1913 Matte Proof Lincoln?

physics-fan3.14 · Dec 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM

gmarguli said: ↑

The most glaring is that the color is off. It just doesn't look like original color. It has an orange look to it.

On Lincoln, the high points are blue tinged. There are blue spots on the top of the rim.

If you look at the top of the right wheat stalk, there is a darker area that has some residue with what appears greyish-blue coloring around it where the residue was removed. Same at 6:00. This is exactly the look you get when using chemicals to remove residue from copper.

Both sides have darker red and blue areas scattered around in a very unnatural way.

Everything points to some chemical used to clean the coin.
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Gotcha, thanks. I guess I was interpreting the blues as areas of toning from contact with a paper envelope. Learned something!

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