Just Bob

As a general rule of thumb, a "details" coin will sell for 2-3 letter grades lower than a normal coin. In other words, you should look at VF or Fine prices to determine the value of your coin. And, remember that most price guides give retail prices - the price you would expect a dealer to charge you. What you could actually sell the coin for would be even lower that that.

Greed. Pure and simple.

Put me in the counterfeit camp.

Great pickups!

The obverse looks VF, the reverse is a bit too blurry to tell if the lines in the wheat ears are all there, but also looks VF. It might even go low XF in hand. Still not worth the cost of submission, though. I would put the value of this one in the $8 - $12 range, judging by "sold" listings on Ebay.

I have often wondered just how many of those were misplaced due to their tiny size. I realize it was a substantial sum back then, and would have been carefully handled, but still, it had to be easy to lose them.

I must be out of the loop. I can't recall ever having seen the term "bag wear" before. If anyone has pictures documenting this, I would love to see them. I am curious to know if I can distinguish between that, cabinet friction, and circulation wear, just by viewing pictures.

It stands for Silver dollar.

It looks like a set of brass or bronze medals, issued by a private firm, such as the Franklin Mint. Assuming no presidents were excluded, it would date around 1950.

I can't get the cert number to pull up.

Absolutely not

To put it in Southern terms: That is some serious wishful thinking right there!

There are four listed on Variety Vista. NGC recognizes one - FS-103.

Are you referring to a "dropped letter?" I had that same thought, until I looked at the full coin picture. It is too small to be the "O" in "GOD," or part of one of the numerals. It does not look to be raised or incuse, but looks like it is part of the surface. It would be great to see the coin in hand, but, from the picture, it looks like a stain of some sort. Whether it is a "Struck through something tiny" or not may be impossible to determine.

It is called "Split Plate Doubling," and is considered damage. The following is copied from Error-Ref.com: Definition: Best expressed and most often seen among broadstrikes and off-center strikes, split plating doubling is restricted to copper-plated zinc cents. When the planchet is struck, the portion trapped beneath the dies expands in all directions. The thin copper plating is subjected to tensile as well as compressive stress. The tensile stress causes the copper plating to rupture, exposing the underlying zinc. The exposed zinc often outlines large centrally-located design elements, like busts and buildings. Split plating doubling can, however, involve any design element, including peripheral ones. Another factor involved in split plating doubling is a tendency for the copper plating to catch on the sharp corners of the recesses in the die face. This can tear open the copper plating as the coin expands.

Welcome to the forum.

Oliver Baylis Overstreet ran a general store in Beaumont, MS from 1913 until his death in 1929. His store passed to his heirs, and was run by his wife, Laura, until 1940. When I bought this token, it came with a note to a former owner that was written by LLoyd Wagaman, in which he attributed the token to Beaumont. Mr Wagaman was a founder of the Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio Token and Medal Society, and wrote the book on Indiana tokens, He was also an attributer/identifier of tokens, and designed and created many series of elongated cents. More on Mr. Wagaman at a later date.

True. I should have finished the thought, and said that it was a one-year-only event, to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the mint, and there were no P mint marks from 2018 forward. Oh well, no sainthood for Bob.

They won't grade a plated coin.

It is not a theory. It is a fact. According to the Red Book (A Guide Book of United States Coins), "Prior to 1996 all dies were made at the Philadelphia Mint. ... Dies for use at other mints are made with the appropriate mintmarks before they are shipped to those mints."

It, and 99 more of its brethren, would be worth a dollar.

The close-up picture is showing strike doubling, also known as machine or mechanical doubling. It is not a doubled die.

Unless I am remembering wrong, all mint marks were applied at the Philadelphia mint.

I use voice-to-text.

The coin appears to have rub on the high points, and thus would be somewhere in the AU grade range. That makes it worth $0.01.