Post your Lincolns!

Any ideas on this ? Broken die?

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

I will try and get a better picture if anyone thinks its worth the trouble.

 

Next up is 1937. I bought the first coin as an upgrade because of the spottiness on the second one. (Lincoln with measles?) I put the first one face up and the second one face down - why just show the fronts! Even if these are the same year and mint mark, they still have fascinating differences.

The more of these I photograph, the more I am impressed by the effort put in by the original collector to put this set together. The set I bought was 1934-1991, pretty much all like what you see here. The pre-1934 coins had been stripped out, and probably sold separately by the dealer. I really wonder what they were like...

 

If this wasn't booming with lustre, I wouldn't be posting it.

 

I believe this is a variety, 1989 RDV-005.

 

1938 Proof


Showing the squared-off rim


1938 Business Strikes

 

1939 completes my posts of the 1930's Lincolns. Even in a single year with fully red coins there are pleasing and subtle differences in color. These are all photographed with the same lighting and exposure.

 

Recent find in a bag of wheat cents.

 

That was obviously parked somewhere out of harms way for a long, long time.

Great find.

I hope you don't mind, but I think your pictures deserve to be seen bigger and better. Here they are.

 

Thanks, I appreciate this.

 

I am posting all of my penny.

 

The Philadelphia cent is just starting to tone above Liberty.

The San Francisco mint hammered out a coin that managed to fully fill out the O in ONE, in contrast to the '38, '39, and '40 I posted above.

For I while I was thinking that the roughness on the weakly struck O's was from contact with other coins in the mint. Then I realized that if the metal is not pushed fully up into the die, the surface won't be forced into a smooth texture. That was when I learned that the rough surface marks found on Lincoln's coat sleeve and on the O are often elements of the strike, and not of contact.

This is a year grouping with color variations that I really like.

 

I have definately caught the Lincoln bug!!! "It is amazing how someone can get so excited over a penny!" Said my wife when I started collecting 3 weeks ago.

 

You're having too much fun, Ron.

And your imagery is coming around nicely. The more lustrous Lincolns are not you - they're just that much more difficult to capture perfectly. Give me circulated copper under the lens every day; I'll look like a pro.

 

Thanks,Dave. I'm pleased with the progress, that they look so good already.

I know I still have a lot to learn about adjusting light angle and exposure. I want to light up the toning and capture the feel of the luster.

There are several things I enjoy about posting these.

• I pay respect to the original collector who built the set.
• As the current custodian I get to share his collection with everyone.
• Having bought 185 coins at once (1934-1991), I have a way to get to know each of them in detail.
• And I get to combine three of my interests at once. Coins and photography, obviously, and I have also had fun writing software to rename the images, straighten them, draw a cropping boundary around the coin, erase the background, and resize it for the web.

Too much fun, indeed!

 

Then you've learned the most important aspect of coin photography - how vastly it deepens the numismatic experience. I know every single coin I own intimately. None have any secrets from me.