Coinbuf

Its worth the face value of 1 cent. In 2009 the mint produced four versions of the Lincoln cent to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the Lincoln cent which was first produced in 1909. Each design was meant to portray a portion of Lincon's life, the design you have is called The Professional Life.

Looks like a damaged coin, worth less than 25 cents. Welcome to the forum.

You can read Kurt's short and colorful reason he is no longer a national volunteer for yourself.

Would you be expecting a balanced nonbiased account of the meeting from the recently ousted Kurt.

From your opening post it seemed like you were in attendance. I am not there and haven't seem or heard any of the meeting. Hopefully someone can add more to the story.

So that's all we get, a teaser and a comment with no refrence to context or content?

There isn't any such thing as "toning error", just simple exposure to the elements.

The only thing it could be is a strike through, but from your photos it looks more like a scratch to me.

Impossible to answer without knowing what you mean by "box". Can you post a photo of not of these sets/boxes?

Your question is not clear, do you want to put your coins into and participate in the NGC registry? Is that what you mean by registering? If this not what you're asking for then I have no clue what you are asking about. If you wish to participate in the NGC registry then yes you will have no choice but to spend a considerable amount of money and submit your coins to NGC for grading, there is no way around this. I would strongly suggest that you do some serious research into the value of your coins as they are and what they would be worth as an NGC certified coin. You might find that it is financially unreasonable to have all your coin graded.

The coin has been counterstamped, likely by someone named Jesse. Not an error just damaged but still worth 25 cents.

I see only worthless minor strike doubling.

Damaged, likely caught in a dryer, not an error and only worth one cent.

Your decision to crack these out seems not a good one from your photos. Granted photos don't always tell the full story, but just from photos I see your chances of anything over PF67 as remote. In hand I might have a different opinion. You would have been better off submitting to PCGS for crossover at the current grade or perhaps one grade less. NGC doesn't offer the crossover option except for PCGS graded coins. I am unclear what motivated you to crack these from the PCI holders, but my opinion is you just lost a lot of value. In the future if you want a coin in NGC or PCGS plastic is is better to buy the coin already in that plastic unless you are an expert grader.

May have been caught in a coin counting machine, or some other type of machinery, did not leave the mint in that condition thus PMD.

If you decide to waste your money on submitting your coin please do come back and let us know how you feel about the depth of knowledge you have already received from the members here when you get your results. In case it's not clear to you, I also see a reprocessed (plated) coin.

I personally have no desire for this option, of the bakers dozen sets I have on the PCGS registry which does have this option I've only received one comment over the past 20ish years. I guess my sets are not that interesting to others, so comments are not really that important to me. Plus, I really don't want a bunch of unsolicited offers to buy my coins, I have had that happen in the past on another website. On the one hand it is somewhat flattering to see that someone likes your coins, but at the same time its somewhat a pain having to turn them down. Just my thoughts on it.

Well not now!

Some people have more time on their hands and the alure of "getting one over" on someone can be the real game when faking errors. I'm not saying that this coin was done in an effort to deceive, although it may have been simply that if you can take a nickel and turn it into a dollar or two there are those who say sure why not. At the worst they are only out a nickel. Welcome to the forum.

The MAC sticker has been around for many years now especially prevalent on ebay, however, that sticker service is a joke. MAC stickers are the sticker equivalent to the self or basement slabber, it means nothing to knowledgeable collectors. That doesn't mean that MAC does not have followers, I have no doubt that there are some buyers that look for MAC stickered coins. Last I knew the MAC service is not a service provided to the general collecting population like CAC or the new CMQ are, it is an in-house sticker that one seller puts on his own inventory, it should be easy to see what a conflict of interest that would be. Because the company that puts MAC stickers on slabs has been around so long you will see these MAC stickered coins from many sellers. Another big problem with the MAC stickers is the marketing garbage they do. If you have not seen some many of their stickers will say ridiculous things like 4FS or 90% FBL for full bell lines. Clearly 4 full steps on a Jefferson nickel means nothing just as almost full bell lines on a Franklen half, but MAC markets these almost there designations as premium coins due to almost making the cut. What they are doing is not illegal hence why they are still in business, and if you can buy a coin with one of their stickers at the same price as one without that is fine. But most knowledgeable collectors know that the MAC sticker is worthless, sadly there are lots of uneducated buyers in the coin marketplace. I have also been told that one of the principal owners of the firm behind the MAC sticker is the same fellow that owned and operated the now defunct ACG (Accugrade) grading service, Alan Hager. I don't know if you are familiar with that individual or his grading company, but he was offering grading and slabbing services which started in 1984, two years before NGC or PCGS. The problem with his grading service was the same as the MAC sticker, he was grading his own inventory and often gave inflated grades and/or straight grades to coins in his inventory with issues. ACG ended up in court with several lawsuits which shut the company down.

There seems to be enough detail to just support a F12 grade, but it would never receive a straight grade due to the heavy circulation damage and the color makes it appear to have been cleaned/dipped.

Damaged, the filled mintmark is of no importance.

I see nothing in your photos to suggest that any of these is worth more than face value. For a great many people it is easier to believe the dream than face reality, we have many of those types visit this site each week, youngmoola and vasquez j are prime examples from this past week. Folks like that truly believe that if they say something enough times it must be true.

You're the expert why don't you tell us.

Apples and oranges, gold has been in a very tight range for quite some time, so this is a rapid move relative to how it has acted recently. Trying to compare that to highly volatile assets like bitcoin is a false comparison. I disagree, too many retail buyers are having trouble just putting food on the table and paying the rent to load up on gold at these price levels. In the past you have sought to use Chinese citizens as the source of the impetus for a $3,000 target. Data shows that that segment has cooled due to the price runup, that only leaves central bank buying as the logical source of the spirited buying. I did not say that every central bank was in a buying frenzy, but it really only takes a handful (which is what we have now) to see the current spike.