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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WingedLiberty, post: 1409044, member: 26030&quot;]Though much promotion and press&nbsp; has been focused on Matte Proof Lincolns (1909-1916) over the past 10&nbsp; years.&nbsp; (Even I developed a &quot;100 Greatest Matte Proof Lincolns&quot; website&nbsp; in 2011!)&nbsp; Until now, very little has been done on promoting Mirror&nbsp; Proof Lincolns (1936-Current).</p><p><br /></p><p>Being an enthusiastic collector of&nbsp; colorfully-toned coins and having great interest in attempting to rank&nbsp; colorfully-toned coins by visual appeal (both passions of mine for the&nbsp; past year) -- I wanted to combine these interests into a new sister&nbsp; website (to my Matte Proof Lincoln website) called:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://100greatestmirrorprooflincolns.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://100greatestmirrorprooflincolns.com/" rel="nofollow">The 100 Greatest (Most Beautiful) Mirror Proof Lincolns</a></p><p><a href="http://100greatestmirrorprooflincolns.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://100greatestmirrorprooflincolns.com/" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p>I&nbsp; wanted to mention that in my first endeavor into this realm of ranking&nbsp; coins by visual appeal back in the Fall of 2011 (on the Matte Proof&nbsp; Lincoln website),&nbsp; the ranks were based on a &quot;consensus&quot; vote by a number of major&nbsp; registry set owners and field experts. For this second website for&nbsp; Mirror Proof Lincolns, I wanted to develop a new more &quot;objective&quot; system&nbsp; for ranking the visual appeal of colorfully toned coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So the goals of this new website are fivefold:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;1. Promote PCGS by emphasizing their expertise in grading coins, which&nbsp; has become (in my opinion) the industry standard. Every coin&nbsp; participating in this &quot;contest&quot; must be PCGS graded.</p><p>&nbsp;2. Acknowledge&nbsp; and honor the beauty of PCGS TrueView Photography (a group led by Mr.&nbsp; Phil Arnold).&nbsp; Every coin participating in this &quot;contest&quot; must have a&nbsp; TrueView photo.</p><p>&nbsp;3. Promote Lincoln Cent collecting in general.&nbsp; Show collectors just how stunningly beautiful Mirror Proof Lincolns can be.</p><p>&nbsp;4. Honor colorfully toned Mirror Proof Lincolns by gathering the most&nbsp; beautiful specimens into a single location, where those that love the&nbsp; many facets numismatics can easily view (gawk at) them.</p><p>&nbsp;5. Develop a&nbsp; new &quot;objective scoring system&quot; for ranking the visual appeal of&nbsp; colorfully toned coins -- called the &quot;Flash Index&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;6. Make new&nbsp; discoveries about this series based on statistics gleaned from this&nbsp; endeavor.&nbsp; Interesting finds will be summarized on the &quot;Statistics&quot;&nbsp; page. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The first two objectives, I hoped, would serve to promote and ultimately drive more customers to PCGS.</p><p><br /></p><p>In&nbsp; terms of objective 6, thus far two interesting finds have been made on:&nbsp; a.) the ultra rarity of PCGS graded BN Mirror Proof Lincolns and b.)&nbsp; the Enigma of the Year 1961. Both of these finds are detailed in the&nbsp; &quot;Statistics&quot; section. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I would be interested to hear any feedback on:</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;1. this new website in general (layout, content, look and feel, etc.)</p><p>&nbsp;2. the new &quot;objective method&quot; (called the &quot;Flash Index&quot;) for scoring&nbsp; colorfully toned coins at their most &quot;optimal view angle&quot; (in other&nbsp; words, the view typically captured through photography) </p><p>&nbsp;3. any comments on the sheer breathtaking beauty of these colorfully-toned Proofs</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A few final notes:</p><p><br /></p><p>-&nbsp; I do realize that the mintages of these Mirror Proof Lincolns are HUGE&nbsp; and I don&#039;t pretend to have captured all of the top coins on this&nbsp; website, but I do think this is a good start.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>- Please realize&nbsp; that the ranks shown are based on this PARTICULAR SYSTEM, which includes&nbsp; input from 10 predetermined categories. So the &quot;rank&quot; someone might&nbsp; come up with in their own head could be very different than what I&nbsp; developed, as someone else might emphasize color, mirrors, sparkle, or&nbsp; grade more or less than I did.&nbsp; This is NOT the end-all be-all of&nbsp; ranking, but does, I think, provide at least a preliminary basic&nbsp; framework to make these kinds of judgments.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>- Finally note that&nbsp; I have only accumulated coins down to a rank of #80 or so.&nbsp; I left some&nbsp; space because I am expecting to find more beautiful Mirror Proof&nbsp; Lincolns that will be inserted higher up on the list pushing existing&nbsp; coins down.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Along with the overall rank of 1 to 100.&nbsp; I also&nbsp; have coins separated and ranked by date.&nbsp; Both by the four extended&nbsp; runs: &quot;1936-1942&quot;, &quot;1950-1958&quot;, &quot;1959-1964&quot;, &quot;1968-1975&quot;, which shows&nbsp; the general types of coins one sees in each major run of Mirror Proofs;&nbsp; and I have also separated and ranked them by individual dates. </p><p><br /></p><p>-&nbsp; I cut off the last (final) year shown on this website at 1975.&nbsp; Beyond&nbsp; that date, beautiful, colorfully-toned Proof Lincolns are quite rare and&nbsp; nearly impossible to find.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]170442.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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