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Agree 100% with Mike's assessment, worn out die produced some MD/die erosion doubling. Neither that or the die chip in the mintmark has any numismatic value.

Agree.

In my experience it will automatically be updated, hopefully one of the NGC registry team members will confirm this and be able to tell you when the update will occur on Mon AM.

Welcome to the forum, the most likely possibility is a die chip that over time with circulation wear has softened the edges and made it look this way.

I have both the Dansco and the Intercept Shield, I think the Dansco is a slightly nicer quality item but the IS album provides better protection. If you live in an area that is damp humid then the IS likely will provide better long term storage for BU coins. If the coins are lower grade circulated like say VF or F then either of the two will be fine. On the 09 SVDB, just an outside the box suggestion. If the rest of the set is mint state you may be able to find a nice inexpensive counterfeit to fill the spot and not have to stretch the budget. That way the coins will look uniform but you will not be spending the 2K for a mint state example As long as you know and document that it is a counterfeit so that any heirs know what to expect then it could be a low cost alternative. 09 SVDB's are not at all rare and are very overpriced imo, I was lucky to buy my MS64RB coin many years ago before the prices ballooned to todays prices. If the set is mostly or all circulated coins then finding a nice VF or F will be much easier on the budget to start with and are usually not hard to find.

It won't give you more for a specific grade just more photos than the two or three that initially pop up. The additional images will show up in grade order, there is no way to only see a specific grade as far as I know.

Just one clarification, there is the ability to see more than just the two or three that pop up initially. There is a button to click "see more images" that will allow you to see other images.

The NGC coin explorer is the best tool that I am aware of here on the NGC site; the only issue is that there are only photos that have been uploaded by the individual members of their coins and the quality of the images is very hit or miss. PCGS has coinfacts which is a similar tool, unfortunately several years ago most of the coinfacts photos were purged as members were using coinfacts images to point out the rampant gradeflation. However photos have been slowly being repopulated back into coinfacts, this is good and bas as those photos are only the glamor shot TV photos taken by PCGS. While the photos are high quality I have on many an occasion seen coins that look very little in hand like the TV shots.

Love the buffs

Gotcha that is very weird, I cannot recall ever looking back at sets but just checked one and mine are also showing the top pop icon for non top pop coins in prior years. That is a very interesting glitch.

Damage in the form of corrosion.

Must have just been a temporary glitch, the top pop icons are not showing right now for your set.

This thread sure has had a workout recently.

I concur it does look to be a good match for FS-501.

I see no doubling of any kind, just a damaged quarter worth $.25 assuming that you can find someone that wants to touch it.

Seriously I take the time to explain the system to you and you reply with that, very uncool. I'll try and use less big people words for you next time.

Just a coin that has had a rough life, varying levels of silver toning is not uncommon for Lincoln cents depending on the environmental and human factors it as been exposed to. They are also often nickel and silver plated for novelty items and just because people get bored.

Actually I do understand how its generated, that is how I know its a meaningless stat, I think you are confusing two separate issues as the same. When you added new sets and incorporated your current coins into those new sets you may have gotten different scores in one (or more) of those new sets for that same current coin depending on how the points are calculated in each set. Here is an example, your 1891 CC $5 coin in listed in two sets CC Rider & Puzzle Box Gold and also in the Puzzle Box Gold set. In the CC Rider set the coin is given a score of 11,078 points however in the Puzzle Box set it receives a score of 37,726 points. The software will automatically pick up the higher of the two point values and use the 37,726 points when calculating the top collector points. The reason your top collector score went up is that in one or more of the new sets your current coins received a point increase that was greater than it had received in the original set. I did not try and figure out which coins that is (way too much work), you can if you choose to. And to prove my point if you add the registry points of each of your 8 sets together you get 99,923 pts, but your top collector point total is 67,820; obviously if every coin was being added to both your individual set and the top collector points every time you started a new set with the same coins these totals would be exactly the same, clear enough.

So expected that I did not even look.

Something to also consider when looking at this and similar coins and guessing a TPG grade is the effect of the pop numbers. For example NGC shows 55 in MS65 and 3 in MS66 for the RB color, while only 5 in MS65 and 1 in MS66 for RD no plus graded coins in either group. PCGS pop report shows 55 in MS65 and 1 in MS66 for RB with 29 in MS65 and a lone MS65+ in the RD group. Interestingly both services have higher pops for BN as NGC shows 4 at MS66 and PCGS shows 1 with a lone MS66+ for brown coins. For what its worth I would take my coin over any (save that 66+BN as its gorgeous) that I seen photos of or in hand The point I'm making is that like it or not the pops do have an influence on what happens in the grading room, graders may not be looking up pop numbers but they are aware of these things and it can have an effect at some subconscious level. These numbers also influence my thought process on if I would want to crack and resubmit, I'm already near the top and it would suck if I were to crack it and get a lower grade or even an opinion of recolored.

There is pretty toning and there is corrosion, these border on the corrosion side, I would not personally pay very much, maybe $15 and $3; however I also did not do any research to see if either is some type of variety that could add value. Certainly there will be other collectors that might be willing to pay more especially for the 36-S if they like the toning.

Thank you for the kind words sir; NGC graded it as MS65RB, there is some light tan coloring that does not show up as much in this photo as it does in hand. The strike is MS67 quality and the luster would support an MS66 grade; while I will never know for sure I suspect that the two dark spots on the reverse are what held it back in grade. CAC liked it enough to give a green bean, so your MS66 guess is very close. I have considered cracking it and sending to PCGS just to see if it would go MS66, but I'm not one for those kind of games.