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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2653839, member: 77413&quot;]The NGC Coin Explorer website comments that spotting and marks are common throughout the 1940&#039;s. I suppose better examples could be found.</p><p><br /></p><p>With a large set of Lincolns, I only have to look at other years to see purely clean coins. With these issues, I see them as they were produced, warts and all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I view this as an opportunity to archive what really happened, instead of chasing an unrepresentative idealized image in my mind.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]587571[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]587572[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]587573[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This one, graded MS-64, was acquired to replace the one above. The strike is a little better, but both have some spotting. So instead of being an upgrade, these two coins illustrate the normal production differences from the same mint in the same year.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]587574[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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