Whooaaa.....thats sweet. I dunno....Ill guess EF-40...too bad about the nics (bag marks?) on his torso, and on the reverse..If you didn't say the wheat sheafs were pristine I would have said an VF.
i see way to much detail to give it a vf-20. I have almost no experience on lincoln cents but i see roughly au to ms details but not the greatest surfaces and some nicks so i would put it as either ef-45 or au-50
IMO I think it's an XF-45 - AU Slider. That's real nice, quite a few nasty scratches for an AU55 or higher but it certainly has the details for an AU example IMO. Shawn
Finally, a couple in the ball park. I would like to know where those first guesses are seeing all this wear.
I guessed mine on the fact that I saw no wear...but didn't see much luster..so I gave it a high AU. stainless
These are usually not well struck. I will say MS63 BN. If there is wear, I can't see well enough from the photo to say so. 63BN Jim