Post your Lincolns!

Hi, just ripped open a roll of 1961D I bought from Sports Phanatic. I know I need a better Camera. Happy Father's day to all you Dad's out there!

 

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You have the greatest first name!

 

This thread needs a bump. Courtesy of our own @phankins11:

 

This one fascinates me. The striations aren't just woodgrain; they're in the planchet:





There's another; I'm gonna bump the "Got Wood" thread with that one.

 

Both Lincoln's are beautiful!!

 

Great pictures! They look good enough to eat!

 

Here my lincoln civil war campaign token. I love the lincoln cent series but thought i would show something a little different.

 

Don't thank me, thank Schneider-Kreuznach. It's kinda hard to screw up a shot with a lens like that.

 

Here is an entirely different kind of 1928. I tried to match the color as closely as possible to the coin in hand.

 

Funny you should say that...I just read this a few days ago and it seems to me it could extend to coins...especially the nice chocolatey ones.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/morganshan...te-out-of-your?utm_term=.vuY7r073L#.lw2JQkJqr

 

Shamelessly stolen and paraphrased from the sig of a poster at another forum: "Yeah, I'd collect the chocolate ones too if it weren't for that one problem...."

 

@SuperDave, I see some similarities between this 1924 and the 1926 you posted.

On the reverse image, the grain goes in roughly the same direction. The irregularities go into the rims and through the wheat ears.

I could imagine this being called "harshly cleaned", but it still has cartwheel luster even if it looks like a wire brush hit it. Would I be correct to assume that this is all due to the planchet, and is not post-mint? (Edit: Added obverse image.)

 

Yes, yours appears similar. I think it's just an odd manifestation of delamination. Here's a 100% crop of the image above; it gives a better idea of what sure looks like the surface layer of the coin barely holding on.

 

I'm thinking of downgrading the 65BN in my registry set <gasp> to this beautiful blue/green 64BN.



Edit: The other 1918 for reference.

 

Your "downgrade" is clearly the superior coin, and not deserving of the lower grade from any technical standpoint. The 65 has questionable spots, eye-catching horizontal marks in front of the chin and on the forehead, and a strong ding in the precise center of the reverse on the left leg of the N. It's well-struck and a very nice coin, but I wouldn't do "65" for it if it were my money being spent.

The toner is equally well-struck on the obverse if a bit weaker on the reverse, has no marks noted on the primary first glance (under the chin and on the O in ONE need a second look to find), and fits your collection better. No-brainer, and I feel the grades ought to be reversed.

 

The downfall of TPG's putting so much weight on luster.

 

Preach it, brother.

 

What a find!!! Appears to mint state, AU58 at worst. CONGRATS!

 

Outstanding, and worthy of the grade. What a lucky survivor.