Post your Lincolns!

Look like oven coins. Am i right @Kentucky. Guessing that like the one that you tried to send. Guessing

 

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What are you referring to - Like the one I tried to send? And who is Kentucky?

 

New photos of 1949-D, last shown in post #4403.

 

Very much like that.

 

me

 

Here is a nice 43s I picked up recently for two bucks. Please don’t mind the dusty 2x2!

Reed.

 

wow, looks coppery

 

Just bad lighting and image taken with my iPad. Not the best camera. The surface is a little flat with little to no luster but for two bucks what the heck. It looks nice in hand.

Reed

 

You can change the color of copper in an oven.

 

I guess I missed your thread, Cheech quoted me and I assumed he was talking about something I had tried to send in. Do you have some oven baked coins that you tried to get graded?

 

No, I was just playing ( https://ventura.craigslist.org/atq/d/oxnard-roman-coins/7013033323.html ) If I put the cents directly under the heating element of an electric stove and heated it to 450 degrees, sometimes the coins took on a fiery red coloration.

 

I experimented many years ago with copper and zincolns so I'd know how to spot the copper heating game.

Done with a mini-torch in about 20 seconds:

 

Oops. Got mixed up a tad. Those cents look like they were baked in an oven. Kentucky bakes coins

 

Not necessarily! The TPG's are often wrong and they don't care. If a coin doesn't meet their scale for an acceptable "look", they bag it without second thought. It doesn't mean they are right and a rejected coin is 100% market unacceptable.

 

Thanks for the feedback. If it was a significant coin I would consider re-submitting it but it's not. I use it as an example on what not to submit.... Maybe I shouldn't.

 

Nuthin' sez lovin' like sumthin' frum the oven...

 

How can this only be MS63? How about 65? Just my opinion, but the surfaces are lustrous and details are as sharp as you are going to see for this year.

The one below is raw, so I can't use it for comparing the grading, but the beards on both coins demonstrate that the fine engraved details on the beard have been worn off of the master hubs since they were redone in 1916.

So if Bob's coin isn't as good as you can get for this issue, what is?