Maybe a nice proof will sway you? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] These are more polished photos than in my older post.
Proof Lincolns can be lit to create bright highlights on a dark background, or a bright background. This lighting can be used to accentuate or...
This first-year V-nickel looks like it has passed through a few hands and left behind some dirt. I'm glad it hasn't been cleaned up, because this...
I have been posting Lincoln cents each day for a while now. The business strikes after 1934 have primarily been from a set bought in a Dansco....
The mint made changes during the previous 20 years to improve the striking. The lettering is thinner, and the alignment of the letters in LIBERTY...
While waiting for coinsareus10 to post the reverse, I decided to reshoot mine. I really need to take it out of that slab, though... [ATTACH]...
Thank you. I would have thought that a long run of bright shiny ungraded pennies, spanning a century, would have become "same old, same old". But...
The reverse of this 1989-S proof has a die crack that starts at the eleventh column of the Lincoln Memorial and runs under "oF" and right on...
You used to get a candy bar for a nickel. Now the candy bar is $1.25 and the nickel is $1.00. Go figure!
The 1988 proof has smoother fields that are more like the proofs from the 1950's, or from today. The business strikes still look they are stamped...
Also from the bin of junk war nickels destined for the smelter; also $1. [ATTACH]
I always liked war nickels. I fished this out of the bin at the LCS for $1. [ATTACH]
1987 Proof [ATTACH] 1987 Business strikes [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1986 Proof [ATTACH] 1986 Business strikes [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The preceding discussion of the 1955 Doubled Die is surreal. I could understand some marks being transferred from the die to the coin and being...
I am about to photograph a set of slabs. I've got a new idea I want to try; maybe some of you would like to try it too. My idea of using a black...
[ATTACH] There are some marks on the holder that show up here. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1984 Proof [ATTACH] 1984 Business strikes [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This 1983 proof still shows issues with bonding the copper and zinc, creating a bubbly effect in the fields. 1983 Proof [ATTACH] 1983 Business...
This site is full of information about 1982 cents and their diagnostics. The thread A Guide to 1982 Lincoln Cent Identification is an excellent...
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