34 Red BU Lincoln cent

Yesterday seems to be the day of my undoing, buying coins I don't normally touch.

I picked up two Lincoln cents, a coin I truly dislike, but this 34 s red, and that was interesting. But when I brought it home and photographed it, the fingerprint more shows up in the photographs, on the face of it than it did in the hand

 

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nice fingerprint.
I wonder if it is FDR's?

 

Might be. Would that give it more value? It kind of annoyes me because it must have been recent otherwise it wouldn't be red.

Ruben

 

Would it give it more value - no way!

I have no idea why you say recent. A Lincoln is defined as red if it is over 95% red - with or without fingerprints.

 

Nice Wheat and its RED too!!!!!!!!!

 

the prints usually cause ut to turn brown over time.

Ruben

 

what's its value?

 

he's saying if it was FDR's fingerprint.

 

It looks like the pinky finger to me. ANA standards are, little finger, little value.

 

so if I paid $200 that would be too much

 

err

 

i also picked up a red 34 lincoln for 12.95

 

Ruben, if you what someone to grade your 34, you are going to have to post a pic with the color turned down so it does not blown my monitor's mind. When they look like Jon's, it can be graded.

Jon, 64/65 RB. Nice coin.

 

absolutley! wayyy too much.
and Jon that a very nice cent! I say 64 RD

 

I don't know. That is the color of the coin. Here is the raw photo, no flash

http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/11022008/dsc05377.jpg

 

The same picture with a more of the flip showing does not make it any easier to see. In fact it makes it harder to see.

 

very nice cent jon... I agree with the 64 attribution... maybe 65.

What did you use for your background in those images?

EDIT: MrBrklyn - try taking the coin out of the flip, placing it on a white sheet of paper, and get a good light source (I try to take mine on nice sunny days with natural sunlight, but I also have 2 - 40 watt spot halogens - $5 each - and a 100 watt GE nautral color bulb that I use when it's night or raining.)

 

lol i use a granite enameled metal coffee cup

 

I'm going to have to get me one of those then... That's one of the best backgrounds I've seen to help show a Lincoln.

 

Jon67, right on the cusp, 64/65. Might even market-grade better, I wouldn't be surprised in the least. JMO. Nice coin.