1940-D LWC In Slab ... Your Grade?

I'm going to say the gash on Lincoln's cheek only limited it to 66RD. The reverse is easy 67RD.

Beautiful coin! 67RD

I did not know that! Thanks T-BOP.

One of the questions I had was about the dint on the cheek bone. From the Red Book, "At MS-65 and higher ... no contact marks are visible except under magnification." I cannot see the ding without magnification (with my glasses on), so I was thinking it's a factor in terms of eye appeal, but not grading.

I also wondered if it's RB or RD. Again from the Red Book, "Coins with full or nearly full mint orange-red color can be designated RD; ...."

I agree that the reverse is particularly nice and definitely MS-67. I was thinking 65/66 for the obverse, with an overall grade of MS-66-RD.

NGC's grade is MS-67-RD, which I thought was (is) a bit of a stretch.

I'm selling the coin on ebay currently, so we'll see what the free market concludes. I am very honest and thorough in my ebay listings, which tends to yield lower sales prices, but I sleep well at night.

Thanks so much for your responses!

Mark

P.S. On a completely unrelated, but interesting topic, I was intrigued by Spruett's Lucretius quote in his signature. I did a little searching around, summarized in a post I made at StackExchange/Latin-Language. A really smart person responded to my question about the proper translation of Lucretius' words into English. https://latin.stackexchange.com/que...noredirect=1

WOW! that is a great looking coin! I would have guessed 66RD as well.

In my opinion, this coin is MS65RD.

For anyone who missed it:

I was going to say MS66 RD