SKH-1c-2010-06 Spiked Head

Description

Documented over a decade after the 2010 Lincoln Shield cent was struck, SKH-1c-2010-06 demonstrates that the variety-collecting community's attention to this series has remained active well into the Shield cent's second decade of production. Ongoing cataloging by Cuds on Coins has extended to include spiked head varieties discovered years after minting, building a progressively more complete record of how the 2010 Philadelphia dies aged in service. The absence of a cross-reference to PCGS or NGC is typical for spiked head varieties, which grading services have historically not attributed in the same way they attribute doubled dies; community catalogs therefore provide the essential reference infrastructure for attribution. Collectors who find 2010 cents with spikes projecting from the Lincoln portrait should compare against all documented 2010 entries in the Cuds on Coins SKH catalog; correct attribution — distinguishing this die's fracture from others documented for the same year — matters for proper identification and any subsequent sale or display as a named variety.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Matthew Vallee
• Cross reference: none. 08/01/2023.
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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