Is this a 1916 proof lincoln cent?

[Proof__Coins20-migration]

Please reply. Here are the pictures:

[gmarguli]

Near impossible to tell based on those pictures, but the strike doesn't look bold enough for me to say it is a proof.

[Proof__Coins20-migration]

Now look at the pictures.

[kryptonitecomics]

Looks like a normal business strike to me...the strike at the rim doesn't look strong enough to me to have a chance at being a proof.

[chinook]

This is a pic of a 1916 MPL. Notice the wide, flat rims and the near perfect strike. Every detail in Lincoln's beard is visible. Also look at the textured fields. I think this coin was one of the first struck as I have never seen a MPL with more texture. As the coins were struck the dies would wear and many MPLs have more of a satin appearance.

 

[ldhair]

That's a great coin chinook.

What a strike.

If I'm thinking right the mint reworked the die for the 1916 matte proof. Maybe it's just me but I don't see a lot of 16s. When I do the detail is great but the color is usually ugly. Chinook, your coin has it all. Beautiful.

[chinook]

Thanks Larry.

 

Your right the mint did rework the dies. Thats why so may business strikes look so good. I think this date confuses many people.

 

I still havent mastered the pics on this coin. It is really a yellow coin with green imbedded very deeply. I love it for how textured the fields look. Gives it a very bold look.

[Buffalo_Pete]

It's a proof alright.

 

It has those broad, flat, wire rims that give it away.

 

In 1916 the whole obverse for Lincolns was re-worked. It was the last time anything was done with the master hub until it was scrapped after the 1968 coins were made.

[MarkFeld]

Proof__Coins20, neither the strike nor the rims are indicative of a Proof. If you keep asking enough people on enough forums, someone will probably tell you that the coin you posted is a Proof. It is not, however.

[TomB]

Proof__Coins20, neither the strike nor the rims are indicative of a Proof. If you keep asking enough people on enough forums, someone will probably tell you that the coin you posted is a Proof. It is not, however.

Mark, that is a beautiful response. I had been sitting here with my father-in-law when I opened this thread and I told him that there were about six threads started in regard to this coin, between the PCGS and NGC boards, and that I only responded to the original thread at PCGS to mention that this was not a proof. Then, we read your post and I couldn't help but laugh!

[Buffalo_Pete]

My response was to the second picture when I said PROOF.

 

I don't think the picture that started this thread is one.

 

Pete

[Proof__Coins20-migration]

Proof__Coins20, neither the strike nor the rims are indicative of a Proof. If you keep asking enough people on enough forums, someone will probably tell you that the coin you posted is a Proof. It is not, however.

Mark, that is a beautiful response. I had been sitting here with my father-in-law when I opened this thread and I told him that there were about six threads started in regard to this coin, between the PCGS and NGC boards, and that I only responded to the original thread at PCGS to mention that this was not a proof. Then, we read your post and I couldn't help but laugh!

 

Thanks guys for the information, sorry that I posted on more than one thread, I won't do that next time.