1972-S Lincoln

Okay - tomorrow I'll get the weight. i'm gonna go to a coin dealer though. I want to stay out of jewelers this time of year. I would feel to guilty if I went to a jeweler and didn't get my wife a nice Valentines day gift.

So Speedy - plating a coin only adds a negligible amount to the weight?

 

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Plated should put too much weight on it...

One word of advise...take it to a jewelers....there are 3 types of dealer...
#1...the type that can tell you what it is without a weight.
#2...the kind that is willing to weight it and see if it is good and make a good offer.
#3...the kind that will take it to the back room and not tell you what the weight is....if it is good they might offer you a quarter.

A jeweler isn't into coins and could care less what it weights...

That is just my 2cents...if you want to do a dealer...than go for it.

The chances of this being plated right now are 50 and the chances that this is something else is 25 and the chances of this being a wrong planchet is 25....

Speedy

 

Did you go to penn state? Great school right there if you did. (I'm finishing up this semester)

 

Grauduated in the early 90's - best four years of my life.

 

That's "graduated" - don't want anyone to say anything about my Penn State education.

 

Well - it came in at 3.1. I guess that means it's not an off-metal planchet.

 

I would say then that it is either toned by someway that isn't normal...or it is plated...but I don't what it would be plated with.

Speedy

 

I was sending in a few coins to be graded, so I added this one to the bunch, only $14, what the heck. It came back as AU-58 brown. So - no plating. I looked through the pop. reports and there aren't any browns from San Fran that year, or any other year, that I could see. Can anyone elaborate on what the "brown" designation means.

 

When a cent is struck it is RED....as time goes on the copper tones to a brown....that is because of the air...
A copper coin can be RED RED/BROWN or BROWN.

Speedy

 

It means that they deemed the color to be substantially diffeent from the standard isssued color of a copper cent. There are 3 color classifications for cents, they are red, red-brown, and brown. The reds receive the greatest price premium when offered for sale since they are "original".