Just Bob

A PF70 ultra cameo quarter is worth a few hundred to the right buyer, so if you are seeing prices higher than that, it is likely clickbait. i can relate, though. I saw an article this morning that had a title claiming that certain bicentennial quarters were worth $80 million.

I did not set any goals for this l past year, but I was able to add 41 tokens to the collection, along with a couple of interesting US error coins and some world coins that caught my eye. All-in-all, it was a good year for all my collections.

The "O" is next to the "P" on a keyboard, so my guess is that the title has a typo, and the OP meant to type "RPM." Welcome to the forum, Gary. You might wonder why you were asked to supply photos of the complete coin, front and rear (obverse and reverse.) The reason is that later die states of the D over horizontal D variety can possibly be confirmed by various die scratches and breaks, assuming the coin is not too worn to see them. You might want to take a look at the Variety Vista page for this coin, since you have it in hand, and compare it to the pictures and descriptions there. Here is the link: click here

Welcome to the forum. Your coin looks like it has spent some time in the bowels of a commercial clothes dryer or some other machine that has worn down the edge and one side. It is not an error coin but is merely damaged.

98E, huh? Does that mean between Hattiesburg and Lucedale?

Welcome to the forum. Have you weighed the coins? They need to be weighed on an accurate scale that reads in grams to two decimal places (hundredths of a gram). There were two different cent compositions that year, as I am sure you know. The copper-coated zinc version should weigh around 2.5 grams, and the brass version should weigh around 3.11 grams. Be sure to orient your pictures correctly and crop out all of the background. That makes it easier for all of us old men on here to see what you have and offer help.

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It is important to remember that all 5,000 of the coins were encapsulated. The first 3,000 were sold for $200 apiece to collectors who, we assume, bought them solely because of the Goodacre providence. The remaining 2000 were bought by a dealer, crossed to PCGS for grading and encapsulation, and then sold, probably for at least that amount and possibly more. It is highly likely that every collector who bought one was aware that the value lay solely in the fact that their coin once belonged to Ms. Goodacre, and that removing it from the slab would destroy the value. Human nature being what it is, it is possible that a few coins were removed from their holders by collectors who hate having their coins entombed in plastic. But I would guess that 99.9% of the coins are still in a holder from one of the three major grading services. Any coin claiming to be a Goodacre piece and being sold raw has to be assumed to be either a coin struck from new or freshly polished dies, or one that has been buffed to imitate a presentation piece. Either way, I would run from those as fast as I could. On a related note: if anyone sees Skip Fazzari at FUN, or on another coin forum, would you ask him if he was involved in authenticating these coins? Someone at ICG discovered that there were two different types of finish, and I was wondering if it was he who discovered it

That is sad. Someone ruined a proof set.

We need a "drool" emojie. Wow! Amazing pieces!

All 5000 pieces that the mint paid to MS. Goodacre were sent to ICG for encapsulation to preserve their heritage. So, the short answer to your question is that the coin must be in the original ICG holder or have been crossed over to a PCGS or NGC holder which has the Goodacre designation on the label to be worth a premium. Any coin not in a holder cannot be proven to be a presentation piece, regardless of how it looks.

The coin is obviously a fake, and the government should definitely take action, but the holder doesn't actually say "NGC," and the insert is a different style, so I doubt there is anything that can be done about the holder being fake.

What a great idea!

I believe the impression was made by a Roosevelt dime. Obviously not an error. Just glue, as the others have stated.

Judging by the Anthony Dollars that I have seen, anytime you can get a 67 on a business strike from '79 to '81, you've made a major coup. Even the ones I've seen in mint sets were baggy. Nice job.

Only that part which has gone past glossy black to dull black. On an album tone coined for example, that color is usually near the rim, since toning starts there and progresses toward the center of the coin. Do you have a picture of Sunnywood's toning progression scale? It explains color progression very well. To the OP: sorry about getting your thread off topic. It just seemed like a good place to post some information that might be helpful to newbies who read this thread down the road.

Congrats!

Here is the thread It is hard to follow with all of the off topic posts, but there is a link in the thread to a similar thread on CT that might be easier to keep up with.

"Means this is not real and not American Dollar" You are correct. It is not an American dollar coin. It is a fake coin. There were no American coins minted in 1865 that looked like this.

Terminal toning etches the surface of the coin. So, while not necessarily destroyed, the coin is definitely damaged. Skip Fazzari, who used to post as "Insider," showed pictures of a coin several years ago that had been dipped to remove terminal toning. The etching was very noticable. Edit: I should clarify. It isn't actually the toning itself that causes damage to the coin. The contaminants on the surface caused the damage, and toning is just the evidence of the contamination.

Is it blank on the reverse like the 5 cent token?

If you found it in your car, it probably crawled in there to keep from getting beat up again.

If you will post a link to the auction I will report it, too. I'm sure others will, also. It may not help, but at least we can say we tried.

You should weigh it on a scale that reads to the nearest hundredth gram, and if/when it proves to be a brass plated zinc example, you can put it in a coin album or holder as one of the 7 regular types of cents coined that year by the mint, or spend it, whichever you see fit. It would not grade high enough to make it worth sending it in to be certified.

That's the kind of parking lot coin you want to find!