Coinbuf

It can be a keeper if you want it to be, your photos have so much glare it is difficult to see much of the coin. I think Mr. Lange is correct and I also think that it was struck thru grease, that is why some of the reverse lettering is missing. I do not see any double strike or ghosting that you are, perhaps photos without the glare might shed some light on what you see.

Welcome to the forum, without photos about all we can offer is guesses, I can think of a couple of possible issues. First if the coin came into contact with something before it left the mint, perhaps in the packaging phase at the mint. Second it could be a mechanical error, this happens when an employee at NGC makes a mistake when entering the data and/or creating the label. If the coin is still at NGC I suggest that you contact NGC customer service and see if it is possible to double check this before it is shipped to you. And third humans are not perfect and the graders may have got it wrong, I consider this third possibility the least likely but still it can happen. If you have the coin back I suggest that you look it over very carefully, you will need to use a good light and tile the coin around to look for small hairlines. These can be very difficult to detect sometimes until the light hits them just right.

Good to know how the process works, I am not a variety collector or hunter so I have seldom sent in a variety for grading.

My apologies to the op @blinewalker I was incorrect in my previous post, I had looked it up on my phone in a hurry and did not look at the correct DDO on VV. It does appear that your coin does match to the VV photos for DDO-007, again my apologies for my incorrect attribution.

Here is a page copy of the price guide in the NGC explorer page for the 1897-O Morgan dollar. This coin is a better date and very expensive in the mint state grades, however your coin is very far from mint state. Your photos are not good enough to say for sure if the coin has been cleaned, but they are good enough to say with certainty that your coin will not grade better than XF and a details grade is very possible due to the rim dings. As you can see below the NGC price guide for a straight grade XF is $70, it will cost you $40-$50 to have it graded by NGC or PCGS (ANACS is a much cheaper option). If you lucked out and it straight grades you might come out ahead by perhaps $20 or $30 after the costs to have it graded and if you are able to sell it for full retail. It seems a very big gamble for an iffy $30 payday but that is your choice to make. Eddited to add: As I type this there are 7 XF40 1897-O Morgan dollars for sale on eBay, priced from a realistic $68 to a very hopeful $140. 1897 O $1 MS Last updated 05/19/2021 BASE  PrAg G VG F VF XF 50 53 55 58 60 61 62 63 64 $40 $45 $47 $50 $52 $70 $90 $120 $180 $375 $1100 $1375 $2000 $4350 $12500

I do not stack metals, at least not the precious type, I stack ammo and guns. If the world goes so far off the rails that the US dollar is worthless all that silver will be too, it won't do much to stop a bullet.

Well that does make it more difficult alright, Bobby is correct that the error market is difficult to value. That segment is a small slice of the pie and values vary greatly depending on the selling venue and the number of error collectors that see it at the time it is for sale. I suggest that you contact Mike Byers Website and see if he can help you with some thoughts on value.

So what did Mike say caused this?

You do not have an example of DDO-007, you have a proof coin with a slight amount of strike doubling nothing else. As to why NGC does not recognize DDO-007 I cannot say, perhaps they do not feel it is significant enough to warrant recognizing it. If you ever do actually have an example of DDO-007, you could always petition NGC to add it to the list of recognized varieties, it is possible that it is not on the list because no one has asked it add it.

Well what you paid for it is at least a starting point.

Yes, it presents as a cleaned coin with all those hairlines.

Welcome to the forum @EMILY BALLEW I'm sorry that you got that bad information on your coin, likely just that the dealer did not take enough time to properly assess your photos that you sent to him. Unfortunate but mistakes do happen, the forum members above were able to show you the difference and between your (and the op's) coin and a true struck thru cloth.

No, it looks like a matte finish because the op is using a microscope and the scope light is making it look funky.

Nice catch on the doubled die.

Better left as is, conservation cannot make that coin into something it is not.

Yep large date, here is a great visual that member greenstang has posted before.

I see nothing in those photos to indicate an overdate, seems that the seller is either not knowledgeable enough to know or is trying to pull a fast one.

Acid

All I can say from your photos is you have a Lincoln cent dated 1957.

From a financial standpoint it is not really worth the cost, from the photo I would guess AU58 to MS62 max. NGC"s price guide shows this coin valued at $54 in AU58, $72 in MS62, worth $45ish just as it is. I would get an inexpensive holder, say a nice single coin Capital holder or Kointaine; and enjoy the coin as a wonderful remembrance from you aunt. The money you would spend on grading/encapsulating a very common coin in a very low grade could be used to buy another coin or reference book.

That is a very nice looking coin, congrats on a nice addition with that 40 - S half in 67+ CAC Actually the closing price for that 40 - D Lincoln was very cheap, most that I have seen offered for sale on dealer websites have been closer to $1,200-$1,400. That is why I have said that getting a 40 - D in 67+ is currently not worth the cost, too much money for the low points it receives in the registry. If you check the possible scores even a top pop MS68 (only 1 at NGC and 4 at PCGS) receives only 100 more points than one graded as MS67, it's crazy really. I suppose if I found one that was a real screamer I might someday consider upgrading if the price was right, but I can think of lots of other coins I would prefer to spend a grand+ on than this coin. But rest assured I am not sitting on my laurels.

Guaranteed authentic, If it is real, which it might be, AU 55 or 58.

It looks like a standard well worn Lincoln cent to me.

US coins only, they have never allowed PCGS graded coins into the world sets as far as I know.

Brad, have you matched your coin to one of the 12 OMM's listed on Variety Vista? OMM-11 Your closeup photo is too dark to see much and the well lit photo too far away. From what I can see you might have a match for OMM-11, but I just cannot tell for sure from your photos.