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Hi again Raegan!! Well, I took a look at your dime and I came up with the same diagnosis as everyone else. What you have is die deterioration doubling, which as Powermad said is quite common on U.S. coins from the late 1970's to the early to mid 1980's. But I have to say your photos are getting quite good! The second set of photos of your 1980-D dime are of very nice quality. Keep it up, you're doing great!!

Sorry for the bad news, Melanie. Roger is literally the man when it comes to Peace Dollars.....if anyone can recognize a fake one, it's him. I hope you can get your money back. But don't let this sour you on the hobby completely. We've all had experiences like this. I know I have....I bought a fake key date Ottoman Empire gold 100 Kurush once. That one hurt!! But I learned from it. I'd chalk this one up to a learning experience, then pick yourself back up, dust yourself off and start all over again!

Wow.....the Medieval Period.....what a time to be alive!!! I had a history professor during my undergrad work said that it was his opinion that the Medieval Period was the single worst phase of human civilization to be alive in if you lived in Europe or the Near East.....and things like what is discussed in this article totally back up his stance!! I know the article was U.K. based but I wonder if the Eastern Romans did stuff like this.....I bet they did. They sure dearly loved their blindings and slicing off noses.....I could completely see boiling people alive for them. They had some nice coins and artwork, did those Eastern Romans, but I sure wouldn't have wanted to live there!!!

Hi Bill, While I am a Roman coin guy, this particular area is far outside of my expertise and my area of interest. I am the wrong guy for this one for a lot of reasons. However, if you want to get some ideas of pricing, you can look up the coins you are interested in on VCoins and MA-Shops and see what the prices are there: https://www.vcoins.com/en/Default.aspx https://www.ma-shops.com/ That should allow you to build a consensus on price ranges on coins that you are interested in. I hope that this is of some help, at least. It's the best I can do here. Best of luck!

Oh yeah!!! They were, weren't they? I wonder how that collector's market is doing now.........

I do now, too, since I've looked at the reverse closer.....it's been A LONG time since I looked over a Peace Dollar in any sort of comprehensive way but I'm thinking we've got a fake 1921 here.

Oooh...good pickup LemE!!! The ray behind the N in ONE doesn't look right in the pictures. It looks like it doesn't extend past the N like it should. It could be something with the photos, but given how clean and well struck the coin is overall, I'm starting to get concerned about it. Here's a reverse of a 1921 Peace Dollar, courtesy of our host's Coin Explorer to illustrate my point:

I agree!! I've enjoyed reading everyone's responses here. This was a great question, Neo. Thanks for asking it!

Same here. That's a regular old clad Roosevelt that's had a rough life.

Hello and Welcome Melanie!!! There seems to be some kind of staining or toning on Liberty's crown on the obverse. Are you able to get a closer, straight on picture of that area of the coin? It may be nothing but it could be an impairment of some kind. I am unsure though, from the photos. Overall, it looks like a nice coin, though.

I like the museum idea as well, Jonathan. I have a project something like that planned when my Faustina collection becomes a little more extensive. There's something magical about an ancient coin and I like the connecting with a person who lived long ago, like you do with Julian. Faustina was quite a bit more, well, colorful and, frankly, brutal than Julian was but no less interesting for that fact. I like to stare into the abyss a little bit, I suppose. ~Tom

Okay....now that changes things. I did not realize this aspect of the coin when I first replied. Given this new information, I have to vote damaged as well.

Oh, I could definitely be wrong. But from the pics, I definitely think cud. But, as always, it could be different with the coin in hand.

