Just Bob

Rookie. 

So, you are watching filth with your kids?

 
 
 
(And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how our "news" media operates on a daily basis.)

It's been over 30 years, but I still remember this vividly. I'm at a coin shop bid board (remember those?) and a guy is showing a bunch of us his newly purchased Morgan dollar. It's a common date CC and it is the most mark free Morgan I'd have ever seen at the time. It compared well to the few MS67 that were out there. No hairlines or bag marks, just the occasional light ding disturbing the surfaces. Just superb marks wise. It was 100% white with a decent strike. He asked us what we thought it would grade. He boasted easily MS67, maybe MS68. Most of the people said MS65-MS67. I called it MS63 and he was insulted and knocked my grading abilities because I was young and didn't have the decades collecting like he did. 
A couple months later he brought the coin in to the shop in a PCGS slab. Grade was covered. He did the guess the grade thing again and got the similar responses. He pulled the sticker off the slab to reveal the grade on the most mark free CC Morgan I've ever seen. I was wrong when I called it MS63. PCGS graded it MS62. He was upset and asked us collectively how PCGS could call it MS62 when it was so mark free. I smugly pointed out to him that while the coin was mark free, the luster was completely dead. It had been way over-dipped to the point that the acid had killed the luster. Someone else then chimed in "you can still see the faint fingerprint they were probably trying to dip off".
Moral of the story: Bag marks aren't everything. Weak graders focus way too much on marks and ignore other things like luster, placement of the marks, and totality of the marks (size, frequency, and location of the marks).
Follow-up: He resubmitted it and got MS62 again. He later sold it on another bid board I frequented as "MS70" where it brought generic unc money. 

Just turn it over. Then they will be in the correct order.

Just turn it over. Then they will be in the correct order.

Just turn it over. Then they will be in the correct order.

Good to see you posting again on this side of the street, Sir Robert.  Beautiful coin. 

Congrats! 

This is awfully confusing to me, since, considering that the '91 is the first picture, it looks like you are asking about it, instead of the '83.
I don't see anything on your coin (the '83) that looks like a dime. I don't think a cent blank could be struck with the dime design, anyway .A cent planchet is too big to fit in a dime collar. In order for your cent to have been struck by dime dies, the collar would have to be missing, and the planchet would likely have to be placed in the coining chamber by hand. The extra obverse design looks like the Lincoln memorial, to me, which would indicate clashed dies.

Me, too. 
I have a feeling that the story is one of those legends that get passed from generation to generation.

This is awfully confusing to me, since, considering that the '91 is the first picture, it looks like you are asking about it, instead of the '83.
I don't see anything on your coin (the '83) that looks like a dime. I don't think a cent blank could be struck with the dime design, anyway .A cent planchet is too big to fit in a dime collar. In order for your cent to have been struck by dime dies, the collar would have to be missing, and the planchet would likely have to be placed in the coining chamber by hand. The extra obverse design looks like the Lincoln memorial, to me, which would indicate clashed dies.

Good job with doing your own research, and coming to a logical and probable conclusion. I think the "time in the dirt" theory is probably correct.

I don't know about all of the other stuff, but I am past ready for them to get rid of the president portraits.

Here is the final 5-inch galvano for FDR dime reverse. Note that detail is much better than on the 1946 coin photo, above. [Photo by Army Quartermaster Corps, Philadelphia.]

Benjamin Franklin Dulweber owned Dulweber Land and Timber Company from 1925 - 29. In 1930, he took over the Supreme Instruments Company in Greenwood, Ms, which designed and produced many of the radio analyzers, multimeters, and tube testers used by radio repair shops and service men from the 1920s through the 1950s.
The tokens share a common obverse, and were produced in 5, 10, 25, and 50 cent, and one dollar denominations. 
 

The subject of my last post, A.J. McLeod, owned a number of mills, stores, and other companies in the Bay St. Louis/Waveland/Kiln area. This is another token from one of his lumber stores in Kiln, MS.
Kiln was known for its lumber, turpentine and charcoal industries. After the forests were depleted, during the Depression, the area was famous for its moonshine production.
 

A.J. McLeod established a large sawmill, turpentine distillery, and stave mill on the Jourdan river north of Bay St, Louis, MS around 1910. His wife, Virginia, and nephew, Norton Hass, continued to operate the mills into the 1950s.
Tokens are known in denominations of 5, 25, and 50 cents, and one dollar. There are, oddly, no 10 cent tokens known to exist.
 

Welcome to the forum.
I think the way that the Franklin Mint products have been marketed has much to do with the lack of respect in the numismatic and collectibles community. It (in most cases) has little to do with the quality of the workmanship, or the actual products themselves. I have stated in the past that I really like some of their designs, like in the History of the US set. (Not too fond of the President set designs, though.) I even have some Three Stooges plates, but that is because I am a Stooges fan, not because I think there is any chance they will go up in value.
The key is your phrase "catches fire." That is not likely to happen in the near future.

Welcome to the forum, Mr. Shatner! Loved ST: TOS.
I agree that it's a damaged quarter, no premium value, not worth sending in for grading.

The Hogster is correct. Something hit the ear and put a dent in it.