SKH-1c-2019-08 Spiked Head

Description

Online forums and digital communities have been instrumental in accelerating the discovery and documentation of spiked heads, and SKH-1c-2019-08 reflects the fruit of that networked effort. Before the internet era, a collector who found a spike projecting from Lincoln's head on a 2019 cent would have had limited avenues for verification: a local coin club meeting, a dealer consultation, or a published reference guide that might have no entry for the piece at all. Today, that same collector can post high-resolution photographs to a dedicated forum within minutes and receive confirmation or discussion from dozens of experienced variety specialists. The Cuds on Coins platform that formally cataloged this variety operates as a repository for exactly this community-driven discovery process. Each new SKH entry—including this 2019 (P) listing—represents a successful handoff from community observation to formal catalog recognition, a workflow that the internet made both faster and more reliable.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Amy Antone
• Cross reference: none. 03/06/2020.
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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