1987 Lincoln Cent Crazy Looking Thing

Cool Rick. I have one I bought over a year ago and although my stand is much different it is still a POS. I either lean one corner of the microscope on the surface near the coin or use a little riser I made.

 

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I have a nice dino-lite stand and the thing I like about this scope it only has 4 LCD lights ....

 

I made this Rube Goldberg contraption for mine. A cheap "Harbor Freight" plastic loupe with the lens removed fits into my 'scope. I have the water bottle cap with the center punched out for a filter. I wrapped a bit of translucent scotch tape around the "filter" to cut a little more light. I put the coin inside the "chamber" and outside light has little effect.

 

Neat set-up there Tommy, but it look like it will only work on small coins, or do you have something for larger coins too ...

 

Here's the kind of images I can get on large coins ( Ike Dollar ) ....

Image is un-cropped too ..

 

I only do Lincoln Cents. I take all my pics with it

 

The reverse seems bulged toward the 12:00 position. Perhaps there was something in between the vise and the coin when it was tightened that squeezed away the reverse design and moved the metal North.

 

getting back to the vise theory. There is the same pattern of parallel lines on the rev face, but weaker. looks like the coin was put back into vise another time with the rev side facing the vise's gripping side. The coin now had the obv on the gripping side, or vice versa.

 

One day away from the big coin show, Tommy ....

 

Are you going to bring the 1999 doubled ear with you to the show?

 

Both of thoses were from hits, but here's a good one and a nice early die state ( EDS ) too .

One on Coppercoins is MDS .
http://www.coppercoins.com/lincoln/diestate.php?date=1982&die_id=1982p1do003&die_state=mds


I'll finish the rest of the images Tommy, after the show .
It also weights 2.5 grams ....

 

Here's a better image, not so overexposed

 

I am 100% OK with you putting me on ignore. But what was it, you didn't notice the silly emoticon or didn't understand it?

 

Well, just so we are clear. I never ran away nor deleted any posts. Any more misinterpretations you care to spew?