Hmmm.....let's see here, Neo (I hope the abbreviation is okay with you). Here are my answers: 1. My coin collecting journey has been fairly long and quite varied. I started collecting coins at the age of 8, in 1988, after finding a 1947 Maple Leaf Canadian Small Cent in change. I became interested in acquiring all of the Canadian Small Cents I could find out of circulation. That soon expanded to Lincoln Cents as well. Once I became a teenager, I walked away from collecting for a few years before picking it up again at 19, in 1999. I was spurred on by the discovery of a 1999-P Susan B. Anthony Dollar. At that time, I started working on a collection of Anthony Dollars and Lincoln Cents (no Canadian at this time. I was living in California then and Canadian was hard to find in circulation out there). Over the years since then, I've collected some U.S. coins, some Indian coins, some British coins while specializing in Canadian Proof Like coinage and Ottoman coinage. This takes us to about 2016, when I completely shifted focus to a thematic set of coins depicting birds and other dinosaurs. Now, we get to 2019 and the beginning of what I do now, which is an attempt at a complete RIC # set of the copper and silver coins of Roman Empress Faustina the Younger, with a few of the nicer provincials thrown in. Chasing Faustina is the only thing I actively pursue collecting-wise now as the project is absolutely massive and it is something I truly adore and I've sold my other collections aside from my birds and other dinosaurs and my Ottoman Nickel Para collection to fund my Faustina collection. My dinosaur collection won a Most Creative Custom Set Award in 2017 and my Ottoman Nickel 20 Para collection won a Best Presented Set Award in 2018. Connected to this, I've been selling coins since 2008 to help fund my own collecting. I also worked in a brick and mortar coins shop for a time from 2012-2013, and I learned a ton about selling there. This is very much a Cliffs Notes version of my collecting journey that hits the main points.....there's more to it as far as things I've collected, but this is the important stuff. 2. Oh, I definitely changed focus. I started with U.S. and Canadian coins, then went to Ottoman coins, and then added Canadian Proof Like coins back in, and then abandoned series and country collecting altogether to chase coins thematically and then finally landed on my Faustina the Younger project. But since finding Faustina, my focus has not wavered once collecting-wise except for some time away after losing my mom and stepmom to cancer within months of each other. But after some time working through things, I came back to coins and it was Faustina I came back to. 3. My scope has definitely narrowed collecting-wise but widened with what I sell. Like I said above, I only actively pursue coins for my Faustina the Younger collection now. But, with my selling, I've moved into selling Canadian coins as well as modern U.S. coins. For years, I really only sold modern U.S. coins, but I want to expand and try something new and Canadian seems like a good choice. 4. Since finding my Faustina the Younger project, I've had no regrets about changing direction. I didn't before that, now that I think about it, because everything I tried taught me a lot and the knowledge gained through collecting as widely as I have in the past allows me to be a better help to newbies, as well as being a better collector and better seller. So, no regrets here! 5. I really cannot pick a favorite part. It's been a valuable experience that has changed me and enriched me as a person, a collector, a seller and as a student of coins. If I had to pick a favorite, it would probably be the moment I held my first Faustina the Younger coin in my hand......it was like finally finding my true numismatic destiny after decades in the hobby and not feeling like I was pursuing things that were cool, but not quite....right for me. When I held that first denarius in my hand, it was immediate love at first sight!!

Hi LemE, Looks like a cud to me. I'm sure others will chime in, but my vote goes with cud.

That photo further confirms my original diagnosis on this one......grease filled die for sure.

Hi again Raegan! This second dime looks like you have a coin struck from a grease filled die, which is where grease accumulates in the recessed area of a coinage die, leading to the loss of design elements. As far as a value, I'm not sure.....I'll let someone who is more versed on the pricing of U.S. coinage errors chime in on that part of it. I hope that this was of some help to you!

No problem. We're always glad to help out new people who want to learn. And it's always better to ask....that's how you learn this hobby. Everyone who is here was a newbie at one point or another.

I actually sell a lot of coins on eBay, to tell you the truth (not junk. Actual good coins). And I thought about this and decided it just wasn't worth the trouble, actually, once you factor in fees, shipping materials and time. And I only got the P mint ones. I'm happier with the choice I made in using them to clean my t-shirts . I'm not getting them any more, thankfully. Lately it's been a bunch of State Quarters, which is still more interesting than hundreds of WCD quarters.

Me too. You nailed it Coinbuf.

Hi again Vero, Greenstang and Coinbuf have this one just right......some machine doubling and one hell of a fingerprint.

I'm in the nope camp, too. Your coin is an example of machine doubling, which does not add value to a coin.

It definitely wasn't done by hand, but this was done outside of the Mint. Big armored truck companies like Brinks get bags of new coins and use machines to both count and roll the coins. Those machines often cause this kind of damage. The circular nature of the damage is a telltale sign of this kind of damage.

OH NO!!!! More WCD quarters!!! My fiancée and I got nothing but solid rolls of these damned things for over a month for our laundry!! I'm so sick of seeing WCD quarters.......but congrats to those that they make happy, even if I am not that guy

Hello and Welcome Raegan! Your dime has been damaged by a counting or rolling machine. This is fairly common to see on modern coins and as it is a form or post-minting damage, it does not add any value to your coin. Your dime it just a spender.