Coinbuf

Welcome to the forum, what you have is not a doubled die, just simple strike doubling aka mechanical doubling.

Interesting, I was not aware that Dansco made an album for year sets like this, @James at EarlyUS.com what is the number of that album? That is a very cool and fun set of sets that you have put together.

Looks like a die chip, super common with many of the 60's era Lincoln cents, quality control was not a priority at the mint back then.

I am in agreement with @Woods020 the grade levels you are looking for would most likely be someone's mistake submission, it makes no financial sense to pay to have one graded and slabbed at that low a grade. But best of luck on your search, what you seek may well be out there you just may have to search a lot of hay.

I get that, but here is the thing. John is not grading the coins, he is merely giving some fineness to the opinion already given by the three TPG graders, in essence a fourth opinion on top of the combined three. And he is not doing it alone, he has others that review the coins prior to his look, much like the finalizer at a TPG. So to say that one man has the power of the all mighty is; well a bit of a stretch. If he was actually grading coins by himself as say Alan Hager did at ACG, that would be quite a different story altogether. Hero worship, meh, that is your bias talking. Are there some that may worship JA, perhaps, but if you want to rail against hero worship you need to talk to people that worship the Kardashian's, or all the massively overpaid basketball players, or the PCGS fan boys. Now those people are really sick and have some serious hero worship issues.

A good lesson for everyone, no photo can tell the entire story.

Welcome to the forum, please note that I am not an employee of NGC, just a member here answering your question. NGC does offer a crossover service, here is a screen shot that describes the crossover service that NGC provides If you are asking can NGC reholder your coin in a new slab from a different company that answer is no. Each TPG (third party grading company) is a separate company, and companies do not allow other companies to use their trademarked products (the slab).

For sure! I have yet to send a submission that did not have one or two coins that left me saying what the heck. Like you I usually see the light after I give the coins that fail (at least the ones that were not 50/50 shot coins) a real good going over, but there always seems to one or two that I just cannot figure out why they failed. And coincidentally they are very often Washington quarters, I cannot grade those suckers for anything.

Does that mean that you are going to send your 50/50 coins to me to submit now.

If you know a dealer or collector in your area that is willing to submit them on your behalf that will be the quickest, least expensive way. If you are friends with a collector who can submit that you can trust; that is the most cost effective way to submit as collectors do not pay for the coins not stickered where dealers pay for each coin sticker or not. I would be happy to submit them for you (I am a collector submitter) but then there is the double cost of shipping which really gets expensive. And of course if you have applied to CAC for collector membership then you can simply wait until you receive their approval and can submit yourself.

Refreshing to see a true error posted here on this forum, overloaded on overhyped die cracks with cute names and plating bubbles.

Welcome to the forum, it appears to be a souvenir or tourist copy, these have been sold in many places from truck stops to museums as mementos of a trip.

Although it is not an unobtanium date (like a 1854-D) this is a better date for the series, so while most of the collector value of the coin is gone or limited it will still appeal to some collectors, just a smaller group than if undamaged. I do not know how this would be valued in todays market, I would guess halfway between an undamaged piece and the melt value would be a rough starting place.

While I cannot know for sure I suspect that many who are fascinated with this type of coin are simply young and have been influenced by too much misinformation from the click bait sites like youtube and such. Therefore they seem to think that posting something different, even if it is poorly made junk or damaged, is somehow a way to standout. Its like the past generations fascination with tattoos or multiple face piercings, it is/was a way to get noticed or seen when the blue hair wasn't getting the job done. Now today posting this stuff is the way get likes/clicks when you are a small fish in a big internet sea and need twitter followers to define your self worth. It is also true that many just do not know, they have never been exposed to the world of coins, nice collector coins. I recall a recent thread ATS where some of the junk that is for sale on ebay was being discussed. One post detailed how that forum member had contacted a seller asking why the seller felt that his circulated Sac dollar was worth $1,000. According to the post the seller replied that he/she was only 19 years old and had never seen such a coin so it had to be rare. Sadly between all the bogus stuff that gets listed/shown on places like etsy, fakebook, ebay, twitter, youtube, and even dealers that push the junk they need to get rid of; it is no wonder why there are so many misguided new collectors out there.

While it can be interesting, I find die polish lines to be a negative to the eye appeal aspect. How much it negatively affects eye appeal depends on the die polish itself, for me the worst is when the lines go both vertical and horizontal.

Super common on the zinc core copper plated cents that started in 1982, no collector that knows anything about coins will want to collect coins like this. As someone that has collected Lincoln cents for many years this look is not at all cool to me.

My bet is just an unusual toning pattern, but with the coin in the plastic I cannot tell from these photos if there is any raised or incuse metal on the coin.

Interesting, do you think that the three PCGS examples were a part of these five and crossed at some point or examples in addition to these five that NGC certified?

Gold looks smashing in that retro black holder, nice coin @Alex in PA.

Congrats on the hew addition!

I see no doubling or errors, just some lightly circulated coins and the last 1943 has environmental damage. And in case you are wondering, no none of these steel cents are worth submitting, the 1943-D might be uncirculated (difficult to be sure when the coin is in a 2X2) but a low MS grade at best the others are all AU or damaged.

Congrats on your new coin and happy birthday!!

Congrats! glad that you found one to your liking.

Yes in this photo you can see the top serf of a D mintmark in the upper loop.