James_OldeTowne

That's one of the FM products that I would NOT melt down!

12 hours ago, Hoghead515 said:

Old Fred was a dandy. That to this day is still one of my favorite TV shows of all time. Him and old Archie Bunker. 

I still tune in to watch Sanford & Son on a regular basis!  Of course, I'm biased, being from St. Louis....

The OP coin definitely appears fake to me.

Franklin mint products, with few exceptions, are widely considered sub-bullion pieces.  I'd melt that off without a second thought.

Face value, unless you can find someone putting together a collection of circulated proofs (which would be an extremely difficult endeavor).

I agree with RWB's excellent explanation regarding clashed dies.

By the way - VERY nice photos!

It's a normal cent that might have been turned into a "spinner" (I think that's what they were called).

It looks sort of like a "magician's coin" - like a cent on one side and a dime on the other.  But usually those are done with different denominations.

I agree.  It appears to be a circulation strike subjected to harsh treatment.

That looks like an artifact caused by the plastic holder.  It isn't on the surface of the coin.

Definitely not a proof, but it does appear to be weirdly altered.

Yep, an aftermarket set.  Those are probably not even SMS coins.

I agree - looks like the die had a dot of contamination in that area of the band.

OP pics are a little tough to interpret, but I suspect strike doubling.

That rotation is very slight and within tolerances for coins from the mint.

Far too much consternation goes into which grading service is "better", and I am often dismayed and a mused over the endless threads and discourse (far and away, mostly ATS) to "prove" that X is "better" than Y.

Great coins exist in every single legitimate company's slabs and I prefer to focus on that.  For reasons beyond "grading", I do prefer NGC, but my certified collection contains a substantial percentage of PCGS and ANACS coins.

What does the reverse of the first coin look like?  Going ONLY by obverse photos (which is unfair), the first coin looks like a PQ MS-63 and the second looks like a "gift" - could go MS-62 or MS-63 based on shifting circumstances.

The photos don't appear to show anything genuine or valuable.

"Bagmarks" is generally a misnomer.  Coins thrust into bags do collect marks from each other (hence the term), but such marks can be completely indistinguishable from a coin coming into contact with any number of comparable objects... such as a pocket knife, pebble, whatever.

As far as I know, clashed dies should not affect a coin's grade, with the exception of modern extremely high-grade proof coins.

I find tab toning to be very highly desirable, and it's too bad that evidently, so many coins have been dipped to remove such toning.

Your photos are MUCH better than the originals created by the seller.  I greatly dislike those kinds of photos of white-on-black cameo proofs that display not even a hint of the actual character of the fields.

That kind of clashing is common for coins of the mid-19th century, and in my experience, seems particularly prominent on smaller denominations.

The photos depict a normal proof Eisenhower dollar, albeit one that could use professional conservation.  There is nothing at all "special" about it.

On 11/19/2020 at 4:44 AM, Ratzie33 said:

Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball shooter of all time said the “more shots you take the more shots you make.”

He probably wasn't referring to random shots, though.