What do You do with a Coin like this ? Take a Look Newbies.

Fairlaneman

I'll come back later and tell you what I think should be done.

Ken

airplanenut

Send it to ACG before the L in LIBERTY completely falls off

Lakesammman

Is that an L or a chop mark??

fcloud

Ken,

I don't like the way the second "one" looks. Is this coin modified? I don't think I would send it in--something just does't look right.

Fairlaneman

Shucks you guys are not focused on the intent of this thread. Tell me what you think of this thing and what you would do with it. This sort of follows the theme that another thread has tonight about a problem coin.

Edit to add: No more hints on this.

Ken

redhott

Blue Ribbon and a camel's hair brush to make it look ms 66, if someone buys it ok, if not no great loss

fcloud

It looks as if there is something wrong with the coin. If so, and if it were my coin, I wouldn't sell it to anyone unless they were completely aware that I thought something didn't look right to me. (I have very few Lincolns and don't have anything to compare.) I would rather be wrong and sleep at night.

clw54

Spend it.

airplanenut

Well, I wouldn't be buying it... it does have that "look"

Jeremy

sinin1

I was originally thinking matte proof that had been recolored.

After seeing the reverse and the parallel scratch lines across one cent - I'm thinking whizzed coin that has been recolored.

Now what would I do? - not bid unless I could get it real cheap.

Maybe in person it looks alright, but the photos do not look like original coin, probably been messed with.

AbesNeighbor

Obviously a cleaned or whizzed coin. Dirt is still evident around the letters.

I'd give it to a kid so that he/she could put it in their whitman folder

Topdollarpaid

If I were you I would spend it !

Who wants a cleaned 1910 cent anyways

Fairlaneman

Abe has hit it on the Head with this coin.

Only problem is I will not even give the coin away in the shape it is in, opps was in, tonight. The good intention of giving it to a kid could come back and bite some other collector down the line years from now just as it did to me. In this day and age of computer buying and scans these things get passed around the country easily. The only thing to do is take your lumps and make sure a future collector does not receive the coin again. Well maybe a collector might receive it again but for sure he or she will not pay a 10 dollar bill for it. My guess is they probably would not pay 2 bits for it.



Learned how to spot Whizzed Coins from a Very Honest Dealer and learned what to do with them from him also.

Ken

DHeath

Outstanding strike, and a couple of interesting cuds on the reverse.

airplanenut

What the @#$!@ That's a pretty well doctored image!

Fairlaneman

Thats the Old Phillips Head Cud.

marcalan84

I specialize in Lincolns......but I swear I have never seen chopmarked Lincolns before now (this is a first). Is David Hall going to start that Registry now as well (Chopmarked Lincolns)? Geeeeeez.....they have got to be rarer than those stupid ole Chopmarked Trade Dollars ......and they just got a registry of their own!!

Anyway....enough laughs. I have seen many raw Lincolns that look like that over the years. Back when I collected some raw 15 or so years ago....I ended up with a few like that (I didn't know any better....and lucky for me I never spent much money on coins then). There was quite a few dealers who would sell "cleaned copper". Alot of them are small local dealers......but there used to be a few large East Coast dealers who used to sell them "raw". I still remember the names of a few of those companies. I am not sure that they exist anymore.

MastaHanky

On the plus side, at least we got you away from those silly dimes of yours.