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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1754179, member: 26030&quot;]A (bad) photo of the sealed 1988-s Proof Set taken with my iPhone. The white rectangles reflected in the plastic are my two skylights. The Jefferson had similar blue/silver toning around the edges, but not the great raspberry interior that the Lincoln had. The other 3 coins in the set were basically untoned.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1988_Proof_Set_Small.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the spirit of full disclosure, I submitted this raspberry 1988-s Lincoln to PCGS using their Regular service with the coin cracked out of this set a few weeks ago and it came back Questionable Color. I am going to submit it a 2nd time (this time) using the Secure Plus service so it can be sniffed for illegal chemicals. Since it came out of a sealed set I am thinking the sniffer will find it clean and I am hoping PCGS will use that info to grade it. I wish that PCGS would accept coins in original OGP, but even if you sent them in that way they always crack the coins out as the first step, so the graders never see the OGP set.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It&#039;s interesting that I have a very similar Proof Lincoln minted 10 years earlier (1978-S) that graded fine first time through (using the Secure Plus service). This 1978-s also came out of a sealed set that I bought about a year ago from a different seller. The 1978-s is not as nice IMHO as the 1988-s. Here is the 1978-S PCGS PR67RB ... (note the similarity in colors between the 2 coins). Since the 78-s graded, I see no reason why the 88-s shouldn&#039;t grade as well. But PCGS can be funny and inconsistent at times.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/TVBlack_1978SLincProof.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And here is the full obverse of the 1988-s Proof Lincoln ...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/1988-S_Linc_O_1100.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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