2 Bags, 2 Nice Ones and a Cross ...

RGL

Geesh:

Some new grades on a few submissions: 1903 Indian Head Cent (I thought a nice MS-64 RD): Bagged for cleaning; 1909 Lincoln VDB (A solid 65+, wonderous purple blue obverse toning, great eye appeal): Bagged for AT (blows me away); 1938 Lincoln (figured as MS-65 RD): Graded MS-66 RD; 1954 S/D Jefferson (Figured as MS-63): Graded MS-64; and finally, NCG PR-67 1955 Franklin (the club freebie, with a just-miss cameo): crossed as PR-67.

The moral of our story: Do not let nickel collectors submit -- or buy, for that matter -- copper.

FC57Coins

Sounds like you learned a lesson but came out ok in the long run.

Congrats.

Frank

braddick

Purple is a tough color for any of the Services to grade out on copper.
It can be real, but is so easily not I think they all error on the side of being conservative.

RGL

Braddick (or any other copper expert):

Is is possible to AT just one side of a coin? The reverse was full red with a few carbon flecks ... I have seen many proof Jeffs with toning on one side and blast white on the other, so I did not think copper would be any different. But, I am an admitted neophyte on copper coins.

keets

i saw a raw 1921-P lincoln over the weekend that had some awesome purple toning, especially strong on the obv. but apparent on both sides. maybe it's a blessing that i passed. original or AT it was a beauty.

al h.

clackamas

Purple/Blue is a totally legit color on copper and is the first color it turns when it oxidizes. Perhaps on silver its an AT sign but very common on Lincoln's. I just went through an original roll of 34-D Lincoln's that had more than a few coins with the edges starting to turn rainbow purples and blues. The end roll coins are totally purple on one side and red on the other. My opinion is that the PCGS graders don't know what they are talking about and are protecting their buts by not slabbing legit coins because of the grade guarantee. For crying out load who artificially tones a copper cent and a 09VDB to boot. Maybe stripping it down to RD but to purple, cmon.

RGL

Thank you, clack ... Nice to know I likely had a legit coin -- and a pretty one to boot, with lots of eye appeal -- that I spent $15 on to allow some new kids on the block at PCGS to cover their butts ...

TRADERBOBZ

oh a pcgs combo meal ,
im kidding sounds like you did ok!