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A bit dinged up, but I like the 2 cent coins; one of the series that I would like to put together if I get the time someday.

I can see the initials outline in your photo, they are there just very faint.

Welcome to the forum, clearly there is a market for cleaned coins because you bought the one you have. Now how big or vigorous that market is depends on the amount of damage done by the cleaning process and the rarity of the coin, in your case Charlotte gold is highly desired so it may not be discounted as heavily as say a common date 1881-S Morgan dollar. Photos of the coin would be needed for any of us to be more specific.

All I see is simple strike doubling on a well circulated nickel, which to be honest is what I expected to see.

While the op on the thread ATS was overzealous and underinformed in his attempt to fleece find an unsuspecting equally uninformed buyer, the thread did reveal some interesting information.

Slightly out of focus and the white balance seems to be off, keep practicing. From what I can see it seems a nice coin.

How about you show us some photos of this rare beast.

It is very sad that people ruin coins like this one, @Lacywebb why would you think this coin is in any way uncirculated? The coin has fine details but has been harshly scrubbed and all the numismatic value has been stripped away, leaving a details coin with a value that is no more than the value of the silver in the coin. If you can get someone to pay you $40 take it and run before the buyer changes his mind, this poor coin is only worth $25 give or take a buck depending on the spot price of silver.

I had to look up the prices as I do not follow these, and it does look like at least for the 21-D as the seller did well. According to the auction history I looked at only one coin sold for more ($24,600) in the previous eight years of auction data including those sold through GC. I did see where a GC auctioned a 23-S back in 2020 for $10,860 and S&B auctioned one for $8,400 also in 2020, however both of those coins were CAC approved where it seems this coin was not. So for these coins at least the seller was well rewarded, how did the more common date coins do in the sale?

I am not a collector of walkers as a series so I was not aware of the set being sold. That does seem to be a rather interesting choice of firms to auction off a high ranking set, not to disparage DLRC but I would have thought the seller would have gotten more eyeballs from Great Collections or Heritage. I have bought coins from DLRC and do watch their website for coins I'm interested in, but I do not think that they would be the first place on my list of auction platforms. What was the name of this set that was sold, I'm assuming that it has been deleted from the registry set list.

Beautiful 72/72 @tj96. Congrats on another beautiful half cent addition to your collection of fantastic half cents @The Neophyte Numismatist.

Not recently, but I have had this happen if I take a long time composing my post. As Roger said a simple refresh will restore what I have written and have no problem posting it.

A great story to sell a damaged coin, perhaps at some premium price.

Great memories!!

Back to the original question, I do not think this is a match for VAM5.

BU is a level of MS, if you were around in the years prior to TPG's many uncirculated coins were broken down into UNC, BU, and Gem. What you see in this ebay auction is a less expensive way for large submitters to get common date coins into holders for the mass marketers like HSN or QVC. Very popular when a common date MS62-MS63 Morgan was only worth$10-$15 but the holder made it easier to sell to the home shopping customer. I imagine this is still an available option to the bulk submitters, however with the rise in coin prices it may not be used as often.

That looks like a real beauty!! Congrats on the purchase of a true classic key date.

Sorry busy week, here is a photo of the plaque and the gift that NGC gives. I did remove my name from the photo since I'm posting on a public forum.

Just bullion, will not affect the value.

Not a "Buggs Bunny" variety for sure, and while perhaps technically a BU it's a low end BU or AU slider. There was a good discussion on the PCGS forum about UNC vs AU grading for the Franklin series just yesterday, I have included a link to that thread as it might be of interest to you @Mr.Bill347. UNC or AU

Being cautious of a key date raw coin is a good thing, that is not to say that there are not any good raw key date coins out in the wild. In addition to my slabbed coins, I myself have a 1909 SVDB in VF condition, as well as a 55/55 and a 22 plain in my raw dansco album. What is important is to know what you're looking at or buying from a trusted source, not some yahoo on etsy or fakebook. Knowledge is key in situations like this, that does not guarantee you cannot get burned but the more you know the less the risk. Now finally with the full coin photos I would say that from these photos the coin looks to grade VF30 which the price guides put at around $1,100 to $1,300 in value, so the asking price is not out of line for a nice original example. However, it also looks to have been cleaned in the past from the photos and as such should reduce the value to something more like the price of a Fine or VG price. As a comparison tool here is one of my 22 no D strong reverse coins, this is what a circulated VF coin should look like in my opinion.

Those are just labels done for some big outfits like HSN, those stars have nothing to do with grading.

Welcome to the forum, unfortunately you will need to tell us what you think is an error (and provide some in focus closeup photos of those areas you see) as there is no way we can see anything on an individual coin from this moon shot. The only thing I can say from your photo is that some of the coins look hazy and likely, the set was not stored properly. As a result the set is not one that many collectors would seek to own or would only buy at a discount. Sorry if that comes off harsh just telling the honest truth. Circling back to your comment on errors, if you think the set has a bunch of coins that are from a doubled die, the odds are that you are seeing reflections. Proof coins that are inside capsules or holders often produce reflections that many inexperienced collectors think is doubling.

Perhaps you can show us examples of these silver and gold stars; I can find no reference to any such animals on the NGC website.