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Can you get a better shot of the 36 S Mint mark? There's no listed rpm but from your images something is going on .thanks

 

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Sure thing Paddy & thanks for looking! This one might be a little bit better....? I think the 1926 has a rather anomalous blob between the "1" and "9" as well, but didn't pay it much attention.

Edit...that might be the same shot...if so it is my best MM photo of the batch. I'll try for a better one tomorrow.

 

That's going to be an AMAZING set! The highest grade I've had so far was 66-FB....never even dipped into the 67 or 68 territory. Real stunners!

 

Talking about RPM's reminded me of one I picked up a few months ago. Bought it as a standard 1953-S, but the seller wrote a long letter saying he might have missed something as it looked almost like the 1953-S/S. I don't think it is, but...? Old NGC MS-65 holder.

 

As another member described a purchase the other day, I bought this "just because." A first-year 1986 American Silver Eagle proof. She'll stay in her original packaging and won't be sent off for grading.

 

What appears to be spots to the left of the date are some sort of flaw in the picture and not on the coin.

 

Black

 

Looks like David Lawrence photographs. BEWARE the coin will look completely different in hand, probably MUCH less color than there appears to be.

 

Nice coin. Just looks like die wear to me

 

A couple 10 cent coins.

 

1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent (PCGS MS64BN). Bought this from one of the premier Toned Lincoln Collectors around (Jeff aka CopperColor). The 1909-S and 1909-S VDB tend to be a bit on the homely side for some unknown reason. This particuar coin is on the more eye appealing side.

This is still the lowest mintage regular issue Circulation Strike Lincoln at 484,000. I think around 17,000 have been slabbed by PCGS and around 10,000 by NGC. A surprisingly low number given that most experts believe the survival rate is high for this issue -- I would have thought the slab pops would have been higher for this key date.

 

1919-S Lincoln Cent (PCGS MS64BN). Another tougher date/mint combination for color and eye appeal. Funny this was minted exactly a decade after the above key.

 

1929-S Lincoln Cent (PCGS MS64BN). On a roll with the xxx9-S!!! Another MS64BN and with color and eye appeal.

 

1939-S Lincoln Cent (PCGS MS64RB). Can't help myself ... Next decade example! Still a 64 but I broke the string of BN's with a RB.

 

1949-S Lincoln Cent (PCGS MS66RB). So ends my impromtu series on S mint wheaties with dates ending in 9.

 

Looks like purple lint from the plush case.

 

Can't stop drooling

 

PCGS Coinfacts estimate that 50000 examples of this date survive. Kinda hard to believe only about 54% are slabbed for an issue so widely faked.

Drooling at all of them though.

 

Probably less even than the raw numbers indicate. I'd imagine that on such a widely collected key date where a jump in technical grade can mean a significant change in price, many of the higher grade coins have been cracked out and swapped around between the TPGs over the years.

 

The number of "sets" that can be assembled is only limited by the imagination.