Just Bob

You can give my share to the others, and accept my thanks for the chance to enter. Great give-away!

You have more experience than most in this area. What, in your opinion, would be the likely reason(s) for the "altered surfaces" label?

Were the dies hardened in Philadelphia, or at the branch mints?

Looks polished to me, too. Good luck with the re-submittal.

Nice to see you posting over here. Don't be such a stranger.

It looks AU, to me. The luster looks impaired in places. But, giving a definite answer from pictures is beyond my limited ability.

Where do you see doubling?

That is not a "4." Note the distance from the point of the "4" to the "9" on the genuine 1943, and compare it with your coin. Not the same distance.

It will not change the facts, though. Neither of the coins shows hub doubling. Some very cool looking strike doubling, though. Unfortunately, just not valuable.

Can't be, unless your coin has two different dates, and you removed the spots off of parts of the coins and replaced them with other spots.

How many coins are pictured in your photos?

That little "R" stamped just to the left of the date stands for "Replica."

Although the picture does not show it clearly, the devices on the PCGS coin are apparently frosted enough to merit the Deep Cameo designation. A different angle of photography would probably show it better.

In my opinion, pretty much any Roosevelt dime made after about 1950 will need to grade MS67 and receive the Full Torch designation, in order to make it worth the money to have it graded. Most dimes minted after the mid 80's will need to grade a minimum of MS68. To be designated Full Torch, all horizontal and vertical lines on the torch must be complete, without breaks from damage or weak strike. Neither of the reverse pictures that you posted show a dime that would qualify for the full torch designation,(also my opinion). And, even though the pictures are not very clear, I don't think any of the coins shown would grade MS67 or higher. They would make really nice coins for a Roosevelt set album, though. In other words, if the coins were mine, I would not have any of them graded.

There is a slight misalignment of the obverse die, which shows as doubling of the rim from about 8:00 to 1:00. This is not really uncommon, and does not increase the value any. As for it being a doubled die - I can't see any doubling, but here is a link to the two known doubled die obverses for this year/mint mark. You can see if your coin matches either of these: Click here for the link

This token is a bit more modern than most of the ones I have posted so far. Mr. Thomas Wixon founded Wixon & Co. Jewelers in 1966 at 3010 Washington Ave., in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The business is still operating today.

I believe I read somewhere that some of the old presses were sold for scrap, and ended up in China, where they were (and maybe still are) used to manufacture counterfeit coins. There is also one in use in Colorado at the Moonlight mint.

Your coin is one of 1904 which have graded PF70 UC, as of this moment. - (that number is going to change as more coins are submitted for grading). The "0" means that none are graded higher than that. "Top Pop" means the same thing. Congrats on the grade.

Apparently, I misunderstood the meaning of your phrase, "....metal detector...geeeeeez !"

Keep in mind, also, that, with your scale only reading to one decimal place, your coin could weigh anywhere from 2.85 to 2.94 grams, and your scale would still read "2.9." The weight is outside the tolerance for either type of planchet, so checking your scale for accuracy, as the previous posters have suggested, would be the first step.

Brilliant Proof. No cameo contrast visible from the pictures.

OP, what is the real purpose of this thread?

I assume that this means that you have extensive experience with a metal detector, since you completely discount this theory.

Ditto