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Wow...beautiful coin Jim! Great pics, but it's tough to capture the luster with any camera. At this level luster really becomes important. I am jealous of your thru the slab pictures!  I think biokemist is on to something. MS-65 RD to be conservative. |
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To me it's a border line MS65. It has carbon spots on the front and the O in one is poorly formed.
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It all depends on the area around the temple. If they do not think that is a rub, MS-65 as Thad stated, conservative. Hard to tell from the pics. Simply beautiful.
Jim
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I would give you a 68 if you give me that camera.Otherwise I will say it was graded 67.
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Ok I think enough of you have chimed in that I will reveal the grade that PCGS provided. I also noted on the back of the slab a David Lawrence sales id tag so I went to their website and pulled these scans from their website. I was also happy to see I didn't pay near what it went for in the DLRC Auction. Most of you put the grade at MS65-MS66 however all of you gave it the RD designation while PCGS gave it an RB. I don't disagree with you all at all because in hand this LWC really appears to be an RD cent not an RB cent. In any event I think it is definitely a PQ RB cent.    Edited by JimR
02/21/2010 09:11 am
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is that date doubled? or is it just MD
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Bedrock of the Community
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HAHAHAHA....I had a feeling this would go 66. The problem is the TPG's are really inconsistant between 65 and 66. Once again I see another 66 that's not as nice as my 39-D, that shows me I was robbed by a crappy day at NGC again. Just look at my coin that NGC gave me a 66 on. It looks a LOT better in hand, blazing luster and there's hardly a hit on it. In hand the only hit I see is on the obverse rim.  Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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02/21/2010 2:49 pm
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Thad,
That is a nice 39-D and I agree the obverse is really clean with the exception of the hit on the obverse rim at 12:00.
The reverse though appears to have a scratch between the P& L of Pluribus, on the C of cent and below the A. Maybe that's what got you the MS66. Did NGC give you a RD designation on it.
I guess mine went RB because of the subtle browning on either side of Lincoln. The reverse appears to be totally RD.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Any scratches (except the obverse rim) are just reflections or debris, there are no hits. Yea, it's a 66 red....I was ROBBED! I've compared it to many on ha.com this one smokes everything I saw. If it was more valuable, I'd submit it to PCGS, but right now I'm going to count my loss on the $25 grading fee.
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I guessed that would go RB but was not quite sure to be honest!
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Again, Thad, as when you posted it the first time, an amazing coin. why did you go with NGC and yes I would submit it to PCGS and expect better.
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My dealer was mainly using NGC at the time, so I just went along with his submissions. Otherwise, I'd have to wait a couple months until he had some going out to PCGS.
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