1909 vdb

I love the positive comments guys but I won't keep my expectations too high on this. I have to agree with another member that, it is just too darn shiney. Compare to PCGS ...

 

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I cant tell for sure due to the lighting in your pics but the surfaces do look off to me. If it straight grades it's MS63 or 64 at best. But again, I'm not a fan of the surfaces or color. It is possible it was lightly whizzed.

Here's my MS65 RB. The surfaces are very clean and a little toning helps the eye appeal factor as well.

 

That is more what I would think to expect from a 111 year old penny.

def not, no markers, rounded over rim. Thx for suggestion.

 

How do you do this to your coin? Is it an app that you do this in? But very nice!

 

Very nice! Here is mine. The reverse of mine gives mine probably details. But still a very nice.

 

It is several images composed and saved in ".gif" format. There are lots of apps or programs to do this.

 

Is that the actual color?

 

Yes here is another picture. Is the color bad?

 

It looks gold on my monitor, with a hint of green. Not a color I'm used to seeing on a cent. Can you show a photo of it next to a shiny new pocket-change cent?

 

Me?

 

Sorry, yes.

 

nice, makes that 19 look like scrap.

 

The rim depth must have offered some protection to the devices on coins like this.

 

That's a really weird color. I wonder if it's toning, or some foreign substance on the coin? The rim looks like it's the right color...

 

I don't know exactly. But there is nothing on this coin. It could have been cleaned or polished I don't know.

 

Maybe a brainfart as I haven't looked critically at Lincolns in 50 years, but the hubs were new then, so shouldn't the portrait be a lot sharper? If it came cheap on ebay, I'd compare closely to enlarged images of authenticated 1909VDB.

 

nm

 

Kind of like the McRib?

 

I bet it’s a matte proof.