SKH-1c-2021-13 Spiked Head

Description

Value appreciation trends for documented Shield cent die varieties have tracked the broader growth of interest in modern coinage varieties, and SKH-1c-2021-13 exists in a market environment that has become more favorable to recent-date Lincoln cent collecting than would have been predicted a decade ago. Modern cents were long regarded as too recent and too common to attract serious numismatic attention. As the Shield cent design approached its fifteenth year in production, however, a generation of collectors who grew up with the design began treating it with the same scholarly interest previously reserved for older Lincoln types. Documented spiked heads, carrying formal catalog numbers from Cuds on Coins, have benefited from this shift in perspective. Varieties with confirmed catalog attribution from relatively recent dates now command premiums that reflect both their genuine scarcity as found and attributed pieces and the growing collector demand for complete, documented sets within this modern series.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Thomas DeHart
• Cross reference: none. 06/22/2023.
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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