...use this as my first acetone guinea pig to get a better look at the eye area, but decided to let the trained eyes look through the gunk first. Tell me what you think.
bhp3rd, here's one post where there was no replies until I said "alrighty then". Even then all I got was "Don't leave it too long". Even to my untrained eye I can see something going on with Lincoln's eye area. Maybe it's nothing, but it doesn't look like the typical MD that I'm used to seeing. I thought die deterioration at first, but thought maybe the rest of the strike on the coin may have offset that assumption. I assume die deterioration can be isolated to a particular part of a coin, but every one I've seen so far in my short-lived collecting career has evenly distributed throughout the coin. I can't link to any known varieties, because I can't find any for a 1999D. All I can find are DDR's, so I have nothing to compare it to. At least not at coppercoins etc. I don't have a cherrypicker's guide as of yet. I was hoping the trained eyes would say "It's (insert diagnosis here), go ahead and practice". Or "wait! don't ruin the coin yet!" I have a copy of the Margolis/Weinberg Encyclopedia on it's way and I will bury my nose in it when it arrives, and maybe I will stop asking so many dumb questions and leave you guys alone. Until then, I just want to be sure I know what I'm looking at.
Do you see that rough surface in front of his eye/nose area. That's rot under the plating and that is what is effecting the coin around the eye. You can soak this one as long as you like as it is just a damaged coin. You always have to look beyond the anomaly to the areas around it. The rot is not isolated and is under the plating and it can wreak all kinds of havoc on the surface of the coin. Thanks, Bill
"You always have to look beyond the anomaly to the areas around it." That's interesting. I don't remember reading or hearing that before. I hope that book teaches me such things. I'll try to refrain from posting anymore until after I've read it. Except, I may post "after" pictures of this coin.
"foundinrolls" wrapped this puppy up already! I can add nothing except it has been one frustrsting day of utter surprise on the subject of doubled dies and "that's all I got to say about that".
It's something you should memorize....I teach it to all beginners when they are learning to examine coins for errors and die varieties. Beginners often focus on what they hope is something without taking the entire coin into consideration. Thanks, Bill
