Only PCGS and NGC? They both would bag this beauty! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Dude....YOU'RE ROCKING NOW! I'd call it a day, have a glass of chianti and fire up a cigar! Great job!
Exactly! If I'm after single pictures, I usually move my light, check, move the light check, over and over and over until I feel the picture will...
I use that method too, I can move my light in infinite ways....that's really best way to take coin pictures. Fixed lighting just doesn't work well...
Don't know the series but looks non-MA to my eyes. If that's actually what it looks like, I'd run from it.
MA toning....beautiful coin BTW! 1909's like that are rarer than the VDB.
Simply angling your light and camera angle does wonders for showing color: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Just cheat like I do and supplement the pics with a couple angled ones. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Great pictures, I can tell those are more colorful than they look in the pictures. How many would mistakenly call that an AU coin? Thanks for...
More likely another filled die. Worn dies on Lincolns still produce the devices, they just tend to get wider and uglier. Missing device elements...
Die deterioration, quite common to the issue as the mint over-used the dies.
A 1958? UNREAL!
Not MA toning, oddly, there appears to be little toning near the rim, like something was slowing the toning 1-2mm around the rim to the fields....
Crocodile Dundee voice: "That's not a rainbow. This is a rainbow!" :p [ATTACH]
Just a grease filled reverse die. The lack of sufficient striking pressure caused the obverse design to not fully fill the die giving the portrait...
This is not an error coin, worth 1 cent, sorry.
Normal coin, no doubling.
MA, near terminal toning on the obverse....hard to fake.
MA - That's a beauty IMO.
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