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I picked this 1926 up from eBay for $17.95.

 

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1926-D from eBay for $30. It’s one of the very few cents without any red.

These are another issue where good strikes are hard to come by. As you can see, E PLURIBUS UNUM is mushy although everything else is pretty sharp.

 

This is the only Lincoln cent I kept after selling two complete PCGS Registry Sets of toned Lincoln, Wheat cents.

 

Nice choice to keep it.
I have several 1955 Lincoln's and when I look at them w/o glasses I see that they're all Doubled Die Errors.

 

With that late die stage I bet the luster is off the charts.

 

Some Whittman folder toning.

 

Found another a while back.

Unless this is an eraser job. I lean towards eraser on this one.

 

I Found this- Weighs 2.5 grams and is 2.7 mm thick. The metal is not magnetic, but it does not look like zinc, it most likely looks like aluminum.

 

It's a regular copper plated zinc cent. Zinc has a grey color. If it was aluminum it would weigh about 1 gram.

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This 1969 D mint Mark coin I found yesterday. The size of dime. Bronze.

 

Someone clipped or ground off the edge of that coin.

 

If you look to the edge you can see the rolled edges that usually happened when stamping

 

When you say "rolled edges" are you referring to the rim?

Can you take a picture of it next to a dime?

I'll explain the minting process to you in a while so you can understand why it isn't an error.

 

Rolled edges do not happen during the striking process. A rolled edge is damage. See that the metal has been folded over the devices, that is PMD and nothing else.

 

I looked for a while for a 1926-S. I found this online for $90. The well-known vendor said “From the Bargain Bin”. I snapped it up immediately.

Here is the vendor’s photo. It was obvious this was unusually well struck.



It turned out that the coin also had this iridescent toning.

 

Somehow my LCS came into possession of a roll of 1927’s. I had picked out the two that I thought were the best. I sorta feel bad that I only took one of the two, but that’s all I needed. I hope the person who got the other one enjoys it.

$10 for this one.

 

In 1927 the Denver mint turned away from the dismal strikes that dominated the earlier 1920’s. Although I did pay $65 for this about 7 or 8 years ago.

 

The 1927-S did not have good strikes or good dies for the most part. The NGC Coin Explorer had to use this coin as its plate coin, in spite of two corrosion spots and an amazing lack of detail.

The bust is covered with small grooves from the planchet. Perhaps the striking pressure was reduced to preserve the dies, so the metal was not forced fully up into the die and could not eradicate the planchet dings and dents. It has to be tough to tell if these are worn or not.



My example cost $108.50 from an eBay seller. I was curious when I saw they only have a 33% positive feedback score. Apparently this seller is semi-retired now. The score was from having only 3 feedbacks in the last year. Nonetheless, I was happy with this purchase.

 

I feel this (former) ANACS MS 65 RB was a good deal at $30. I love the fiery intensity of the color in all the crevices.

 

I like this 1928-D that I found for $40 on eBay. I got a number of coins from this same buyer, and I pretty much liked all of them.

I like the subtle glow it has, and even if there isn’t much red, the brown is a very warm color. I even like the planchet flaw on the reverse that seems like a big pit.

NGC comments that “fully struck examples are still the exception. Most will show light to moderate erosion of the dies.” I am very pleased this is one of the exceptions.