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<p>[QUOTE="rh287, post: 739274, member: 1716"]Hi,</p><p>I opened a set of 1964 PR coins today. At first the Lincoln cent jumped out at me. It was Deep Cameo and amazing strike. As a matter of fact though none of the other four coins were cameo, they are superb. All look at least PR 69 to me, amazing strikes and luster and no marks of any kind. I just cut them out of their plastic package today. That's pretty rare for all the coins in a PR set in plastic packaging to be in that condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway the question I have is as I looked at the cent under magnification, I notice only one flaw. I thought it was a scratch at first and my heart sunk. What it really is is roughly a 1/8 inch crack in the coin just to the right of the initials on the obverse on Lincoln's lower collar. Will this effect the grade in a negative way? I've never owned such a perfect PR DC '64 Lincoln DC cent other than that flaw.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rh287, post: 739274, member: 1716"]Hi, I opened a set of 1964 PR coins today. At first the Lincoln cent jumped out at me. It was Deep Cameo and amazing strike. As a matter of fact though none of the other four coins were cameo, they are superb. All look at least PR 69 to me, amazing strikes and luster and no marks of any kind. I just cut them out of their plastic package today. That's pretty rare for all the coins in a PR set in plastic packaging to be in that condition. Anyway the question I have is as I looked at the cent under magnification, I notice only one flaw. I thought it was a scratch at first and my heart sunk. What it really is is roughly a 1/8 inch crack in the coin just to the right of the initials on the obverse on Lincoln's lower collar. Will this effect the grade in a negative way? I've never owned such a perfect PR DC '64 Lincoln DC cent other than that flaw. Thanks...[/QUOTE]
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