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<p>[QUOTE="CircCam, post: 3370598, member: 85675"]Funny, the reason I posted this is I find it a very tough coin to pin down so it’s kind of nice to see grades are all over the place as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>My first reaction to it was MS62 BN when I picked it up, it was in a flip labeled XF45 (coins are just one small part of this shop and the grades are often wrong, for example I bought this there at MS60 and it came back 63, etc.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]893945[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When I got home I thought I saw wear on the wheat stalks but it’s tough with the woodgrain- the fields, rim, etc. look uncirculated to me. I settled on AU as my final grade but that’s really just a guess. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lincolns are tough. It’s a $140 coin in 62, I’d love to see where they would grade it for educational purposes. I did only pay $2 so if it comes back low I guess it wouldn’t be that big a loss.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CircCam, post: 3370598, member: 85675"]Funny, the reason I posted this is I find it a very tough coin to pin down so it’s kind of nice to see grades are all over the place as well. My first reaction to it was MS62 BN when I picked it up, it was in a flip labeled XF45 (coins are just one small part of this shop and the grades are often wrong, for example I bought this there at MS60 and it came back 63, etc.) [ATTACH=full]893945[/ATTACH] When I got home I thought I saw wear on the wheat stalks but it’s tough with the woodgrain- the fields, rim, etc. look uncirculated to me. I settled on AU as my final grade but that’s really just a guess. Lincolns are tough. It’s a $140 coin in 62, I’d love to see where they would grade it for educational purposes. I did only pay $2 so if it comes back low I guess it wouldn’t be that big a loss.[/QUOTE]
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