GTG - 1910 Lincoln Cent

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AU-50

 

AU 53

 

65

 

Oh wow.... Are the blue hues a reflection or is that on the cent?

 

65BN. I can understand why some people prefer Lincolns that are as minted red and even red brown with mostly red surfaces but brown designation coins with color like this one are the sweet spot in my opinion. Very gorgeous example!

 

64 Bn. Pretty coin lots of eye appeal!

 

MS-63 BN

 

On the coin... it’s blue toning with subtle hints of pink and purple around the devices.

Agreed. I found a lovely dark blue BN MS toner a few months ago, but I passed as it was too* dark in the slab. Blue with a lighter brown hue came along and it was a no brainer.

 

Luster looks good, surfaces are clean. I could see it at MS65, but 64 would not surprise me.

 

Will reveal soon if anyone else wants to guess. Fun ice blue coin to commemorate some unusual snow here these past weeks.

 

65 bn

 

Paid 65 money gladly with the color and PQ look in hand.

 

So is it a technical 63 that was market-graded 64 (meaning you overpaid), or it is a 64 that should have been market-graded 65 (meaning you paid what it should be worth)?

 

Very nice, that's my kind of Lincoln.

 

I feel I paid what it is worth. I find Lincoln’s particularly hard to photograph but it’s a sweet coin for well under a hundred bucks.

This particular dealer is very honest about how good or bad for the grade even very high dollar coins are and had a return policy... He felt it was gem and a point undergraded and priced it accordingly.

 

Thanks. Ogling your avatar coin is what sent me hunting for a toned Lincoln.

 

IMO your first set of photos doesn't show the beauty of this coin as well as your second set.

 

I think you made a great choice. That’s one fine coin with very graceful eye-movement through it. Congrats.

 

Yeah, I try to do a half and half balance of color and luster as best as I can for GTG’s... this one is hard to read from photos as the areas that look dark brown in the initial set are blue toning in hand.

Thanks! It’s far more valuable to me now as it’s going to remind me of a rare weekend of going sledding with my little girl. Usually if it ever does snow here it is rained out immediately so that was pretty great.