GBroke where are you finding all these nice marks, I've been searching everywhere and can't find a one! Not even one!
well a guy mentioned some in this thread. http://www.cointalk.com/t210382/ you could try contacting him
I use an iPhone for my personal coin photos, but those 1937 photos came from the seller. I am still waiting for this coin to arrive in the mail I love PCGS TrueViews the best though, out of the slab is the best way to photograph a colorfully toned coin.
I've always liked the Marks; they always seem to tone up nicely. Sold off my foreign collection a few years ago and had quite a few of them.
I walked into the first coin store I ever visited and picked this up after browsing around for a while. I really like the design and series and with a mintage of only 396,000 coins (the second lowest of the series) I got it for $30.
1927-S SLQs are one of those coins I consider "sleepers" - typically undervalued for that low mintage.
Just in for grading. Picked up raw on eBay about a month ago. I will post results in about 2 weeks, hopefully!! I have 7 other raw Lincoln's along for company.
This one was a bear to find. It is medal #52 of the 60 Heraldic Art Medal designs. Anything in the series from about #40 and after is relatively difficult to find -- many are thought to have been melted down, and the mintages were only around 6,000 to begin with. Of the 60 medals, 13 have designs including a horse. This medal puts me up to 12 of the 13 -- in the home stretch!
I really like these Brandon. I think you've come across something that will make for a fun challenge.
Yea its a real beauty but the only thing not beautiful was the offer i had to make to leverage it out of a fellow eBay members hands. I watched it for some time listed on eBay in my summary, no one made him an offer for a month or so, so i made an offer considerably less than the BIN and it was excepted. It is my first secure plus holder.....
I picked up this really neat Lincoln medal recently from a fellow coin club member. You can see the size of it as I have the edge of a cent in the lower corner of the photo. I thought the medal was silver, but based on some wear at the top of the flag on the reverse, it appears to be a bronze medal that was silver plated. In any event, it's a really cool looking medal with a younger image of Lincoln on the obverse and a nude man (Lincoln again?) and topless woman carrying the flag as they fly over the Capitol. Not sure when it was made but it was likely done for either the 1909 centennial of Lincoln's birth or perhaps for one of the Grand Army of the Republic reunions around that time... perhaps 1915 for the 50th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. I have been able to find out the medal is referenced as King-783. Anyone else know anything about this medal??
It certainly looks familiar I couldn't find the scratch even when I had it in hand. Here is older shot of it I found. Maybe across the ear? Hard to tell if it's on the plastic.