine to go! :mrgreen:
it is fitting that you found Illinois first, after all it is the "land of Lincoln"!
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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby No82s » Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:17 am

Sorry, I want to but I can't. Where's that Super pick thread?
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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby TheJonasCollegeFund » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:00 am

beauanderos wrote:I've seen others post of these, so I suppose they aren't that uncommon... but it's a first for me. Found Illinois. Took me sorting about five million to find this first one. Yay!

I've hit a bit of a cold spell on these, too. I was finding about 1 every two weeks. I haven't found one in over 6 months or better. I thing the last one I found was South Carolina.
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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby Roadrunner » Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:55 pm

I've got three of them with the most recent one found only two weeks ago. Before that it had been months and months.
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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby Larkin » Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:57 pm

Questions:

1. What year(s) were these produced?
2. Anyone have a pic to post?
3. Value any higher than .01 cent?

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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby styropyro » Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:22 pm

I just found one today, New Hampshire. I've only found two or three total.
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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby Tourney64 » Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:44 pm

I've yet to find any state cents. I've found 3 Lincoln - Kennedy cents.
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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby beauanderos » Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:55 pm

Tourney64 wrote:I've yet to find any state cents. I've found 3 Lincoln - Kennedy cents.

Never even heard of a Lincoln-Kennedy cent. What do they look like?
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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby aloneibreak » Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:00 pm

@ larkin

most of the ones ive found have been dated 1976

heres the thread with some pics of the states and the linc-kenn

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2512&p=22277&hilit=found+while+sorting#p22277
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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby Tourney64 » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:53 pm

Lincoln Penny, with Kennedy facing Lincoln on the right side above the date. There was a long comparison of what Lincoln and Kennedy had in common, that the penny was glued to and sold.
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Re: Found my first State Penny

Postby Sheba » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:47 pm

Don't find the 'counterstamped' Lincolns very often (i.e.-Kennedy, US states, or some other marking), but just today I ran across a 1974 Lincoln with "SD" and the outline of the state stamped into it.

Rather find a 1914 D, though :lol:

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