Just Bob

I am not sure how you arrived at this conclusion, since anyone who owns a sandblaster could duplicate this finish on a coin with little trouble. They could also leave the edges unaffected, as is the case with your coin. People do strange things to coins all the time. But, it appears that nothing that any of us has to say is going to sway your opinion. Since you are obviously convinced that you have found something special, I suggest you send it in to have it authenticated, and be sure and post your results in this thread when you get it back. Not that it will matter to you, but the gentlemen with which you are arguing in the above posts have combined numismatic experience of over 150 years, including collecting, buying, selling, and grading coins professionally. Good luck with your new find

This appears to be one of the less common varieties, Breen-14, AKA Sheldon-234/Bowers-Whitman-5, estimated existing population : 200 to 300. That should make it worth a little more to an EAC collector than a generic 1802, but you have the problem of those scratches on the obverse. They are probably less pronounced in hand than they appear in the pictures, but I am still not sure it would grade problem-free. I think it would probably get a "Very Good Details," or "Fine Details" grade, which would put it in the AG to G price range. Probably not worth the expense of having it graded. It would make a decent coin for a type set, or a good example for a variety collector, until you could find an upgrade. Don't clean it or try to approve it's appearance in any way. Cleaning will erase most of what value it has. By the way, if it is, in fact, B-14, that is not rim damage above the B in LIBERTY. It is a rim die break (cud), caused by an early die clash. Welcome to the forum.

Did PCGS use the Generation numbers from Conder101's book?

I'm curious. Why, after owning the coin in the raw state for 30 years, then recently spending money to have it encapsulated, are you now wanting to break it out of the slab and have the hole filled?

I think I see enough definition in the leaves to call this one XF. It has some circulation "dings," but it is a nice looking coin.

Unless you posted this coin on another thread, no one has told you to send your coin in for grading. Two people in this thread said it would not be worth the cost, another poster implied the same, and two people said to post your results, if you do decide to send it in. (Two others were discussing a different coin.) My opinion: it would come back AU if that is wear on the high points, and MS63 if it is weak strike.

The San Diego Zoo issued coins?!

Yikes! I have actually been in that very situation, when I was in my twenties. Showed up for work one day and was told, "We no longer have anything for you to do. We will call all of you when we need you." They abruptly shut down the whole project, and we never heard from them again.

That is why you should never run up stairs with scissors. You could fall, break your neck, and put your eye out, all at the same time

Well done!

Those are all large date cents. Welcome to the forum.

Sam's looking good! (The coins are nice, too)

What do you think happened, given the fact that it could not have happened when the coin was struck - as explained in two different posts above?

Looks like a slight misalignment of the obverse die. Not enough to make it worth more than a cent, but pretty cool to look at. Welcome to the forum

Encompassing 17,000 acres, King and Anderson plantation was said to be the largest family owned plantation in Mississippi. The tokens were used at the company store, which is the first building pictured. There are two varieties of both the one dollar and the fifty cent tokens. (Sorry about switching the position of obverse/reverse on one of the pictures) Both the obverse and reverse are different on the two $1.00 tokens, but only the obverse is different on the $.50 (note the die chip on the left of the "0" on both reverses.) The set contains a one cent token, which is not common,since they usually cost more than one cent apiece to purchase There was also a $3.50 punch card issued, but I have only seen pictures of one.

Welcome to The Forum Great first post!

Yes.

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Yeah, I was thinking it might be something that happened during the process of re-plating. Or maybe damage that was plated over.

Welcome to the forum. Is it possible for you to post clear, close-up pictures of the obverse and reverse of the coin? We might be able to give you an idea of the potential value. ( "We" meaning the members of this forum. I am not affiliated with NGC in any way.)

So, you were trying to get two fake coins, that aren't even in PCGS holders, entered into an NGC registry, using fake PCGS numbers? You should be ashamed of yourself!

One "B" is supposed to be there, since it is one of the letters of "LIBERTY." The other thing that resembles a "B" is damage to the hair that is sticking out of the front of Miss Liberty's cap.

Dino

I think you are right.

I use voice-to-text quite often when posting here. I just have to say the words "comma," "period," "question mark," in the right places (I haven't figured out how to tell my phone to use parenthesis or quotation marks properly, though.)