Thanks Jello- I assume your referring to the 31 D? How bout the 1913? Where are all the other Lincoln people? RLM, Jack, Thad, Phoneix, Leeg- come out and play, where ever you are? Don't let this cool post die! This is my favorite post- maybe it could get to 10,000?
Au55 May uncle found in 1944 the week he was home on leave form the Army. he carry it back as a lucky charm. As I said earlier I will be going north soon and plan on getting all my family's coins. and will post the Ngc holder.
Went to Barnes & Noble to pick up a 2010 63rd Edition Red Book this morning and received this 1972 cent in my change. Apologies for the VERY soft focus, I'm having trouble shooting what I'm seeing on this coin. I first spotted the heavy rim on the obverse and under the 8x and 26x lupe I see the date doubled, again focus and lighting are hindering me on sharing this precisely. Looks to me that the date underneath is more to the top and right. Hope it will do. It's very slight. Any thoughts? :bow:
Boss, both your coins look to be AU IMO. It's tough to judge these without seeing in hand because some obverse die wear can easily be mistaken for wear. You have to look closely at the secondary wear indicators, for me that's the lapel/shoulder and wheat heads and grains.....then the overall hits. Also, your coins are very dark, much darker than I usually see in an UNC coin.
I've worked on shooting the date again since my earlier post. This time using a 30x microscope, shooting through the peephole. So what I'm seeing is primarily located in the date of the coin, looks doubled to me. Is this the case? It's just a worn circulated coin, but I have read in the books that '72 Lincolns with DD (in MS grades) can pull in the Benjamins. So I got excited when I saw this one. I appreciate your feedback.:kewl: