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Leather texture 1914-D cent?

gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
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For lack of a better word this coin looks to have a leather look.Is this an alloy
mixture? The reverse is fine.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,763 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Either a funky picture or a coin covered with tiny pit marks.
    TD
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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Forgot to mention.It's in a PCGS holder as MS 64 RB.
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    looks like the saturation has been played with.....trying to brighten the coins image. Holder looks weird.
  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭
    I think it's just a funky picture and very pixelated.

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  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    A 1914-D Satin Finish Lincoln... what am I missing? image
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  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I think it's just a funky picture and very pixelated. >>



    Looks like the contrast was juiced a bit.
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,838 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd say that it is a combination of a played with picture and the color that red 1914-D cents take. The "real thing" when it comes to 1914-D cents is kind of brick red, not the bright red you might think. It has to do with the solution the Denver mint used to clean the planchets.

    But I seriously doubt that the coin looks like this "in hand." I think that some software did some weird stuff to the pixels.
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  • gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The reverse looks fine to me.
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    When you study the image of the slab, the clear area....the differences in the manipulation of the digital image are evident.


    I dont know if youre considering buying this coin...but Id CERTAINLY want to look at in hand, with the loupe first, and make sure the return privilage is rock solid.

    If those ARE pits and in the surface of the obverse, I dont see how it is TPG slabbed. I can easily see those pits happening from some long ago collector swabbing the surface with an acid, or a cyanide solution...to brighten it a bit. LOTS of funny thing were (are) done to copper coins.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    The obv is heavily pixelated and has a lot of color noise.
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  • drwstr123drwstr123 Posts: 7,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Compare the color of the plastic, this hasn't been manipulated:
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  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The obv is heavily pixelated and has a lot of color noise. >>

    Mark, can this be from excessive sharpening?
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    The pixelation can certainly be a sharpening issue and will tend to make th enoise look worse. The color noise - under exposed and over contrasted in post-processing?
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