These Are Tricky To Grade, 1922-D Lincoln Cent, Weak-D

Superb example of a weak D - perhaps the nicest I've ever seen.

I find the date quite intriguing. The variety of die states and the beating the dies took that year really amazes me. The year they only had one mint producing coins happened to be the year they allowed them to go so far as to wear the mintmark completely off the coin, on 2 separate dies. Though there are many other coins in the series with notorious problems with strike and die state, this one hands down was the worst I would say.

Not to hijack, but here's the ms63rb I sent off a while back that I picked up raw, I personally love the ugly thing.

Coinfacts has a really nice looking weak d in the rb tab worth checking out as well.

Zowie, that's fantastic!

That is a weak D! Refreshing to see a real one posted, it's been a long time.

These must be graded on the side that exhibits the best die state, in this case the obverse. There is pretty significant flattening of the check and jaw and a good number of hits here and there on both sides. The rims look pretty nice, it's not as worn as most would think IMO.

VF-30/35