Hello - I was hoping for an opinion on this 1983 LMC. If it’s worth slabbing

Dreverett1

Here’s a photo 1983 LMC

Moxie15

Welcome,

no, that one is not worth grading. looks like too many issues in the copper plating.

Dreverett1

Thanks

291fifth

If you even considered having that slabbed you need to slow down, put away the wallet and learn a lot more about the coins you want to collect. The coin you picture is a common date Lincoln with plating problems that are often seen during that period that is worth exactly one cent.

Hemispherical

Welcome @Dreverett1 to the forums.

As previously posted that cent has problems and is worth face value, i.e., one cent.

Read the following on plating blisters:

http://www.error-ref.com/blisteredplating/

Enjoy the hobby!

RogerB

No.
...and it's a "Lincoln cent" not a "LMC."

grip

I was looking for a lunar module control J/K

MFeld

@RogerB said:
No.
...and it's a "Lincoln cent" not a "LMC."

And It's just a "cent", not a "Lincoln cent" anymore than it is a "LMC".

jmlanzaf

@MFeld said:

@RogerB said:
No.
...and it's a "Lincoln cent" not a "LMC."

And It's just a "cent", not a "Lincoln cent" anymore than it is a "LMC".

Well, to be fair it is a Lincoln Memorial Cent. I don't know why LMC is any more or less appropriate than LS or WLH or any other abbreviation that gets used around here.

JBK

To the OP - if you want to collect high grade moderns that is fine, but it is probably best to buy them already slabbed. Grading fees for an individual submitter will eat you alive - the big dealers get a lower bulk rate. Even then the coins sometimes sell on the secondary market for less than the grading fees.

RogerB

@jmlanzaf said:

@MFeld said:

@RogerB said:
No.
...and it's a "Lincoln cent" not a "LMC."

And It's just a "cent", not a "Lincoln cent" anymore than it is a "LMC".

Well, to be fair it is a Lincoln Memorial Cent. I don't know why LMC is any more or less appropriate than LS or WLH or any other abbreviation that gets used around here.

It's just unneeded and confusing verbiage - and "cent" by itself if fine, too.

calgolddiver

NO ... +1

JBK

RogerB said:
It's just unneeded and confusing verbiage - and "cent" by itself if fine, too.

Let's agree to just call it a "penny" so we call all be upset.

ricko

@Dreverett1... Welcome aboard.... answers above are what I would also say.... Cheers, RickO