1972D Penny

[Purplegirl61]

Hi. Found this Penny in beautiful condition. I read somewhere some are valuable just being in a great shape (?). This is a really pretty coin not even banged up What do you’ll think ?

[MintErrors]

It looks in decent shape, but in my personal opinion, not good enough to fetch a high premium. CONECA frowns on assisting in grading coins on this forum so I cannot assist with that right now.

so you can better understand what I am about to say in the paragraph below, I am going to point you to two places on the PCGS.com website.

Let's concentrate on a few years in this example.... Lets look at coins from the years 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964

The first link is about pricing for all of the PCGS slabbed Lincoln Cents.
https://www.pcgs.com/prices/detail/l...47/most-active

The higher the grade, the higher the price. That brings us to the second link.

The second link shows you the population numbers for each type of Lincoln Cent.
https://www.pcgs.com/pop/detail/linc...n-1959-date/47

In order to see all of the dates for the coins on that PCGS website, go to the last dated listing on the page. To the bottom left near the last listing is pull down arrow and the word "SHOW", pull the arrow down and make it say ALL, instead of 100.

Another trick is, if you look at a year and all the way to the LEFT of that year will be a PCGS random number. Just before the number to the left, if there is a PLUS (+) sign, you can click on that. That is where PCGS likes to hide all the coin varieties like doubled dies and re-punched mint marks.

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Most modern date (say1959 to now) coins for the most part have to be at a very high grade in order to bring in a premium. There are a few years that the population numbers for the higher grades are just not there, and some of the coins in the mid grade range can fetch a decent premium.

[Purplegirl61]

Oh I am sorry, I was trying to avoid that concern. I felt it was odd I found it in change. I won’t do that again. Thank you for the heads up and the other info, as always,

[MintErrors]

It's OK, no worries. You didn't ask for a grade and I didn't give one.

I will add that over the years I did buy quite a few BU Lincoln Cent bags experimenting with which ones might have the better looking coins and possible varieties as well. The 1959D and 1960D bags gave the most varieties. Then came 1961-D. As far as the best looking over all, I would have to say 1959. The least appealing was the 1963D bags. Those never produced many good looking coins. They had two Doubled dies in that year and I found a decent amount of them. But as you can probably guess all were in average uncirculated condition.