Post your Lincolns!

According to Wikipedia, 304,725. That's not a whole lot less than 2023 and 2024 proofs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_cent_mintage_figures

 

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Thank you, found silver proof sets mintage on Google 161k sets, but quoted actual number of sets may be lower, and mabie they just sold them all before I decided I wanted one. Have to waite for official announcement.

 

Nice woody!!! You're working hard on that set, great job!

 

This arrived today, and boy is it hard to image.

 

Most of my Lincolns have at least some luster or toning, except for this guy.
I've had it for 8 years or so, and posted it back in posts #4281 and #4099.


I found one that I like more, even though it has a scratch.


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Now this is strange. I was putting the 1926-D into the album after photographing it (post #9206). I happened to look at the 1921-S and thought it looked better than its photo from almost 6 years ago (post #6697).

It has been sitting in an Intercept Shield album. This is advertised as having chemicals impregnated into the cardboard to prevent toning or corrosion. Could they actually reduce toning over time?

Before


Now

 

Really cold today so I thought I would take images of my Lincolns.

 

Now 1959-2011

 

2012 To ?

 

My Lincoln collection is all raw coins. I wanted to put together a small grading set of MS66 / MS67 so I could get a better feel for what my raw coins would grade. It comes in handy if I want to upgrade a particular coin so I know what grades are better and which I shouldn't bother with.

Unfortunately, this turned out better than my current coin. Now I have to decide whether to crack it out for the set or keep it as a grading reference!

Current 53-S


New 53-S


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A couple of more 1950 cents. I was having trouble finding a good strike that was a clean coin. Neither of these managed to displace the one I got in the previous post for $4.00.

First, a $5.00 coin that looks MS67 except for the spot on the lip.


And a PCGS MS66 RD that shows up in a Heritage auction 21 years ago, when someone spent $92 on it. I can't tell much from their photo, but it looks much the same as it does now. I gave $43, but even at that price it is definitely a "C" for the grade. Expand the picture to see the smudges and spots on both sides.

Price guide is $110, but I don't think I got a bargain even so.

 

I am still looking for a nice 1950, these are TOUGH coins. In fact, all the philly coins from 1950-1955 are harder than most think.

 

It's taken me 18 months to get this photographed! I upgraded from this, which has a lot of die scratches on the obverse and almost no steps on the back,


to this


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What program are you using?

 

I wrote my own program. It started with just a little Windows app to let me rename the photos easily. As time went on, I added the ability to see the photos, then align them and build a gif animation. Now it only takes a few minutes to go through the workflow. However, I had my camera setup torn down for a year, which slowed the process considerably.

This 1971-S was also shown many years ago in post #4489. I upgraded it at the same time as the 71-D.

This original coin


was replaced by this.



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