55-D Toner BIE

rmpsrpms

I'm going through a bunch of BU rolls I have purchased over the last few years. I just finished going through the 55-D's and in the last roll I found some nice toners, some with BIEs. Here is one of them:

mannie gray

Very nice ! :)I like Lincoln toners where the bust is toned darker than the devices.
I also like the two-tone field color...lemony yellow on the left to orange on gthe right.
I love it.

ironmanl63

Nice looking coin.

Jimnight

Nice 55-D BIE. Also I like the way that cent toned.

BLUEJAYWAY

Nice example. Great crescent toning on reverse. Great pixs.

ricko

Nice catch... I have a bag of '55's, accumulated while looking for the DDO.... never checked for the BIE ... Probably none, since it would have stood out in a scan... Cheers, RickO

BuffaloIronTail

The fields on the coin are just beautiful and mark free. Nice photo job too. 1957-D was another year where there was a lot of B.I.E. Cents made. Quite common actually.

Pete

1630Boston

Very n ice find, congrats

rmpsrpms

@BuffaloIronTail said:
The fields on the coin are just beautiful and mark free. Nice photo job too. 1957-D was another year where there was a lot of B.I.E. Cents made. Quite common actually.

Pete

Thanks Pete!

Looking through 60 BU rolls (from many different purchases) of 55-D, I only found about 15 BIEs. Looking through a similar number of 57-D rolls, I found about 75. Similar qty of 58-D yielded only a handful.

Al21

That looks to be Cohen B325. She has listed over 60 BIEs for the 1955-D

rmpsrpms

@Al21 said:
That looks to be Cohen B325. She has listed over 60 BIEs for the 1955-D

Yes, 325 is a reasonable attribution, but it's a later die stage than described in Cohen, with a crack between the I and B. This looks like it will soon morph into a full IIBIE. Cohen does not note the IB break, so if she was listing this it would probably be B330, but there is already a B328 and B330 not associated with this type, so maybe it could be a B326. That said, B95 looks suspiciously like B325 but with a full-blown IIB. So what I think is that the sequence would be something like B325-This coin-B95. I don't have a B95 to compare, so without it I'd have to call this coin a B326. If I had a B95 to prove it was an even later stage of B325, I'd probably want to rename B325 as B90, and this coin as B92.

Here's an animation of B325 with this coin to compare. Note that Cohen is very explicit that the top of the BIE on B325 is FLAT, while this coin has a small chip where the flat part meets the E. The B325 is very flat as expected, but note it is starting to show the IIB break at the lower left of the B.

BruceS

Nice Animation, that would be a cool idea to do with a lot of die progressions.

rmpsrpms

@BruceS said:
Nice Animation, that would be a cool idea to do with a lot of die progressions.

Thanks. I've done quite a few. Some of them are here:

http://www.macrocoins.com/animations.html

Others I published in forum posts but have not accumulated them on my website.