RonnieR131

Good idea. A lucky mom! I'm going to start doing the same thing with some pieces I have, for family birthdays etc...

Not much to do lately, just stay at home, every day. Thanks for posting, it's beautiful, I just keep staring at it. You know a little more than nuttin, you know an eye catching coin when you see one. 

Found an interesting bookmarker in the ledger, at least I know someone had it open since WWII. Which also happens to be my garage passcode if you need in there for any reason,Once again, pic taken with cellphone other than mine, didn't realize it was getting 'saved' in the wrong direction, hope you needed to pop your neck muscles from sitting around all week.

I'd JB Weld an s under the date, shoe polish it with light brown, and put it on Etsy with all the others. Wait, no I wouldn't, Nice Lincoln though, in really good condition.

Thanks, here I go..

Searching the web for scales, unsure. I figured I might as well ask the people that helped me get this far. Which ones are recommended by ya'll? $20 - $50 or thereabouts. If it takes $100, so be it, just would rather not..Right now I'm just doing beginner stuff, a truck load of 82 d small date pennies etc. to weigh, but might as well get ready for when I progress. Thanks.

Anyway, will have new computer in a week, can give good cropped pics all in one entry then, but you get an idea with these. Also, the first ledger, that my oldest son says he borrowed, (oh boy), has a piece that sounds like the San Francisco mint sending coins by wagon to be loaded on the Union Pacific RR, from there to Omaha NE, from there to Kansas City Ks, from there to St Louis, and charges discussed along with hiring Pinkerton Agency to help guard the train account Bell Starr and her gang had been robbing trains in Kansas and Missouri and then going back into Indian Territory (Oklahoma) to lay low. That said, this is a coin collectors forum, so I'll put it in WYNK later on, a few GOOD pics with clarity, and keep it brief yet informative and interesting, I hope. Brief for sure, no one prob gives a D but me and I get carried away. Later....      (WHIZZED!!  That's one negative nasty looking word isn't it).

Having heck with someone else's phone, one at a time pics, upload issues.

Temporarily misplaced that ledger, here is the second ledger continued after that one.

Yes indeed, now that I KNOW the two coins were whizzed and cleaned, it's so obvious to see what I couldn't before. The whizzed coin, a horrible result I can see with the naked eye. The cleaned gold, a little more difficult, because I see comparison photos of like coins that weren't cleaned that look cleaned to me, especially around the dates, lettering, and the devices. I narrowed it down to small areas deep in the devices that weren't dirty after all like I had previously thought, they were natural 'peach' toning like the entire coin probably should have. I saw no rubbing etc., just a 'too pretty' piece in the fields. Cleaned coins are a no no in a collectors world, but cleaned gold sure is a stunning sight otherwise. LOL Thanks again JB, and everyone. Done with all of this, going to fold up and read and study about die cracks for a few weeks, so I won't have to post "Is This" over and over. Enjoyed!!

Thank you JB. Good recommendation. Also, starting to wonder about the 1867 $3 gold. If it was enclosed in the ledger for a minimum of 60 yrs., since 1958, I would think it would have some toning on it. It had none, it was shiney, although my cellphone pics don't show it. Oh well, no one is alive that I can follow up on the story. It was in a little cloth bag with a drawstring on top, I probably should be thankful no environmental damage.

forgot to add, 1955 doubled die is XF45, cellphone wouldn't download anymore pics. 

TfxGot my first four ever submitted returned. Good news/Bad news.             1855 $3 gold__Good news_its not fake_ bad news, some cowboy was playing poker in Dodge City Kansas and spilled his beer all over the card table and wiped my coin off with his shirtail.            Then the 1883 5 cent, whizzed, just bad news.     Good news, 1955 doubled die is real, better grade than expected, I'm happy.  Good news, 1867 $3 is real, hoping for AU58, but they wre right on target, 55 is what it is, I'm happy. Now what to do with the 1855 cleaned coin, AU55-$1250, sell for $900 -$1000, but now cleaned. What do you think, start at $550 to sell and see what happens? Or make jewelry, or what?

Welcome back KH! I think all of the Variety doubles and OMM's with lincolns has peoples hopes up a little high. I can look at a doubling event with a blown up pic that is provided and still not see hardly anything, almost every Lincoln has something going on. I think all of you have done a fine job, and a respectful one as well.  Amazing patience with the barrage of never ending doubling questions. Thanks.

and thank u JKK. Glad ya'll don't charge tuition, I'd have to go get a student loan. 

thank u JB, I've never been able to judge the low 7, even with laying a paper edge across 9 to the 0, the curl in the nine, etc., nothing. What I needed to know was the loop of the nine pointing towards the 7 or the mint mark, plain and simple. Easy for my eyesight, big time saver, and know it for life now. A sincere thanks. Hope I didn't butt in on a thread, but just had to say, FINALLY, I get it.

Melissa, those are the valuable pennies moneywise, but I got change back from a drive thru fast food place last week, at night, and put the 3 little dark chocolate pennies in my shirt pocket, got home and looked at them. There it was, 1931s penny. Can't buy a new Corvette with it, not worth selling much less get graded. But I found it all by myself, and I promise you that penny is more VALUABLE  to me than a $250,000 coin bought at Heritage Auctions by a multi millionaire so he or she can upgrade that date slot in their registry set. I'm new at this numismatic thing as well, but I haven't stopped grinning a week later, because I know I just had the pleasure of experiencing what its all about. I've got a whole lot to learn, but it can't get any better than this!

Glad I saw that Yarm, thanks. Looks like I'll be doing front yard work this week while in self quarantine, watching for the mail delivery. I'm not a procrastinator, just some things I've temporarily put off for 3 or 4 decades.

I had coins shipped back to me on the 20th, I presume by registered mail like they were received, nothing yet. I only insured for $9999 to save a few bucks, starting to wonder. I've got another week of patience left because of the situation, but I've learned another lesson, this one about insuring.

I think it looks as if picked up off a motorcycle repair shop floor, not too good. My son behind me said he likes it and thinks its cool. See if you can sell it G, there's bound to be a 100 more people that perceive its looks just like you, and good luck!

LOL. Thanks kbbpll, I needed that. Might as well get used to "bored" for awhile, I'm quadruple reading all, any new post is great. Thanks for clarifying machine dbling etc., to all use newbies. Later... I gotta see if the SER on the obverse might be a doubled die version.

Finally! Thanks. Exactly the description with pictures we needed. Case closed.