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Edited by rpmes
11/06/2013 02:54 am
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United States
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Looks like a PMD to me but I'm having fun trying to figure it out. You can see that its a Lincoln Cent but barely in the photo. |
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This is what I would do. Take some paper and cover the coin or just the area around where the date is. Take an old school regular #2 pencil and on about a 45 to 60 degree angle, lightly scratch the pencil on the paper and see if you get a hint of what the date could be. Another way would be to take a well focused up close picture of the coin, as big as you can get it. Then slowly but surely compress that down in size. Say your picture is 1200x1200, compress it down to 600x600, then 450x450 then 300x300 and see if it is willing to give you any info about the date at all. It would be a heck of a laugh if the coin was a copper 1943 Lincoln Cent..... Speaking of the 1943 Copper Lincoln, I may have to post a head scratcher of that very subject. |
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After looking again, I would say it is either a 1920 or 1930.
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if it is 3.1g then its not worn off its all there still I have found a badly worn cent it weighed 2.9g
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Maybe it was a pressure test strike that has also suffered a lot of wear - if the weights all there..just a guess
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United States
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Under the super mag and at just the right angle, I'm now convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that this coin is a 1910. It does not appear to be a S MM, but that could change with closer inspection. I could not make out a MM at all. Coop? You out there? Any thoughts? Thanks  |
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Though the coin is intriguing, its value, no matter the date (minus a few) as a Lincoln Cent is near nil. Typically for these I simply place them in a plastic roll and keep as copper. This would grade as poor, at best. I can see the rim, and the bottom of Lincoln at the south of the Obverse, which leads me to believe its just circulated wear. Remember if it is a 1910, its 103 years old, and its probably at the end of life as a lincoln. All circulated coins, are suspect of any sort of wear or PMD, since its difficult to track the trails of the coin in question. If only coins could talk, the tales ( or tails ?) it might tell.... Edited by Collector-Corner
11/08/2013 10:09 am
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Ok Thanks. Just never found one so worn down. Thought it may have been something interesting.
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It's gone. It looks like one with the wide rim. 1909-1918 (APROX)
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Posted 11/06/2013 3:16 pm
