Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 96

February 12-15 2017 Pre-Long Beach Auction

Lincoln Cents

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 747		1909-S. VDB. PCGS graded MS-64 Red & Brown. Lots of mint red (PCGS # 2427) Estimate Value $1,500 - 1,600 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,763
Lot 748		1909-S. VDB. NGC graded MS-64 Red & Brown. Partial mint red on both sides. Popular key date. Estimate Value $1,250 - 1,300 View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,586
Lot 749		1909-S. VDB. PCGS graded AU-55 Brown. A key date (PCGS # 2426) Estimate Value $1,000 - 1,050 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,116
Lot 750		1909-S. PCGS graded MS-65 Red. Lots of mint red (PCGS # 2434) Estimate Value $950 - 1,000 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,087
Lot 751		1909-S. Sharpness of Fine, Cleaned. Estimate Value $40 - 45 View details and enlarged photos	Realized $72
Lot 752		1911. NGC graded Proof 66 Red & Brown. CAC. Boldly struck. Only 1,725 struck. Pop 16; 1 finer in 67. Estimate Value $2,000 - 2,200 View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,291
Lot 753		1921-S. PCGS graded MS-64 Red & Brown PQ. CAC. The nicest 1921-S cent we have ever seen in Red Brown. Wonderful toning on both sides. Boldly struck and very choice. Pop 282; 44 finer, 1 in 64+, 43 in 65. (PCGS # 2535) Estimate Value $1,000 - UP View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 754		1936. Brilliant. PCGS graded Proof 65 Red. A fully red example. Only 5,569 struck (PCGS # 3335) Estimate Value $1,800 - 1,900 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,586
Lot 755		1937. PCGS graded Proof 66 Red PQ. CAC. A wonderful gem proof. Only 9,320 struck. Pop 229; 29 finer, 7 in 66+, 22 in 67. (PCGS # 3338) Estimate Value $600 - 650 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $705
Lot 756		1943. Copper. PCGS graded EF-45 PQ. CAC. Only 10 to 15 examples estimated to have survived according to PCGS Pop Report, if indeed that many. This extraordinary mint error is so famous because of course in 1943, all cents were supposed to be made of a low carbon steel with a thin zinc plating, making them appear white rather than red or brown as seen in previous years on bronze cents. As is typically the case in large manufacturing facilities like the Philadelphia Mint, planchets are transported in large steel tubs or tote bins which have the ability to be poured into the planchet hopper for the coining press. As these tote bins age the seams along the walls and base crack and separate allowing a few planchets to become lodged in the tote bins, and this scenario most likely accounts for the 10 or examples of bronze planchets (from 1942) that slipped into the production of 1943 steel cents. A handful of bronze 1942 style planchets must have been stuck in a cracked seam of a particular tote bin and when new steepl planchets were poured into the bin, these bronze blank planchets became dislodged and fell into the planchet hopper with all the other steel planchets, which were then struck by the 1943 cent dies and entered circulation. This visual error was first reported by a youth named Don Lutes, Jr., then aged 16 having received the odd coin in change at his school cafeteria. Other reports followed through the decades of similar 1943 bronze cents but no examples were publically auctioned until 1974. Countless forgeries have been produced by copper plating steel 1943 cents, but these forgeries remain magnetic and are fairly easy to authenticate. For generations of collectors, the hunt for a 1943 copper cent remained as one of the most frustrating pursuits as these were so rare that few collectors have even seen, let alone discovered or owned, this historic mint error. Pop 1; 6 finer at PCGS. (PCGS # 82709) Estimate Value $100,000 - 125,000 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $193,875
Lot 757		1962. PCGS graded MS-67 Red. Pop 28; 7 finer in 67+. (PCGS # 2878) Estimate Value $400 - 450 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 758		1971 Double Die Obverse. ANACS graded MS-63 Brown. Estimate Value $250 - 300 View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 759		1971. Doubled die obverse, FS-101 (031). PCGS graded MS-66 Red. Full blazing mint red throughout. This is a rare doubled die that has not been found in large numbers despite considerable searching by collectors. The doubling is most evident on LIBERTY and the Motto. Tied with a top notch group as one of the finest seen by PCGS of this variety. Pop 6; none finer at PCGS. (PCGS # 38009) Estimate Value $7,000 - 7,500 View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 760		A group of NGC graded Lincoln Cents. NGC graded all MS-67 Red. Dates including: 1936-D (2); 1940 (1); 1941-S (1); 1949-S (2); 1952-S (2); 1954-S (1). All housed in NGC Old Style Holders. Lot of 9 coins. Estimate Value $1,500 - UP View details	Realized $1,116