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20 November 2008

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Doubled-die ’69-S Lincoln cent in sale - Numismatic News

Leading the top offerings in an Oct. 4 sale to be conducted by Sonny Henry’s  Coin & Currency Auction in LaSalle, Ill., is a 1969-S doubled-die Lincoln cent graded MS-63 BN by the Numismatic Guaranty Corp.

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Lincoln Cent Set Features Classic Key Dates - NumisMaster

Generation after generation has come to the same basic conclusion that the Lincoln cent is a great collection. There is really no dispute that now approaching the century mark in terms of production when you look at a Lincoln cent collection you will find virtually everything you could ever want in a collection with the possible exception of the great rarity. There are key dates, semi-key dates and plenty of available dates as well.

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Lincoln cent set features classic key dates - Numismatic News

Generation after generation has come to the same basic conclusion that the Lincoln cent is a great collection. There is really no dispute that now approaching the century mark in terms of production when you look at a Lincoln cent collection you will find virtually everything you could ever want in a collection with the possible exception of the great rarity. There are key dates, semi-key dates and plenty of available dates as well.

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Vintner pays pretty penny for rare coin - Napa Valley Register

The old adage goes, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” For vintner Steven Contursi, a penny saved is more than $72,000 burned. The Napa Valley vineyard owner and California coin dealer’s boyhood quest for a rare find recently ended with the purchase of a 1943 bronze penny to the tune of $72,500.

Contursi, new owner of Little Creek Vineyard in the Coombsville area and president of Dana Point’s Rare Coin Wholesalers, bought the coveted coin from the family of its longtime owner.

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Previously Unaccounted 1943-S Bronze Cent Acquired by Rare Coin Wholesalers - Coin News

A previously unrecorded 1943-S Lincoln cent, erroneously struck on a bronze planchet and found in circulation by a teenaged collector over a half century ago, has been acquired by Rare Coin Wholesalers of Dana Point, California.

The discovery coin now is certified as AU-53 by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation.

“The coin was found in 1944 by Kenneth S. Wing Jr. of Long Beach, California who was assembling a set of Lincoln cents at the time,” said Steven L. Contursi, President of Rare Coin Wholesalers (www.RCW1.com).

Wing became a prominent Southern California architect who co-designed the Long Beach Arena in the late 1950s. He passed away in 1996.

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