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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 2246369, member: 26030&quot;](I hear you Chief!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Great comments and thanks for voting!&nbsp; Interesting that the group overall had a slight preference for #1, but there were a good number of voters that liked #2 more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just for fun, I dusted off my old Flash Index scoring system and tried to come with with &quot;eye appeal scores&quot; for both coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a bit of background, The Flash Index was a feeble attempt on my part to break down (and semi-quantify) the process I go through in my own head when trying to gauge eye appeal (which is itself an impossible and totally subjective endeavor, I realize!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly enough, when I tried to score both coins, coin #1 very slightly beat out coin #2 (by only 3%, which is a pretty tiny difference).</p><p><br /></p><p>The primary difference in scores was:</p><p><br /></p><p>First, 2 points lost by coin #2 due to the 64 vs 65 grade. (I think both of these coins (perhaps) should have gotten the same grade -- either both 64&#039;s or both 65&#039;s -- I just don&#039;t see where the 1 point difference is coming from -- as they both have some little minor hits on them).&nbsp; You might wonder why should the grade be an input into the Index?&nbsp; I tossed that in as only a 10% influence of the total score to give a bit of weight to what PCGS thought of the grade (perhaps a bit controversial).</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, another slight difference was coin #2 had a slight issue with black spots with a darkening on the bottom of Lincolns jacket on the obverse and on the left wheat ear on the reverse (just minor tho).</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, coin #2 made up a tiny bit of ground by having a more flashy (interesting) reverse in terms of color. </p><p><br /></p><p>Those minor things (basically) accounted for the slight difference in total scores.&nbsp; So all in all -- both of these coins are really close and just superb eye appeal coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps to most collectors it might boil down if they like darker (brown) copper or brighter (red-brown) copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do agree with the poster above that noted that coin #1 should have graded BN since it has NO original mint fresh copper color on it -- however PCGS will often call that brick red toning (RD) even though technically it&#039;s toning and not original copper. Also PCGS is sometimes influenced by a coins brightness and will call brighter golden toned coins RB.&nbsp;&nbsp; In any case, if I was grading these two coins, I probably would have called tagged both MS65BN&#039;s and called it a day.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/Flash_1911_Linc_MS65RB.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://mindstar.com/cointalk_photos/Flash_1911_Linc_MS64BN.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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