1967 Lincoln Memorial Cent - SKH-1c-1967-12 Spiked Head

Description

Designated SKH-1c-1967-12, this twelfth cataloged spiked head for the 1967 Lincoln cent — like SKH-1c-1967-10 — does not carry a Cohen Index cross-reference, placing it among the spiked heads documented exclusively through the Cuds on Coins cataloging system. The gap between SKH-1c-1967-10 and SKH-1c-1967-12 (with SKH-1c-1967-11 cataloged separately as SKH-1C-1967-11 in a related entry) illustrates the non-linear nature of variety discovery: the sequential numbers represent the order in which varieties were cataloged, not a logical progression through die positions or failure types. The 1967 date holds a distinctive place in the Lincoln Memorial Cent series as the last year of the no-mint-mark era. When 1968 arrived, the Denver Mint began marking its cents with a D and San Francisco resumed proof production with an S mint mark, ending the three-year experiment that had been implemented to discourage speculative coin hoarding during the national coin shortage. Attributed by Cuds on Coins. Struck on a 3.11-gram, 19mm planchet of 95% copper and 5% zinc.

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