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Pillar of the Community
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This one is super rare, and quite hard to see in an image to pick. But a fellow CCFer made the spot and gave me the green light to go for it. It is cleaned, but given the overall condition and strike for the year I'll take it anyday. I'm going to send it off to ANACS shortly. 1923-S/S Lincoln Wheat cent - RPM-001    |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Nice RPM @tb, with that initial punch spread nicely to the East.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Not bad at all. As usual, I'll need to re-evaluate my stash of '23 S pieces--those having a sharp mint mark.
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United States
218 Posts |
It's hard to see without magnification, but it is a nice example! Gorgeous coin too in general.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nice pickup, nice RPM!  Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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United States
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nice find TB - does this one also have the touch of the wood too?
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks for a kind comments! And yes, this one has a little bit of woody going on. Actually makes seeing the RPM a bit tougher as there is a lot of color change going on with the coin's surface. I don't mind an attractive woody, but would rather have the variety coins on a uni-color planchet.
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Pillar of the Community
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TB, quick comment on calling this a Woody. So a few of my ground find wheats have conserved this way. They may complete in brilliant fashion but have the Zebra effect as shown in yours. Personally I find them visually appealing.
I've always chalked it up to some random effect of conservation. More specifically, I've concluded that the striations were the removal of the oxidation layer that simply exposed the true color of the metal underneath. I'll confess that I know little about how oxidation lays down or why it would come off in strips but now you have me wondering if they might actually be Woodys.
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12/17/2023 11:01 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Meant to add, great, crisp acquisition. Gotta love those kind of strong strikes.
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Pillar of the Community
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The woody effect, like this with small tiger stripes all over, can be tough to grade. In some cases it makes the coin look like it was hit with a rotary brush, something that has been done to some coins as well. I've had a couple perfect woody coins come back as cleaned.
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Very nice, I can definately see that!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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TB, if you don't mind I'll take some pics of a few of my conservations that turned out similar and post here. Would appreciate your thoughts on whether they may be woodies.
BTW, never sent any in for grading - these were just ground finds that I conserved.
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Pillar of the Community
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DOCC
I don't know how your specific ground conditions affect lincolns. Where I detected, there was often a leaching effect. Part of the alloys, over time,would transfer out of the coin and into the ground. This often could be seen as a dark stain in the earth surrounding a long undisturbed coin.
This leaching from the coin would at times leave a porus surface or at times leave a hard green original surface over a porus interior coin.
I would think a coin that would tone to a woodie might have that appearance accentuated by leaching.
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Posted 12/17/2023 07:31 am
