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Nope the eagles name is actually Honest Abe. Its an actual Bald Eagle housed with the 101st.

 

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Some US Philippine:

1904-S Peso PCGS MS62

1908 Five Centavo Proof, PCGS PR64

 

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Not much, but picked up a nice RPM in a trade today. :thumb:

 

From Lehigh96 on ebay. MS66*. Just wish my pics did it justice.

 

Nice , at least a 45 , maybe 50 on a good day .

 

This is the one I was talking about in the last post .

 

Ken - Nice pickups on the ATB quarters!

 

As an ANA member, I picked this up at the FUN Convention in Orlando last week. It is a special edition, minted by the Perth Mint, honoring the ANA Philadelphia show in August of last year. It was limited to just 5000 pieces. I thought it would look good in my display case along with my ANA pin I purchased at their museum this past June. It's one troy ounce, 99.9 fine silver and part of the Lunar Dragon Series they produced.

 

My updated Colorfully-Toned Proof Lincoln Collection. This covers 74 years of Proof Lincolns. New coins added were the 1912 Matte Proof, 1936 Satin Proof (upgrade), the ultra rare 1959 (in the toned coin realm), the 3 SMS coins (not technically proofs), a monster PR68 upgrade to my 1969-S, and nice placeholders for 1972-S, 1973-S, 1977-S, 1981-S Filled S and Clear S. Finally, the brand new PR67RB 1978-S might be considered a monster as I bet it will be the latest-date Proof Lincoln I will find with a lot of deep color that PCGS will grade.

Once you get into the mid to late 1970's, finding colorfully toned proofs gets really difficult. I guess the 1980s and 1990s are just too recent to have any of colorfully toned examples -- so I might cut this off at 1982, which is a good stopping point since that marks the end of the 95% copper 5% zinc alloy run. (Starting in 1983, the composition of Lincolns was changed to copper plated zinc).

I also tweaked my coin boards to add the PCGS grade underneath each coin and I designed a new "cover" to my digital set making the set look more like a coin folder or album.

I think my favorite coin on each board is the 1914, 1937, 1955, 1961, 1966, 1971-S, 1978-S -- but you might have your own favorites.

Some of the eye appealing runners-up are: 1909, 1913, 1915, 1936 Satin, 1940, 1941, 1951, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1968-S, 1969-S, 1975-S.

Degree of difficulty in putting a set like this together: "Extreme to nearly impossible". I doubt I will ever complete it due to the expense and rarity of the 1909 vdb and the 1916. However if any novice collectors want to try their hands at it, try selecting just one "board" to complete. I recommend the P-Mint Memorial era as those years will give you the highest population of toned proofs in the marketplace.

 

Wow what a set Winged Liberty.....

 

That LSD is shaaaawheat.

 

Genius presentation and mind-boggling Lincoln's.

 

That's looking mighty fine WL!

 

Heres some new things I have coming my way, none of it has arrived yet, but all deals are finalized and just waiting on arrival. These are the highlights:

 

Beautiful color on that half eagle. :thumb:

 

Heres the other thing i ordered: