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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Setree Rare Coins, post: 2426612, member: 74719&quot;]This happened a long time ago. Almost 30 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>My son and I visited a coin shop than was on the sun porch at the home of a local District Justice. A very nice, older gentleman who loved coins. My six year old son was looking through his junk box and found a 1909 Lincoln cent that was encased in a piece of beveled glass about an inch square and a third of an inch thick. The coin had obviously been dropped in when the glass was molten or perhaps sealed there in some way that wasn&#039;t so obvious to us. It looked just like a piece of Lucite (but it was real glass) with a bright red/orange penny embedded in it! </p><p><br /></p><p>When I say red, I mean it was the color of a bright, new penny just off the die! We took a penny from a current BU roll and laid them side by side and they were the EXACT same color. And to top it off, the coin was well struck and mark free.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two or three years later, the grading services started up and I drove 75 miles to a coin dealer who had started sending coins to PCGS and he couldn&#039;t wait to see what they graded this one!</p><p><br /></p><p>This story isn&#039;t really about the grading service and the &quot;real&quot; or artificial color of coins as it came back MS64 Red. I do remember that the submitting dealer expected a 66 or a 67 grade and said it only brought a 64 because they downgraded it because they didn&#039;t believe that a coin could remain red for that many years and wanted us to join him in a law suit against the graders for under-grading coins &quot; guys like us. I thought he was nuts.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of it really mattered anyway as the reverse of the coin started to tone within a very short period of time. The obverse is developing some very small specks also. You may be able to view this a PCGS&#039;s site under number 2431.64/3223306 although I don&#039;t know if they kept photo records that far back.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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