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MrShack33, Your coin is an early strike business strike coin not a proof, IMHO. If you feel the need to send it in, choose a TPG you trust and please post a full slab photo after you get it back from the TPG. Also, please properly crop your photos before posting them, we only need to see the coin not the background, thanks. John1  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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MrShack33 -- You have the coin in-hand and can view it at any angle, under any lighting source. You can use magnification on the fly. All we have are your photos. If you feel your coin is as you state, consider sending it to a reputable third party grading service. If you do, please share the outcome with us. Thanks.
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 to the Community! This is a business strike coin from the Philadelphia mint and is not a proof! However, it looks like you are bent with determinition that it isn't, so you might as well spend the 100$ in fees and postage to get it graded by one of the top tier grading services - PCGS or NGC. (No need to go "cheap" with ANACS!) We tried to inform you.  Edited by westernsky
06/02/2023 09:58 am
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@Mr. Shack - I don't usually do this, but if you are so completely sure that you have a 'S' less 1974 Proof Cent, then send it in for grading. All I ask ia that when it comes back, please post it here again for all of us to see. However, that said, I believe that this is a business strike cent. You have it in hand, we can only see what you present to us. I have noted that on your coin that there is a bit of a Ridge Ring forming near the rim under 'God We' (something you will not see on a proof coin.) |
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Not remotely similar to a proof finish.
Edited by Coinfrog
06/02/2023 08:44 am
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I didn't say it was a dcam proof here's another strike from the San Francisco mint  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Please, send it in for evaluation/grading. Eager to learn what the outcome will be. Thanks.
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Here's side by side  |
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Those are both business strikes. Neither is a proof. Proofs need squared rims and mirrored fields. These examples show neither.
To complicate things, San Francisco minted proof and business strike Lincoln cents from 1968 to 1975. No S on a 1974 business strike means it was minted in Philly. Even if it was not, you would never know it; unless it was a proof, which this is not.
For what it is worth, San Francisco did strike cents without mint marks from 1978 to 1983. Unless you grabbed it off the press yourself, you would never know in which mint a 1978-1983 cent was struck. But they were still not proofs.
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Please crop photos before posting, thanks.
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I'm telling you guys this is the real deal   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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With the edge pics you provided, it would appear that this coin was encased at some point, which is why it has the flat, high edge/rim.
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Pillar of the Community
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What you have is a business strike that was struck with fresh dies. Nothing indicates it's a proof.
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Pillar of the Community
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MrShack33, something else just came to mind. You do understand that just because a coin was struck in San Fransisco, does not make it a proof, right? They minted business strikes as well.
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