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Posted before, PL rainbow toner, new shot through the airtite:

 

What I call PQ, some PL hints:

 

Dang. Even the off-center is Gem.

I get it, you want to be CladKing for Zlincolns. Pretty good start.

 

No want...I am! LOLOLOL

I'm just getting around to photographing my collection. As you know, a time consuming process. Not to mention the years and mega-hours of searching. I also credit our lost member Ben Peters. He and I had many deals, he hooked me up with coins I found impossible to locate ANYWHERE. Ben was a Knoxville dealer and ran the coin show there for decades....he may still today, I don't know. He was my hero for Memorial cents! I pray he is in good health.

 

Love the early zinc bubbles!

 

See, this is where a decent tethered setup like I preach about would be a real advantage. Your coins will use similar settings, and you can do two a minute with it.

 

You're missing one point....I AM A CHEAPSKATE! My old SD700IS serves me well enough for the internet for now and it's paid for.

 

It's a good thing since MOST of them are infected badly. PCGS seems to be quite forgiving with respect to bubbles. Most of the 67/68 level coins show them, some quite badly....but they have luster so PCGS bumps them.

I have a love/hate relationship with them, I've saved quite a few bubble-ridden coins for various reasons. However, for my main collection tastes, I seek upper-gem level coins, well struck with no bubbles, spots or other distractions.

 

Hey! Some of his Lincolns surprise me.

It's surprising enough to see spectacular Gems but then he also posts pictures of things I've never seen or never seen so nice. That PL '87 above never saw the inside of a mint set I wager and I never saw anything like that in BU rolls!

Mebbe he makes them in his basement?

 

I'm generally derisive of Moderns but you - among others - have taught me where and when to find genuine Condition Rarities which easily meet my most stringent standards for collectability. Really nice Zlincolns fit that criteria, and although I won't be collecting them - Wheaties have assimilated me - I'll absolutely be looking for them as they appear in my life.

 

Thanks. Most classic collectors just aren't used to having to wade through so much chaffe to find a little wheat.

 

The same could be said of Morgans.

 

Speaking of Lincolns, this just in from @carboni7e. Die cracks, chips, color I've no idea how to depict respectfully yet, and an object lesson in the problems with slabs. Don't believe everything you see (yet):



Bet your first thought, when looking at the reverse, was, "Hey! Look at those huge gouges below the C and on the N!" So was mine.

Never saw the gouges on the slab; I thought I missed something on the coin in the seller's pics (which were plenty good enough not to miss this). So I looked closer. They're tiny gouges on the slab, shadowed on the coin.

Here's proof, with a single light placed in no position to bring out any color at all (another lesson there):


Look where the gouges went....and what a difference in lighting does to the look of a coin.

 

@SuperDave - Great process of elimination! I was also thinking nice wood-grain!.. and what's the grade on that sucker?

 

You tell me.

And yeah, I was going to put it into the Woodie Thread until the shadow thing; I figured the audience would be larger here.

 

64

 

See? You didn't need me to tell you.

 

Let's see the slab.