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Alas, it's a scratch. I am imagining a staple.
My second Standing Liberty Quarter. Bought in person at the LCS after looking at their tray of ungraded SLQ's. Definitely old school. Any...
You guys have hit on something, I think. This is the new retail. And the buyers are coin collectors, not numismatists. On this forum we have the...
This 1980 proof looks like another neglected issue. 3.5 million proofs were minted, yet NGC has graded only 893 of them. And that seems hardly...
No, literally - you literally have tiny magnifying glasses in the pictures. These must be huge on your monitor, because the magnifying glass...
@BadThad and @Evan8, you make me appreciate my 1973-S's a lot more! This is a proof that I need to replace. As with the previous year, there is...
If anyone wants to play "Where's Waldo?", @robec has left a miniscule magnifying glass in each image. Really! Can you find them? Happy searching!
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Kevin - Thank you for replying. The discussion of matte proof Lincolns often fails to fully answer a lot of questions that people have about...
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The cent in the Philadelphia mint packaging shows that a coin can get beat up without ever entering circulation. Would anyone be happy to have an...
1974 was the final year that the San Francisco mint produced cents for circulation. As in the late 1950's, starting in 1975 there are only...
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The beginnings of toning on these 1971 cents is quite subtle. The bust of Lincoln on the proof, the face on the D and S, and the memorial steps on...
The San Francisco mint produced two main varieties in 1970. There are a lot of articles on this site and others about identifying the large date...
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