Talk:Wheat cent

Not first US coin to depict a real person

That would be the 1893 Columbian Expo quarter, which depicted Queen Isabella and Columbus. I'm also fairly certain that Longacre's Indian Head cent design was his daughter wearing a headdress. (I think I read this somewhere, although I'm certainly willing to let that one slide as an "idealised" representation of a real person.)--chris.lawson 02:29, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

expensive v.s. inexpensive

While with a mintage of almost 28 million the 1909 Philadelphia mint VDB cent is quite _________, even poor quality examples of the 1909-S VDB coin bring hundreds of dollars and a high grade mint condition example can sell for $6000 to $12000 or more.

When I read this sentence, I interpret this as: Even though the quantity of the 1909 Philadelphia VDB cent is huge, as high as 28 million, it is quite expsnsive, so expensive that even poor quality examples can worth hundreds of $. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 09:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Note that the first part of the sentence -- the dependent clause -- is discussing the P-mint cent, and the independent clause (the main body of the sentence, which is admittedly pretty confusingly written) is discussing the S-mint cent, a considerably rarer and much more expensive coin.--chris.lawson 16:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah, didn't see "Philadelphia" and "S". I will confirm the mintage number with my book and perhaps change "S" to "San Francisco" so that other are less likely to make my mistake. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 21:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

If you don't get to the rewrite before tomorrow, I might do it. That sentence is pretty bad.--chris.lawson 21:30, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Please do, by all means. Don't wait for me. One of the spirits of Wiki is being quick. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 22:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Why was the "VDB" controversial?

It's been commonplace for thousands of years for the designer of a coin to put his initials (or in some cases, his full name!) on it. And the Saint-Gaudens double eagle, introduced just 2 years earlier, had Saint-Gaudens' initials prominently displayed on the obverse. 75.76.213.106 (talk) 16:37, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge

Would anyone be opposed to redirecting this page to Lincoln cent? That article should soon be featured and this one is completely redundant. Reywas92^Talk 02:16, 27 November 2010 (UTC)