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Canada
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Beautiful 1924 small cent.  Outstanding eye appeal.  |
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 Canada
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Both of your 1c's look soo nice . Mine 1c is nothing compared to yours, my 64 that is starting to grow on me. I just got it from a coin roll.  not the nicest picture. Edited by xd99xd
04/26/2015 01:16 am
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I prefer red over brown any day of the week. That's not to say I always get it my way.
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Canada
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Here is another one that I love - I picked it up languishing in an ICCS MS-62 Lustrous Brown flip.. Always a pleasure to see that amazing 24..Thanks again SPP. ..and how could ICCS put a 62 on a cent with perfect fields like that.. scary....they must have had a "migraine day" going on..  ..or as Kevin says.."Stop the Madness"... Many of my red or RB large cents came to me with a lacquer coating on them .. added by early collectors to protect the original bright colour in their coppers I've been told.. I don't know what to do with those lacquered cents now.. ICCS added "lacquered" on some of the holders,..but not on all of them.. I don't think that PCGS likes to handle a lacquered cent if they don't have to..but then they might turn to RB in our fairly humid eastern environment.. ...decisions..decisions.. |
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Pillar of the Community
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PCGS will usually body bag a lacquered cent.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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DEVLEC or bosox, does a lacquered cent still retain the original colour or otherwise how is the lacquer recognizable? I have a certain one, as I recall it's a small cent from the 20s, that's a sort of deep auburn colour, noticeably different from the varied brownish tones of the others.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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But you've also mentioned that PCGS now guarantees that their holders will let the red cents go RB and then Brown with time. ..as has been showing up in the PCGS holders.
We've been now told that most of the Landon gem cents looked like they were struck yesterday.."so perfect and yellow bright".. and that's because of some "special wrapping paper". So the wrappings gone now..
Will they now slowly go red and then RB in the future..?
A dry climate helps keep them brighter for a longer time...but I would expect that the oxygen will slowly do it's job in time..
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Here are 2 examples of lacquered cents..You usually can see a shine of a clear coating over the whole surface. It seems to have otherwise keep the copper quite bright over the years..   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Thanks for the pic, just as described - a perfect cent with the shiny appearance of lacquer. Definitely not auburn coloured!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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All red copper will go brown over time. We are just discussing how much time, which is directly tied to the environment in which they are stored. Properly stored (low humidity, no chemical influences) they can stay red for generations.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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DEVLEC, there are plenty of MS-62 large cents out there that are nearly mark free that ICCS held to a 62 grade because of a lack of red in the past. Just another candidate to send to PCGS and flip for a profit these days.
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