Just Bob

Ditto

It's not a $1. Looks like a quarter eagle.

Got it.

Actually, it was. The OP acknowledged as much, and flipped the photo around. You are going to have to explain this one to me: How can I "read the legend more carefully" if , as I stated in my above post, I don't read the language?

What is the reason for the characters on the coin being turned in the opposite direction of the characters in the drawing? (I apologize - I don't read the language)

I will try to get scans of all the pages on proof half cents. I will have to do it at work, so give me a day or three. If you need something else, let me know.

The Official Red Book of half & large cents gives Cohen & Breen numbers, as well as Bowers-Whitman numbers. I have a copy. Do you need information about a specific coin or group of coins? Do you need to borrow the book?

Is the OP's upper picture reversed, or is the writing backwards on the coin?

I didn't mean to imply that the she, or any government employee, does not know how to work. (Except, of course for MS Dept. of Transportation workers. They know how to lean on a shovel). My implication was that, never having worked in the private sector, many government workers have no clue how an average person lives, works, thinks, or carries out their daily life. My experience with career government workers is that they are out of touch with average folks.

Apparently, Ms. Doone has never had a real job - in other words, a job in the private sector. I can't say that this fact gives me high expectations concerning our coinage. I may just be overly cynical when it comes to lifetime government employees, though.

I am seeing what appears to be signs of the Blakesley effect opposite both clips, but I am certainly no expert on these errors.

Welcome to the boards. This forum is for registry questions, so not very many people read it. You might want to try re-posting on the Newbie or US Coins forum. Those get a lot more traffic.

Greek tetradrachm Gela Sicily

No. You could save it because it is kind of old and interesting, but it will probably never be worth more than the value of the copper it contains.

You may want to copyright this. I foresee it becoming a very popular item in the future.

No U.S. coins minted from 1965-1967 had mint marks. They left the mint marks off to discourage hoarding, because the government was blaming collectors for the coin shortage. I suggest you buy a copy of "A Guidebook of United States Coins," by R.S. Yeoman, commonly called the "Red Book." It contains a wealth of information that is very helpful to a new collector.

It is a shame that someone ruined what was probably a nice coin, once upon a time. If it belonged to me, I would remove it from its holder, then examine it carefully, using several different types of lighting, and different powers of magnification, and try to learn as much as possible about why it was given a no-grade. I would then carry it around as a pocket piece for a year or more, and see if I could give it enough good, honest wear to bring the grade down to at least XF, or possibly high VF. That should be enough wear to remove any damage done by the cleaning. After that, I would store it away for a few years to see if it would get some natural toning. (No Taco Bell napkins or anything else to accelerate color, thank you.) I probably would not send it back in for grading, because that is not my thing, but I bet it would straight grade after that. If anyone thinks this might be dishonest, let me point out that what I described is exactly what has happened to billions of coins that were pulled from circulation and saved, and are now in collections all over the world.

If I spotted a coin shop selling damaged Lincoln cents for$1.50, I would never darken the doors of that establishment again.

I assume you are referring to the "teardrop" on the crossbar of the numeral "4" in the date, and other markers. Yes, these are present on the coins that have been labeled "Specimen" or "Special Mint Set." Here is the issue, though. These coins were labeled as being special, without any known documentation to back up the claim. They are all believed to have come from the same source, but there is nothing to prove that they were struck in a different manner than a normal coin. Numismatic author Roger Burdette (RWB who posted above) believes that these coins are nothing more than the first coins minted from new dies, and this is what gives them their sharply struck, satiny appearance, often with numerous die polishing lines evident. This is also the explanation given by NGC. If, in fact, these "Specimen" coins are actually normal business strikes, it is entirely possible for there to be coins found in circulation, or in mint sets, with these markers. It is unlikely, however that the same markers would be present on a proof coin. Since all three of your coins appear to be proof coins, I would be interested in seeing closer pictures of these markers that you see.

I'm glad someone else saw that. I thought it was my eyes.

At this point the master hub was also getting worn. In fact, a new master hub was created the following year, if my memory serves me correctly.

Mercari - home of many sellers of counterfeit coins, and many extremely overpriced genuine coins. Almost as bad as Etsy.

Not quite. It was not the quality of the dies. The high relief of the design resulted in inadequate metal flow, causing the higher areas of the coin, such as the hair over Liberty's ears and the eagle's breast feathers, to not strike up fully with a single strike, at least on most coins. This was resolved by lowering the relief on the coins dated 1922 and later.

OP, the post above mine is by the man who wrote the book on Peace dollars. And, I mean that literally - the name at the bottom of the book pictured below is his. If he says a Peace dollar is fake, I see no need to pursue the matter further.

I am of the opinion that this coin is not genuine.