powermad5000

I'll edit the top post and add a note. I will just say if you read down the thread and cannot figure out this post turned into nothing but humor and sarcasm, you need to go back under the rock you came out from and never come back out.

Absolutely cannot tell anything from those pics. Please provide properly oriented, fully cropped, clear photos of both sides of the coin, and reduce the harsh lighting. If you took these with the flash on, please turn it off.

It might help to remove anyone's skin oils from handling but it won't really improve the appearance much.

That is the cartwheel luster on it.

The response by FM was excellent.

Hello and welcome to the forum! With a mintage of 1,580,884,000 for the 1960 D Large Date Lincoln Memorial Cent, as already stated by Sandon, you would need to have specimens in full gem BU RD (red color and minimum MS 67), and the way these are stored, I could just about guarantee, the best grade possible on the best one would be MS 65 RD which at current is listed as $15 in the price guide. That figure, however is for one that is numerically graded by a major TPG, meaning the original submitter already lost money having it graded. In raw format as your coins are, a dealer most likely would not even wish to purchase these, especially by the way they are stored. You might be able to sell them for a couple dollars each on eBay for the ones that look better in the group of 4 but I would expect it would take probably a couple years to sell them. Too many of these were stored in rolls and hoarded when they were first minted. I would not have any of them professionally graded. Any of them make nice album fillers and I would at a minimum obtain some 2x2 cardboard flips and store them individually. You can get these flips at Wizard Coin Supply online or any Hobby Lobby store. Do these coins a favor and get them away from being next to those staples and each other. You can staple the cardboard flips, but keep the staples away from the coin and more toward the outer edges of the flip. When those staples rust the way they are currently shown, it will surely affect the coins the way they are now.

Her left foot looks like it decayed from leprosy and her right foot looks like it has a boot on it, not a sandal.

I think I see on the reverse it is one of those mule cents too.

I would think I will need to perform some basic conservation to make mine somewhat better, but as long as a merchant will accept such a coin, then yes. Technically, one can still make out it is a Lincoln cent, so therefore it is still legal tender. Well beyond dumpster fire and into statewide wildfire territory, but still a cent.

This price guide projected value is why I said this coin needs to be TPG graded. Slight difference in grade can be thousands of dollars of difference in this case.

Oh, man. So sorry to see this is what happened and how much you paid for this. I think we all have our "one" that gets us and hopefully this is the one and only for you. Knowledge is as valuable as money. If you knew then what you know now...I'll raise my glass to a better collecting future for you!

Now that I am thinking about it, I think this is a mint error for struck through.

On top of that, I think it has doubled dies.

I don't know, I think I have a new undiscovered variety on mine.