Cmon, are these Lincolns cleaned or dipped?

Ogden

Maybe I'm skitish but with the scans this seller has, the color doesn't look right. The 1909 looks OK, but looking at all the early Lincolns they all look the same. I would welcome any insight.

Thanks
OgdenLink

indianabyron

hmmmmm I would have to say freshly scrubbed washed dipped. And then slabbed. But its hard to tell for sure because the scans arnt the best and they sure arnt very close up but judging by the almost same color from one coin to the next id have to say yes they were very baddly treated





Byron

Ogden

Thanks Indiana! The color just didn't look right. Unfortunately I have some that look an awful lot like these and they came back cleaned!! I sure appreciate another opinion.

Ogden

originalisbest

Scrub-a-dub-dub! Avoid like the plague.

dorkkarl

pass

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stujoe

I have seen scans (and I think those are scans and not digital pictures) wash out lustre and make a coin look flat and oddly colored before. Would I bid on them? Nope, not if I don't know the seller because all I can go by is the picture adn the picture doesn't look right.

dddangerousdan

Every one of them is the same color. Its a matched set

NOT

DAN

coppercoins

Scans do often completely misrepresent the true surfaces and luster of a coin - repeating myself from many times past, scans are no good for coins - period. Having said that, I would want to buy something cheap first (assuming a good return policy) to see the quality of what he has. Only then I might consider something more valuable.

Shocker

The guy has perfect feedback. That has to account for something. But if you look at the shiny 22-D in XF, it's fairly obvious, even to my untrained eye.

hughesm1

I looked at his auctions a couple days ago, and the pix of those Lincolns made my stomach turn.

mr1931S

I looked at a few of the images.Yeah,they all look like they've been shined and scrubbed.Stay away from these.He'll sell these to newbies but they're not even worth half of what he'll get for some of them.

The '24-D starting at $117 has no bids on it yet.Doesn't even look uncirculated to me.Looks like a fine or so that's been shined...worth about $5.I wouldn't even pay him that for it,however.