1933-D RAW Lincoln, New Addition, How does it grade?

MarkW63

Do to a few past threads which led me to digging into my Lincoln collection for comparison coins, my attention was drawn to a need for a few more upgrades
This is one of two I bought, it came today.
The one I had would MAYBE make a VG ???
This one is for sure an upgrade, even if its just a better strike in the date, it does look to have maybe some PMD on the mint mark?
I get its just an old, no real value Lincoln, but! its important in that its position in my collection that it will reside in is one of many links that makes the entire chain.
I paid $7.88 for it, add in shipping, I've got $9.38 out the door (in the door) total!

For general in hand appearance the first two pics are digital handheld camera & window light.
The other pics are digital microscope images using builtin HARSH LED lighting.
No actual mint luster!
The coin is Brown in every aspect!

291fifth

XF

Steven59

XF40

Type2

Nice a lot of meat on it still. 👍👍🏼

coinbuf

XF40 seems right.

ifthevamzarockin

XF-45

oldabeintx

Looks like a very nice XF. A matched circulated album set would look great.

Omegaraptor

XF-40, attractive coin. IIRC this date didn't have striking issues like earlier dates did. This would be a nice album coin for sure.

seanq

I agree with the XF40-45 crowd, an album set full of Lincolns that look like that would be mighty attractive.

Sean Reynolds

MarkW63

@oldabeintx said:
Looks like a very nice XF. A matched circulated album set would look great.

I'm working on it, I'm first moving out everything below F, so I'd have to look again but I'm thinking the coin in the OP and the other one (1919-S) that's not arrived yet will put everything at lest fine or better. In the Memorial series I'd say everything is XF, and above, included all the date ranges of the Proofs! (that's not saying small & large dates). And I started moving backwards with the Wheat proofs, but I'm afraid I'm going to hit a wall (barrier) around 1936/1937 from here they don't seem to even follow close to Red Book prices. So, I'll chip away at the $8.00 to $20.00 upgrades for now.. I did make the 1940 proof threshold!
Thanks for your compliment & your time!

MarkW63

@seanq said:
I agree with the XF40-45 crowd, an album set full of Lincolns that look like that would be mighty attractive.

Sean Reynolds

Thanks for the compliment, I'm working on it.
All my 09's are VF-30 (09-S) or above, for me that's a milestone
It looks like I still have a few VG-8's, but there is at lest two that sense I folder-ed them would likely grade somewhere closer to F (1916 & 1922-D)

MarkW63

For fun,
Here is the coin the upgrade is replacing, you can see why I picked this for the first in this upgrade This one is the very bottom of the barrel, but its did its job in that it filled the position until I could get an upgrade for it
30 years ago if you had looked into my Lincoln albums you would have seen a bunch marked MD (Metal Detecting Finds) boy that was the pits All those are LONG GONE! even though some were hard digs.

MarkW63

Installed to its rightful place
EDIT!! I just checked the 2021 Red Book for this coin in EF-40 $12.00 I got a better deal than I thought.
Looks good right under the EF-40 1931-S
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ricko

Nice cent... Looks like an XF45 to me.... Well done at that price ... Cheers, RickO

WAYNEAS

It is an XF45 to me.
It is a nice-looking coin with no crud.
Wayne

Meltdown

That's the heart of coin collecting right there. Looks like fun!

BuffaloIronTail

I thought about AU-50, but am comfortable with XF-45.

Pete

MarkW63

@Meltdown said:
That's the heart of coin collecting right there. Looks like fun!

According to a video I watched the other day that talked about coin collecting history in general, he stated that the hobby really took off when those labeled hole punched boards come about, he said those forever changed the hobby.
My middle brother has an unfinished Lincoln cent collection that him and a friend of his started working on back in the mid 60's.
That's where I got the interest from. He, did have the nickel, dime, & quarter folders too, none where complete, and when the Silver price went through the ROOF, he pulled all the silver and sold it (No Key Dates Of Course)
He also metal detects and he hunts for silver, well all three of us brothers detect for the silver coins.
He, really lost interest filling the folders, but I know he still has the Lincoln collection so, all the cents I pull for an upgrade I let him go through them to see if he can use them in his collection, and he's glad to get them too, so I've helped him fill some hole in his collect, several that I've gave him where upgrades to his, I know because what he don't use he gives them back, what he replaces I get ones back with that little green edge around them
Thanks for dropping in

MarkW63

The 1919-S I've got ordered should be here today, there was way more of them minted. From what I could see of it, it should grade better than the 33-D it looked to have what some call a "Full Bow Tie" maybe it'll make AU ?? When I get it and I get some pictures of it I'll run it across the forum for a grades opinion!