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Help me grade this Lincoln...

MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited December 4, 2018 9:30AM in U.S. Coin Forum

Please & thank you. I don't know much about Lincolns. XF maybe?
These first two shots are accurate for color, the angled shots are just to help show off the skin.
I think the coin is original, unmessed with.
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    Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I agree XF. However, I'd price it as an AU-53-55 and you've got a shot at an AU-50 at a TPGS.

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    david3142david3142 Posts: 3,691 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’d call it an AU53.

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    coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 12,487 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It is technically an AU50 (from the pic I see some luster around the edges) which could market grade as high as AU55 imo.

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    ashelandasheland Posts: 24,476 ✭✭✭✭✭

    AU55

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    ParadisefoundParadisefound Posts: 8,623 ✭✭✭✭✭

    AU50

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    bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,359 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rub on obverse high points. AU55

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,191 ✭✭✭✭✭

    AU 50 or 53 by current standards. XF45 by the standards of 35-40 years ago.

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mid grade AU BN....Nice old cent....Cheers, RickO

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    ashelandasheland Posts: 24,476 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In my humble opinion, that's about as nice as they can possibly look for the grade!

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    WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 7,045 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agree with 50-53, but overall a perfect cent for tough date IMHO.

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    MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks all for the comments, better than I had thought. This was part of a few hundred lincolns purchased at an estate sale a couple years back... I just recently re-discovered it looking through some odds & ends.

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    seanqseanq Posts: 8,823 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I could go with either XF45 or AU50 depending on the luster.

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    drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My Magic 8 Ball says AU-53.

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    BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,745 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:
    I agree XF. However, I'd price it as an AU-53-55 and you've got a shot at an AU-50 at a TPGS.

    Nice strike for a 26-S Lincoln. 53-55 sounds right to me.

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,820 ✭✭✭✭✭

    AU-50, maybe 53. NGC thinks its' necessary to add "brown" to the description for reasons known mostly by them.

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    CCGGGCCGGG Posts: 1,267 ✭✭✭✭✭

    53

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    ColonialcoinColonialcoin Posts: 887 ✭✭✭✭✭

    From the images it looks like a very choice XF, maybe even AU. Very nice 26-S!

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    PTVETTERPTVETTER Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Colonialcoin said:
    From the images it looks like a very choice XF, maybe even AU. Very nice 26-S!

    I have to agree but in todays more likely an AU

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    1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I agree with the AU. Its a nice strike for the date and mint.

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    mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice one.
    No issues, nice color, 53, possibly bump to 55 for "originality."

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    lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 9,361 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd pay AU50 money for this cent all day long... very nice!

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    Josh32Josh32 Posts: 138 ✭✭✭

    At least XF45. Maybe AU, hard to tell if there is luster present in the pictures.

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    originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭

    Appealing AU-50, and unmessed with as you note.

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    SoldiSoldi Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice EF 45 congrats. Lincolns like that do something for me. A kind of a youthful love of coins feeling. Congrats

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    KccoinKccoin Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    looks 45. maybe 50 to 53 if you have luster there

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    JBKJBK Posts: 17,520 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice original condition, great pics.

    But whoever prepared the hub/dies must have been hung over. The spacing of the letters in GOD is uneven, and WE is crooked. Never noticed before but must be standard on these Lincolns.

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    abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Chocolate brown crispy silk dark. MS money on a spent coin? No? Yes! (Maybe, right?)

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    metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am in XF45 camp. Nice Lincoln!

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    RittenhouseRittenhouse Posts: 677 ✭✭✭✭

    Old time XF, may AU today. We should change the circ grades to FU for Fomerly Uncirculated. Wouldn't you buy a coin with FU2 on the holder?

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