So picked this one up today as well. The rims are beat up; possible rim restricted die duplication? Anyway, very hard to take good photos to show how it looks in hand.(have to use indirect lighting which is why the back of Lincoln's jacket and head and the bottom reverse near the rim look darker). But no hairlines and the striations are running the same direction throughout the Planchet, it seems. A couple of marks in the fields but other than the rims (how do the rims get beat up but but almost nowhere else) not bad for 1941...
Looks like a business strike to me - an early stage woody with some corrosion. Still, I love woodies....great coin! It has character!
Soo tough to photograph...i know this doesn't have the square rims but it has the mirror finish....unless it is plated? But why copper plate a copper cent?
No actually I don't. I wished to understand what I was looking at to be able to learn. I now know how to tell a proof from a "polished to death" coin. I hope you have learned something from this thread as well. I will be taking it back to the LCS from which I purchased it as it was labeled proof we will see how the proprietor reacts to my request for a refund.
Well I went by the LCS and asked to return the coin, said I would take store credit if he wanted to do it that way. Without hesitation he said I can just give you back the cash; pulled out the money and handed it to me. Class act.
