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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;giorgio11, post: 6450986, member: 17094&quot;]I&#039;m not sure if many folks here follow these, but PCGS has a &quot;Toned Lincolns&quot; Registry Set where the logic is backwards from the normal set. A Brown &quot;BN&quot; cent (beautifully toned or just dirt brown) gets a bonus, the Red and Brown cents &quot;RB&quot; get neither a bonus nor a deduction, and the Red &quot;RD&quot; cents get a deduction. I and some of my fellow dealers/collectors have been pursuing the Brown cents for years. In my case, I prefer beautifully toned cents, although the fellow having the current #1 Finest set is fine with regular dirt-brown or toned cents, as long as the preservation and luster are there.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, anyway, here is the link to our set:</p><p><a href="https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/half-cents/lincoln-cents-specialty-sets/lincoln-cents-toned-basic-set-circulation-strikes-1909-1958/publishedset/160248" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/half-cents/lincoln-cents-specialty-sets/lincoln-cents-toned-basic-set-circulation-strikes-1909-1958/publishedset/160248" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/half-cents/lincoln-cents-specialty-sets/lincoln-cents-toned-basic-set-circulation-strikes-1909-1958/publishedset/160248</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We recently reached this plateau after buying one of the key dates, the 1914-D, graded MS64+BN PCGS. The amazing luster, good preservation (save for one small nick on the reverse), and gorgeous blueberry toning make it, all things considered, one of the most appealing &quot;BN&quot; 1914-D cents in existence, in our humble opinion. The Trueview gives an excellent idea of what the coin looks like:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256854[/ATTACH]</p><p>We say &quot;plateau&quot; because there is a vast gulf between where we are and what it would take to get to #1 ... which we don&#039;t really care that much about as a goal, anyway. The hardest coins in the set are, of course, high-grade late-date BN cents of common status.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you enjoyed this, and I&#039;d be honored if you&#039;d take a look via the link above at the rest of the set, many of which have Trueviews.</p><p><br /></p><p>And thus endeth my tale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kind regards,</p><p><br /></p><p>George[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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