Modern Junk ?

Hi coindexter

just finding a zincolin without hits is a problem , this coin has no hits ,no distractions , I have others from these rolls which are better , but even with the plating splits this one is a conditional rarity for the modern lincolns .

its just the first one I photographed , the others will follow as I get time to take the photo's and take a little more care in my set up .

I just got excited that I found a few exceptional grade EDS lincolns with no problems that I could not wait to post the photo.

good eye elimist , so far I have identified three different reverse dies and two different obverse dies in these rolls .

I didn't mention it because I didn't want to seem well obsessive

even though my wife accuses me of being unreachable for hours on end from across the room

even though I tell her to leave a note on the refrigerator post it board if its something important !

Early Die State ,,(IE refering to the smallest details on the coin which are the first to soften and the last to fill by a less than adequate pressure when the coin is struck ) with the numbers of coins which are struck in the modern lincoln series for example the 1990-D has a mintage of 4,922,894,533 ,, thats a lot of coins and the dies are used for a great deal of time only being changed should they crack or fall apart ,get ground down from polishing or some other form of destruction the majority of the coins which we see in circulation are less than perfect to say the least and if you have never searched the LMC for above average pieces to add to a high grade collection a person can go through thousands of coins to find an MS-65 with most only reaching a dismal 63 .with an occasional 64 thrown in .

finding a matched set of early dies for both obverse and reverse multiplies that problem into the realm of torture to the LMC collector .

so coins like these with EDS dies both obverse and reverse and not bag marked to oblivion is an exception to the rule !

the steps on the reverse of these coins are an especially fine detail , and to find full steps from top to bottom and side to side without hits is truely an exception !

Is it just my old eyes, or is the "Liberty" doubled?
At least parts of it...

Well I just broke my Panasonic camera. The auto zoom kept out when I put a magnifying glass in front of it. Now it's froze up. Ops. But my Samsung 3mp camera cell phone takes better picture anyway take a look.

That's not an EDS, probably middle die state. It shows die wear around LIBERTY and the rims.

I swear the Mint fudged the production figures for that year... I must find a dozen 1959-Ps in nice red condition for every early 90's D-mint LMC that i'd even be willing to grade above a VF.

Quantity over quality, quite.