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Nice, I am a big fan of the seated design of all denominations. I only have some type pieces as most are rather pricey in the AU and BU grades, and it is indeed difficult to find nice unmessed with coins.

That is an attractive seated dollar @Walkerfan were you looking for one or did you just find each other.

It is worth $.01.

Some awesome top pops Rick.

I'll take this one, an 1843-D is unique.

Op, did you do any research to find out (or perhaps knew already) if proofs were coined for this type and year?

Well that's disappointing.

"winning by default" I can totally relate to this. While I did not win any financial awards I have 4 best in category awards for a set that had (still has) one coin in the set but to my surprise nobody else had or put together a set for several years. It was a very cheap win and fun in its own way for the time it lasted.

Great coins posted everyone, thanks to @Lem E, @Weidel Legacy Collection, for posting their coins, and @lehigh96 for his photos and the helpful info he provided. Please keep it going. This is in my 1940 year registry set, not the luster bomb like the first coin I posted but it has a bit more light lavender color than my slab shot shows

I just received an email informing that Brett Charville is stepping down as the president of PCGS. No timeframe was given just that he would be staying on until a replacement is named and the transition is complete. I do not remember just when Mr. Charville was named as the president of PCGS but it was not all that long ago, no details were given but this seems interesting given that PCGS recently was taken private after being a publicly traded company.

Yes steel cents from 1943 are very common, what is also very common with these coins is the number of them that have been reprocessed. They are so common that steel cents can be found in grades up to MS66 at very affordable prices, however avoiding the reprocessed coins is important. You should be wary of anyone advertising one of these steel cents as very high grade (MS67 or higher) that is not graded by a reputable TPG, those are very often the coins that have been reprocessed.

Slightly different scenario, you have a purpose and the knowledge of what the coins are worth. Don't get me wrong many coins are submitted for reasons other than purely financial gain, often times a sentimental coin is submitted for protection and even a special label. But I think the pandemic caused a lot of people to find the vast misinformation that is available on the net about the riches of pocket change and then began to submit all sorts of coins thinking that they had found ultra rare mint errors and things of that nature.

Not too far from where I grew up and my grandparents had a trading post on the Navajo reservation and relatives in Shiprock, they may have known Mr. Barnard.

Follow the NGC instructions found Here for submitting.

I think that its a bit of everything that has been mentioned plus one thing that I have not seen talked about yet, a large number of change searchers. Both here and on the PCGS forums I have seen a big increase in people that are asking about pocket change and "dad's" or "granpa's" coins and how to get those coins; most of which are usually not valuable enough to warrant grading; submitted for grading. A perfect example from the newbie board here is the guy that goes by modwritter, if you have read some of his posts he has sent in a number of coins that were not valuable or worth the cost of submission. Just tonight on the PCGS forum there are two threads asking if and how to submit the "fantastic" (which = AU or worse) condition Morgan dollars they recently came across in dad's collection. As a side note it does make you wonder if these are "hot" or truly a relatives coins, but that is a different discussion. So I think that the number of pocket change or low grade coins that are being sent in by unknowledgeable folks be they the youtube get rich quick type or the clueless to coins inheritance types has been one of many significant factors in clogging up the grading pipeline.

No body but the person that submitted the coin can tell you exactly when a coin was certified. However this generation of PCGS slab (gen 4.1) was used in early 2002 to late 2004. PCGS does not use cert numbers numerically.

Bump, the 40-D is sold!

Some very nice coins everyone.

The most famous "specimen" U.S. coin I can think of is the dollar owned by TDN, while I don't fully buy the story that is now being told with the coin it has been graded as a specimen by PCGS.

I would love to hear more on this subject of "evidence that gets habitually destroyed by the US Mint"; where are you getting your facts from to support this statement.

Without any photos it is impossible to give you any guidance other than it's worth the face value of one cent.

I was thinking that at lest one might be a white metal type but not at all familiar with these so than you for the additional info. And heck if it was easy anyone could find them, right.

This!! If you had a 55/55 the main 72/72 or another very well known and obvious DDO/DDR the TPG's will usually note those even without the variety service. But small minor DDO/DDR's, RPM's, VAM's, missing initials, and other types of minor stuff you need to pay extra for. The coin in your photos looks to have some die deterioration doubling.

Those are some very cool additions to your Alabama theme set @Woods020 I can see some copper pieces, are the others all silver or some other metals?