Scans of Cankeye's RAINBOW toned '58 Lincolns and '58 Washington.

Russ

Enjoy.

Russ, NCNE

supercoin

Wow, wicked wheaties!

ClarkOfKent

Hey! You're supposed to list the grades!

Those Lincolns are beautiful... are the colors really that bright in person?

ccrdragon

Love the wheaties - don't care for the washington at all (too splotchy for me...)

Great job with the pix also!

Clankeye

Hello--
First, a big thank you to Russ for photographing the coins for me! He did a great job capturing the color on these coins, and that was a tough job, because the colors are intense. It was a pleasure to meet Russ in person. An added bonus was that Dan. C was in the shop while I was there and he also is a great guy. Good to meet them both.

The coins are three coins that I took out of a 58 mint set that I found recently. They are all 58-D's. The quarter graded PCGS67. The top cent graded 65RB and has a population of 1/1. The bottom cent graded 64RB and has a population of 4/2. I wanted to share a picture of them with you all.

Thanks again to Russ for making it possible!

Clankeye

TomB

I like the colors on all three coins very much, and, even though I realize the grades have already been listed, the quarter looked like a slam-dunk MS67 from the scan. I think I like the color of the lower graded Lincoln a little more than the higher graded coin. Nice pieces!

kieferscoins

Awesome, Russ rates right up there with the best coin photographers.

Cameron Kiefer

quarterjack

Good job Russ! Clankeye, very nice pieces. , Congratulations!


Dave

IrishMike

Like I been telling you that quarter is real ugly, send it to me and I will take if off your hands.

shylock

All beautiful, and I absolutely love the first 58-D Lincoln (sigh).

lincolnSence

great pics! Who knows, maybe this toning thing has more to it than I thought (now that I see it on some real coins)

Thanks for sharing.

Russ

Oh, and just for grins, here's the reverse of one of the Franklins:



I'm not a big Frankie fan, but I really like the way this one looks.

Russ, NCNE

BNE

Is it possible that the Lincoln reverses go with the other obverses? The coloring looks more similar in Pics 1 & 4, and in 2 & 3.

Beautiful coins, all!

rikker

Great Pictures,Russ and nice coins. Just 2 questions on the quarter was it toned like that when it was graded, and isn,t difficult to grade a coin that has toning like that?

Russ

<< <i>Is it possible that the Lincoln reverses go with the other obverses? >>



BNE,

Nope. They are correct.



<< <i>Just 2 questions on the quarter was it toned like that when it was graded, and isn,t difficult to grade a coin that has toning like that? >>



Rikker,

Yep, it was toned when sent in. He just got these back from PCGS. He pulled them from a set he bought. As for the difficulty of grading one like that, I don't know. I couldn't grade one even if it wasn't toned.

Russ, NCNE

Clankeye

rikker--
Yes, the coin was toned like that before grading. The coin came straight out of an original mint set. It's been sitting in the cardboard card that it came from the mint in for 44 years. The toning is a result of the exposure of the coin to the cardboard and paper holders the mint used.
Is it harder to grade a toned coin? Depends on who you ask. But, I'm sure the graders at PCGS have enough experience in the matter to feel confident about doing it.

Carl

Clankeye

Rikker--
This is what some of the other coins in the set look like. I have not sent them in for grading. And actually, I doubt I will.

Note: Wow. My first posting of a picture within a thread! Thanks Russ for the picture and Robertpr for telling me how to do it. And Airplanenut too, who tried to tell me how, but I just wasn't getting it.

robertpr

Cool, great coins. And even though I'm not a copper fan those have to be some of the coolest pennies I've ever seen!

DanC

It was a real pleasure to meet Clankeye. An interesting and enjoyable experience.
A real gentleman, and it was an enjoyable afternoon.

The cameraderie, and really cool coin stuff renews my spirit a bit.

Thanks for the pep talk, I'm going to try to focus on coins and the joys of collecting and sharing information about it.

Clankeye

That's good to hear Dan. Nobody should leave this hobby. It's just too much fun sometimes!

Carl

mdwoods

Beeyouteefull Lincolns and Quarter Clankeye. You don't see many Lincolns with that kind of toning. Great job photographing the coins Russ (as usual) mdwoods

Dave99B

Eye candy! I'm blind!

Thanks for the light show -

Dave

Blade

Clank,
You may find those are worth a pretty penny (pun intended). Brian at Texas Bullion Traders had some similarly toned 1940's wheats. The ones with that much color (especially the green iridescence) go for about $400 each. The grades (MS64RB-66RB) had little bearing on the price - it was all about color.

gsaguy

Nice coins Clank...now some of our recent conversations take on a new meaning.

GSAGUY

Gilbert

Clankeye,

Very nice and just the right year. I'm always interested in 1958 coinage. How long did it take to find such nice coins (how many mint sets did you have to inspect), because, nowadays they seem impossible? BTW, what's the current pop on a '58-D Washington in MS67?

TomB

Since Blade has brought up a point about the potential value of these coins I would like to respectfully disagree with him. I say this because I, too, saw the Lincoln Wheat cents in question at the Baltimore show that both Bryan and Adrian were selling. The coins that they were selling were far more colorful than these. I say this because these coins are flooded with light, it is evident in the pictures and, therefore, the color is not nearly as vibrant as the other coins in question. Also, the other coins were from a non-Mint Set year, I believe 1940. This makes them much more scarce since many fewer would likely tone in that manner. Lastly, the '58-D Lincoln is the nicest toned Lincoln, on average, of any I have seen. The paper that came with these D Mint Sets was great for toning coins and the copper just goes nuts. I would think that the P mint Lincolns did not tone as well.

Clankeye

Well, that may be true Tom, but here are a couple things to consider. Flooded with light or not in the photos, that's what these coins look like, and they are beautiful. And whether or not this date is harder to find... the fact is with the 58-D 65RB... there is currently one certified by PCGS. With the 64 there are four. So if you happen to be looking for coins like these, certified by PCGS, in that grade designation... they are not going to be easy to come across. If someone does know where to get them, and they want to make them, that's a different story.
I never made any claims for these as wonder coins. Just coins of interest I wanted to share with board members. Their actual monetary worth is probably a very gray area.

TomB

Howdy Clankeye-

I hope that you didn't take my post as being aggressive or negative toward you or your coins, it wasn't meant that way. I preface this response with that since I can't tell the "tone" that you are using in your response. I meant no ill at all.

Anyway, I believe your coins look like the images, however, I also saw the other coins in question and believe I know a little about the toned "look" of coins and, in my opinion only, the 1940(?) coins from Baltimore were in a different class. Also, I believe your populations for these coins but would caution to view them with a grain of salt. After all, how many people are likely to send in an MS65RB '58-D Lincoln? What they are worth is whatever you can get for them, my disagreement with Blade was that comparing these coins, from this year, with those that I had seen in Baltimore was like comparing apples and oranges. That's all.