Citations:Zincoln

English citations of Zincoln

Noun: "(numismatic slang) a Lincoln cent produced after 1982, made from copper-plated zinc rather than its earlier composition of 95% copper"

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• 2000 September 29, Fred A. Murphy, “O.K. Who is interested in a one of a kind 1974 Aluminum Lincoln penny ????”, in rec.collecting.coins‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-04:

  I'm not going to outbid everyone else, potentially including someone who knows nothing about errors, for a coin I am 99.99% certain is nothing more than a common Zincoln that's been fire damaged, especially since I has seen fire damaged Zincolns before. Nor would I add insult to injury by using my money to have is sent back in a body bag as a damaged coin.

• 2003 January 24, Fred Shecter, “A different kind of swap”, in rec.collecting.coins‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-03:

  2003 could be the last year for the Zincoln.......

• 2004 February 28, Lyntoy1, “A different kind of swap”, in rec.collecting.coins‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-04:

  Now here is the scoop. If you have a US coin you would like to swap, please post a detailed description. It can be ANYTHING! The first five I see posted from five different people (if there is that much interest) will be put up for a vote, and I will trade for the winning coin. I don't care if it is a '97 Zincoln, an '07 Saint or a '93 Chain, copper, silver or gold.

• 2006 August 14, Amistad, “Triple play”, in rec.collecting.coins‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-04:

  Not infrequently, one of us will spot a Zincoln lying on the sidewalk or street, and pick it up. Today, I spotted a dime and scooped it up. Later she found a Zincoln, and ere we had traveled much further, I snagged a Jefferson. To which I feel compelled to cry in a voice both loud and long -- "Hey! This is fun!" :-)

• 2007 February 3, Sibirskmoneta, “A Machine That Sorts Zincolns from Bronze Cents?”, in rec.collecting.coins‎^[5] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-04:

  http://www.ryedalecoin.com/
  It may well work, and the price is coming down, it was $799 the first time I saw it. But how would I find the S-Mints and the Wheats and the German 2?¢ coins? Now if it sorted those out then we might be talking:)

• 2011 March 17, Beanie, “Copper Lincolns being horded?”, in rec.collecting.coins‎^[6] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-04:

  I harvest pre-Zincolns from those pennies I get in change and find the ratio of Zincolns to Lincolns to be about 20 to 1 based on casual observation.

• 2022 February 3, ottilieblack, “Is the mint going to stop making pennies in 2023?”, in Reddit‎^[7], coins, archived from the original on 2022-12-04:

  I wish.
  The Zincoln is a terrible coin. Poor metal content that doesn't stand up to wear (I have 1700 year old debased Roman coins in better condition than pennies that are just a few years old in circulation). Bad reverse design. Tiny buying power.
  It's more of an annoyance than a coin.