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Review of ‘A Guide Book of Lincoln Cents,’ 3rd Edition

Here’s yet another book that recently tumbled from Q. David Bowers’ pen: A Guide Book of Lincoln Cents, 3rd Edition. I don’t know about you, but I started collecting Lincoln cents almost as soon as I became a coin collector, and that was more than 65 years ago!

Of course, I don’t need to tell you that 65 years ago there was still lots of “good stuff ” in circulation. Sitting on my bed looking through the roll of pennies my father brought home every night, I found such winners as a 1909-S cent (but no

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