Looking for the 1960 Large & Small Date Lincoln Cents
May 20, 2026
The Lincoln Memorial Cent series, which ran from 1959 through 2008, remains one of the most widely collected areas of the U.S. coin catalog. This is in large part thanks to the hundreds of billions of “pennies” emitted from the United States Mint during that coin’s run and the fact that, despite the discontinuation of circulating one cent coins in 2025, billions upon billions remain in circulation.
And even as more valuable pre-1982 bronze Lincoln Cents disappear from circulation much faster than the later zinc-based cents, there are still enough 1960 Lincoln Cents in the wild that plenty of collectors are unsure how to differentiate more common large dates from the scarcer, more valuable small dates.
From PCGS