1972 Lincoln Memorial Cent - SKH-1c-1972-14 Spiked Head

Description

The fourteenth spiked head variety attributed for the 1972 Philadelphia Lincoln Memorial cent, SKH-1c-1972-14 was documented by the Cuds on Coins team on October 14, 2020. No cross-references have been established. This attribution came approximately four months after the thirteenth entry, maintaining the pace of roughly one to two new discoveries per year that characterized the later expansion of the 1972-P spiked head catalog. The identification of each new variety requires careful comparison against all previously documented entries: the attribution team must confirm that the submitted specimen's spike geometry — its origin point on the portrait, angle of projection, length, width, and curvature — differs sufficiently from all thirteen prior entries to represent a genuinely different die rather than a die-state variant of an already-cataloged one. SKH-1c-1972-14 passed this differentiation threshold, confirming it as a product of a fourteenth distinct obverse die that developed the characteristic fatigue crack at Lincoln's portrait apex during its service at the Philadelphia Mint in 1972.

Cross References

• Cross reference: none. 10/14/2020.

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