1910 S/S Lincoln Wheat Cent - RPM-001, FS-501

Nice purchase! Nice and clear RPM as well.

Thanks all for the super kind words! It's been a struggle with these RPMs. I sold off one of the ones that came back "details" and the buyer sent me a note back saying he was astonished it went details. I just got back a 1942-D that has a couple light scratches from what appears to be mishandling on a hard surface. Very minor. Came back cleaned. Pulled a coin out of a very nice BU roll a while back and it came back questionable color. No one is messing with with these coins, just PCGS killing their value by details grading them on a whim. Ah well, the process goes on and just hoping to finally nail down a decent grade for this RPM.

Well yes that is a rather specific username! With four RPMs the 1910-S issue is fun to hunt, but so far have only been able to find an RPM-003 in a top grade. All four are reasonably easy to find in circulated grade, so just don't know why they are so tough as you climb the scale.

Wow! Very nice looking coin and a great RPM.

From what I personally see in your pictures, the reason it came back as cleaned is b/c the coffee in the office was not very good that day. That statement has as much probable truth to it as it does facetiousness.

Very nice RPM on a very nice-looking coin TB!

Thanks! And if you are really deep into the weeds on such things, I will note here that there is what appears to be a clear error in the die stages on VV. The obverse die is listed in 4 stages, A-D, with the primary differences being on the reverse. Stage A is noted as the first reverse, with light die cracks, while stages B-D have a second reverse. But it's pretty obvious just looking at the die scratches around the IBU on the reverse images that this is all one reverse and not a second reverse. How the stage A die cracks disappeared is a mystery to me, but it's all just one reverse. For the record the coin posted above would be, on VV stage B, on Wexler stage A and on CC EDS.

Great looking LWC!




This caught my interest so I had to look. Maybe this is a master die defect? I took a look at a PCGS 1910 S (non RPM) MS67+ and I can see similar looking lines.

Fantastic!