The Dr. Tom Wachtel Collection

Frosty golden tan and light brown with steel brown overtones. A couple puffs of darker steel brown toning (not carbon) on the reverse can help identi

Glossy chocolate brown. Looks perfectly smooth to the unaided eye but a glass reveals traces of very fine roughness, mostly at the second S in STATES

Rather glossy chocolate and steel brown. Smooth and attractive except for a cut on the rim at star 4 that also shows over the opposing TE in UNITED.

Glossy chocolate brown and steel with a couple tiny splashes of lighter brown on the neck. Mint frost shows in protected areas and this cent has nice

Choice glossy light to medium brown with golden tan faded down from mint color in protected areas, especially on the reverse. A beautiful cent, nearl

Choice glossy light to medium chocolate with lighter brown in protected areas. Essentially flawless with light wear on the highpoints and excellent e

Lustrous tan and light steel brown blending to light chocolate brown on the upper part of the reverse. The surfaces are satiny and the notable marks

Frosty steel and olive brown with faint hints of reddish tan faded down from mint color in protected areas around the wreath. Satiny flowline luster

Very attractive lustrous medium steel brown and light chocolate with faint wisps of slightly darker steel brown toning on the reverse. The surfaces a

Glossy mix of medium brown and chocolate with frosty lighter brown and tan in protected areas on the reverse. Smooth and quite attractive. The only

Glossy light chocolate brown and olive. Smooth and very attractive, just lightly worn. There are a few trivial marks including a shallow planchet fl

Sharpness F12 or slightly better but moderately corroded. No marks, but there are a few specks of reddish crud or verdigris at NI in UNITED and TE in

Sharpness near F12 but covered with moderate granularity. No verdigris but there are some very old scratches hidden in the toning on the obverse, mos

Choice lustrous medium brown with slightly darker steel brown toning on the highpoints. A beautiful cent with solid mint state eye appeal, but there

Frosty dark steel with lighter tan in protected areas thanks to an old recoloring. The surfaces are smooth and the only mark is a thin nick right of

Frosty tan and light steel brown with bright mint color showing on at least 10% of the obverse but only traces of red remaining on the reverse. The o

Frosty medium brown and light chocolate with hints of faded mint color in a couple places around the portrait. The obverse is choice, virtually flawl

Glossy medium chocolate brown and steel with lighter chocolate toning in protected areas. The surfaces are smooth and show only trivial contact marks

Glossy chocolate brown and steel with lighter brown toning in protected areas, particularly on the reverse. The surfaces are smooth and the only mark

Glossy chocolate brown and steel with lighter brown in protected areas on the obverse. The surfaces are smooth and the only notable marks, which are