Mohawk

Welcome to the forum, I'm sorry but your photo is out of focus and I cannot tell anything from the photo you have posted.   Also you need to start with a photo of the whole coin (cropped and in focus) both obv and rev, describe what you are seeing and then provide a close up (in focus) of that area.   Also you need to back off the magnification, as I always say everything looks like something at the micron level.   Closeups do not need to be this close to see what is going on, in fact magnification this high usually distorts what is actually there and promotes pareidolia.

No. The crack out game is played on all levels of the grading scale so all grade populations are bloated. 
The population reports are not completely useless but for highly collected U.S. coins there is not a lot to be gained by trying to use them. For more recent moderns, NCLT and lesser collected world coins the pop reports are more accurate. 
 

Good thing it wasn't a Mint in countries where rats are delicacies. Hey, vhere is dot rot Solzhenitsyn promiss me?

Hi,
I'm fairly new to all this, at least compared to most of you. 
I now have reached the point in the evolution of my collections that I buy few coins, but they're all expensive (and certified).
I have read here the advice, "Buy the coin, not the holder," meaning don't blindly follow the grade, even from NGC or PCGS.
The latest coin I've been stalking for the last couple of months has been a 1942/41-D Mercury dime.  I only felt comfortable with the expected price of an EF45, not a higher grade.

I could not find an example at that grade, so I widened the search to VF35 - AU55. 

I found an ICG EF40 that I didn't like.  I found a couple of VF35 slabs that I thought were fairly graded, but which lacked the visual appeal I want out of a die-error coin on which I'm spending that kind of money.
I found an AU50 at a reputable website, and asked for photos.  I was pretty surprised by the coin; what I would have called an EF40 (at best), was in an NGC slab graded AU50, and priced like it.  As a data point, I bought a 1942/41 (plain)Mercury dime a few months ago, in NGC EF40, and I would have happily bought such a coin for this one (at a price appropriate for that grade); but my examination concluded that the AU50 was more worn than my EF40.

In the meantime, I had found an NGC AU55 at another site from which I have purchased a number of coins, that is pristine, at least as nice as I would expect from that grade, and reasonably priced.  So I bought the AU55.

Those two coins (the AU50 and the AU55) were separated (even looking at both sides of the coins) by far more that 5 grading points, in my opinion, and yet both were NGC-graded slabs.

I am really surprised that there could be such variance, but it certainly underscores the advice to buy the coin, not the container!
Mark

Welcome to the forum, from your photos this appears to be a fake these are made in China and can be bought for a couple of bucks.   Sadly we see this question posted all the time and not a single one has been real so far.     If you are truly convinced that this is real then you can certainly send it in to NGC for them to authenticate and slab it.   However my advice is not to waste your money doing so.

Be aware of security at all times - to and from the show, as well as at the show. Show coins, one at a time, to one customer at a time and keep your cases closed, while doing so. Make sure that when someone is looking, coins are at or above table level and in your sight. 

Price your inventory ahead of time and expect counter-offers, even if your asking prices are reasonable.

Know in advance, what types of payment you’ll accept.
Have your inventory arranged neatly and in an order which makes it easy for potential buyers to be able to find what they’re looking for.
Rent cases and lamps, as you don’t know if this will be a short-lived experiment.
Make up a list of necessary supplies. Think from the point of view of both a seller and a buyer.

One other item -- you must be hard-nosed and stingy with yourself. Download one of those P/L Excel spreadsheets and be cruel to yourself and inventory. A business, just like a country, must have the truth to survive and prosper. The "coin collecting hobby" vanishes the instant you rent a show table; it does not reappear until after your business analysis is complete.

With a lot of surplus coins, you could try a local show. Organize what you have, determine what to display, and price aggressively to draw customers and interest. Don't rent more table space than you (or with a helper) can supervise and sell from. Track all sales and item requests that you could not fulfill. Make your table space attractive and interesting - not merely a copy-cat flat space among all the other copy-cat flat spaces. If there's a curtain behind your backup table, use that space to attract attention. You might love to "talk coins" but you are there to sell (and possibly buy) - most of the coin talk will be limited to individual items. 20 seconds is the maximum time you will have to engage a potential customer. Recognize that a large proportion of those visiting your table will be poorly informed or ignorant of coin terminology....it's what they are and you can't change that in 20 seconds.
When the show is over, make a cold business examination of what sold-what sat, revenue vs time and expense. Unfilled requests will help you understand the potential buyers at this show and to make estimates for future shows.
PS: Know your inventory.

That's insane!!! I would NEVER spend that on a Silver Eagle (which probably means next to nothing because I only collect Roman coins), but it's ridiculous!!

The pop reports are trash, the constant crackouts and regrade attempts have made them all but worthless.   The best you can hope to glean from them is a general sense of how many have been graded and a very general idea of what the population curve looks like for those that are graded.

Because there is no editing function on the Internet. Too much utter garbage gets through to readers and it colors their perceptions. 

Lately I been reading a lot articles online , I also been studying up on German states and coinage (more like history not so much of German numismatics)  . I look at coins online on a daily basic just about everyday (it’s like going to a coin show everyday right from your desk). Although I’ll admit I have been lacking on reading about numismatics lately but I know enough not to keep asking goofy questions based on YouTube video made by a some young guy that holds a coin like an amateur talking about rare double die coins that even a drunk coin collector can tell a mile away its machine doubling! 

I read the whole thing when published. Much of it has been in print before in one form or another. I won't comment on something like this that I have not examined carefully - some folks made an authentication determination. It's up to them to answer any questions about the coin.
Compare Heritage's photos with a 1916 sandblast  or 1910 satin proof.

No. State what they are, no more, no less.

Just won a bid on this beauty. 1942 NGC Ms64
 

That's OK. The rails had to be pretty thin in the first place.

Man, I don't think I could last long enough to get kicked up the ladder in that situation.......I cannot think of a "coin" I find more boring than the silver eagle.  Having to sell the damned things raw when I was at the brick and mortar was bad enough, but at least I got to see and handle other, much cooler coins. Grading boxes of silver eagles (or gold eagles for that matter of fact) all day would be HORRIBLE!! And I sell moderns!! There are good modern coins, but eagles are not those. Eagles are lumps of metal struck with a design and a weight for the purpose of being lumps of metal that people hoard.

So, so TRUE!!! I cannot think of a more boring coin related activity than grading box after box of Silver Eagles!!! It would be HORRIBLE!!

That's entirely possible.  Or maybe it went to a Saint collector who isn't a Registry participant who had the funds and decided that particular coin would work to fill the 1921 spot in their non-Registry Saint collection.  I hope it is this latter one......I like when collectors set their own rules to play by and set their own goals for their own reasons.