The Reverse shows mechanical damage from having been spun around in some machine. All the photos show the tops of the photos in a shadow. Jim A
I agree with David Setree.
The first looks a little under exposed. The second could have better white balance and obviously had the light source from the top. The third...
The first looks a little under exposed and has a different toning. The second could use better white balance and shows light coming from the top....
Glibly stating a grade is no problem: it can be accepted or not, and can be compared to grading by others. But FAKE is another matter. It can't...
Hot, but poorly minted. The Reverse is weak and the Obverse is sloppy with numbers reaching or into the rim, like the L, and the rim is thin at 4...
very attractive coin with a consistent patina. Merits an AU 65'
I'd like to have a lot of them---to spend.
The last photo of NEW MEXICO is particularly interesting. All the straight lines at the top show a doubling. C an O do not, neither does the...
Looking back at the first photo, why do the numbers look like cleaned copper while the field is so grey? There is not this discrepancy in the...
At least you can't blames the laudrymat.
That hardly looks like plate splitting. It looks like something foreign sliced into the 9 and 8. The areas pointed to look more like changes in...
Well, we both have beards, but I'm anderspud, not treehugger.
Could MD also be the cause of what to be the letters "TS" in the hair over his brow?
It's more likely a workman hit it with side cutter. The gauge is too round for a lamination. This was strictly an outside error.
I just noticed I could not read the L in Liberty. There is an L there. It's just that the lighting was weak on the left
Here is my best wheat Lincoln. I estimate its grade as VF. I may have a bias to grade things on the low side. Would any of go higher? Jim
Before being claimed a fake, some photos should be made without having a strong light source coming from 12 o'clock. Fake or not, the microscopic...
By and large I have picked up helpful knowledge on grading and errors and the fastidious varieties, gradually getting used to abbreviations and...
There is no damage to the field around the 6. Any mechanical damage after minting would undoubtedly show disruption of the field. Simply calling...
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