"Bu" 1928 LWC--What Am I Seeing Here?

I did not take your comments as speculating on me, as the seller. I appreciate your several posts on the 1901 Indian Head.

I have removed all the coins mentioned by list members as suspect from my ebay listings.

Just curious

Did you purchase all the coins mentioned .. From the same seller.

I have not looked at all the suspect coins, but the 1891 dime would worry me.

The coins I see posted are not the normal coins being faked.

I hope for you that it is just the pictures, pictures sometimes do not show how
A coin truly looks.

But as said before, there are some very good experts here on CCF.
When the experts think something looks wrong, I would look into it.

Of course that is just my opinion.

To answer a number of questions raised:

All these coins were purchased from different ebay sellers in the last month. That's why I invited people to check out my feedback comments so they can see that all the coins have different sources.

I will admit that the 1928 is a difficult coin to photograph. I took about 20 photos of it trying to get a decent one and wasn't overly happy with the photo I used on ebay. I photographed it finally in sunlight, but with the low winter sun here in Wisconsin you get strong angles, even at noon.

My comment about "list members" was not in reference to any ebay decision-making body, but comments by members of the CCF in the active topics on my coins.

I don't mean to be defensive, but to have all these different coins purchased from different sellers all called in question in a single thread did hit me as strange.

Once again, I do appreciate the comments and will show the coins in question to my local dealer. I hope to do this over the weekend.

Thank You. I appreciate the comments.

While I've had a rather shaky introduction to this list, I think I'll stick around.

My main area of collecting is ancient Roman coins, but I've been buying and selling U.S. more recently as I'm getting back into collecting U.S. type coins. I'm sure I can learn a lot from the group.

again, and hope you enjoy the forums.

The looks 100% authentic, it's the picture that is murdering it. I would like to have seen the reverse to fully evaluate it, but I can tell pretty much from the obverse that it's "real". The L going into the rim cannot be faked from what I've ever seen on other fakes. I can also see a couple of slight traces of cartwheel luster.

You guys are putting too much faith in the picture - never do that unless you are familiar with the photographer. I actually think this is a lightly woodgrained, red cent. I'm willing to bet it's actually very nice in hand.

Paul - I commend your for being so cool!

I cannot speak for any coin other than the 1928 Lincoln, which I believe to be authentic. Your picture is TOO WELL lit. The picture is over-exposed. I don't know the original size, but the Lincoln image posted has a lot of granularity in it....looks to be due to processing. When you have too much light, it will cut through the patina and make the coin look funky.

You can ask for help in the photography forum here. We have a lot of good folks here to help. Better ebay photos will help you sell more coins.

Paul - Turn on your setting to "allow email from members" in settings. I'd like to chat.