Post your Lincolns!

Just bought these cheap for my album. 1943 P, S, D.

 

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From what I can tell those look like they have original surfaces. On the steelies you want to make sure not to get the replated ones. They are known as reprocessed and only worth 1 cent. We like to see pictures. The standard is 1 coin per picture. Then use a photo editor app to crop your pictures. I don't use any of the other features except to place the obverse and reverse together side by side. The standard in the hobby is the obverse to the left and the reverse to the right. I do this on all on my phone. I use a free app called Polish. This one I actually took with my phone using a small tripod to hold the phone steady as that is the only way to get clear pictures. Now I have a Nikon digital camera with snapbridge app that saves the pictures from the camera to the phone wirelessly.
The color is slightly off between the two pix but it is the same coin.

 

Nice coin. Every reprocessed steelie I've ever seen is very bright and has that polished look.

 

I will take more pictures when I have coins in hand.

My camera on my phone is terrible though! Lg stylo 5... I want to buy a DSLR camera and I'm currently looking into that.

 

Be aware that if you don't have them in hand and those are the sellers pictures you should not pay more than one dollar for them. And then only as a novelty they have no numismatic value.

The pictures are not good enough to tell if they are reprocessed. Beware of sellers with out of focus pictures.

 

This book might be helpful, too!

 

Ok thanks!

 

great book. the best I have seen on the subject with succinct direct information.

 

Over 57 million minted.

 

Where is the rev?

Just trying to get a feel for the grade, looks like the luster is amazing.

 

Here it is there is a scratch on the slab is why I left it out earlier Gotta polish it.

 

Just pushed the Buy It Now on this one also.

 

Nice coin! I finally found a 1919d for my set. It was the last non variety coin I needed.

 

This just arrived. I think I’ll give it a swish in some distilled water, acetone, and then xylene to see if it removes the slightly dirty look in places.



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... and I’ll share before and after pictures, even if it doesn’t work!

 

Post before and after pictures please.

 

Just try some distilled water first. You might be surprised at the originality the coin actually has.
Acetone is not always needed, and surely shouldn't be a process of every coin that is bought.

 

1972 DDO A friend gave me... My pictures are terrible but I am so proud to own this penny. I had wanted one really bad.

I'm going to try to buy a DSLR camera soon with it setup to take pictures of coins. I'm just trying to read and research and learn a bit more about it before I put that kind of money on something.

 

I swished the coin around in distilled water, and there was no change that I could see. Then I used some acetone, then distilled water, and then both again. There was a moment where a spot on the reverse turned chalky white. After a moment of panic, I rinsed it again and that went away.

There is still no difference that I can see. My higher-resolution photos show that what I took for dirt is really toning, so that's not going anywhere. You can see that if you expand the detail of the reverse.

I am left with only a vague impression of the cheek and hair being better defined. At least I didn't ruin my $19 investment in this coin.

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