Help me grade this Lincoln...
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Please & thank you. I don't know much about Lincolns. XF maybe?
These first two shots are accurate for color, the angled shots are just to help show off the skin.
I think the coin is original, unmessed with. 
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I agree XF. However, I'd price it as an AU-53-55 and you've got a shot at an AU-50 at a TPGS.
I’d call it an AU53.
It is technically an AU50 (from the pic I see some luster around the edges) which could market grade as high as AU55 imo.
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Rub on obverse high points. AU55
AU 50 or 53 by current standards. XF45 by the standards of 35-40 years ago.
Mid grade AU BN....Nice old cent....Cheers, RickO
In my humble opinion, that's about as nice as they can possibly look for the grade!
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Agree with 50-53, but overall a perfect cent for tough date IMHO.
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Thanks all for the comments, better than I had thought. This was part of a few hundred lincolns purchased at an estate sale a couple years back... I just recently re-discovered it looking through some odds & ends.
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I could go with either XF45 or AU50 depending on the luster.
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My Magic 8 Ball says AU-53.
Nice strike for a 26-S Lincoln. 53-55 sounds right to me.
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AU-50, maybe 53. NGC thinks its' necessary to add "brown" to the description for reasons known mostly by them.
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From the images it looks like a very choice XF, maybe even AU. Very nice 26-S!
I have to agree but in todays more likely an AU
I agree with the AU. Its a nice strike for the date and mint.
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Nice one.
No issues, nice color, 53, possibly bump to 55 for "originality."
I'd pay AU50 money for this cent all day long... very nice!
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At least XF45. Maybe AU, hard to tell if there is luster present in the pictures.
Appealing AU-50, and unmessed with as you note.
Nice EF 45 congrats. Lincolns like that do something for me. A kind of a youthful love of coins feeling. Congrats
looks 45. maybe 50 to 53 if you have luster there
Nice original condition, great pics.
But whoever prepared the hub/dies must have been hung over. The spacing of the letters in GOD is uneven, and WE is crooked. Never noticed before but must be standard on these Lincolns.
Chocolate brown crispy silk dark. MS money on a spent coin? No? Yes! (Maybe, right?)
I am in XF45 camp. Nice Lincoln!
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Old time XF, may AU today. We should change the circ grades to FU for Fomerly Uncirculated. Wouldn't you buy a coin with FU2 on the holder?