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I would suggest you look at the 1972 and 1970 rolls for any of the 1972 doubled die coins and the 1970S small date high 7 coins. There are a few other varieties which you can find listed in a cherry picker guide book also. The rest I would just turn in.

It would be very unfortunate if an 80% PCGS set were to win an NGC major registry award, and quite a slap in the face to those few dedicated NGC collectors who's sets are at or above the 75% NGC graded coins level.

Another incorrect statement, all your posts revolve around bashing US coin collectors, collecting style, and by extension their collections (which by the way is against the forum rules). Your constant bashing of US coin collectors here every day comes off as petty, and condescending, if that is who you are then so be it. It just seems to me that you could be doing much more with your time here than to constantly bash other collectors because they are collecting in a way that is different than yours.

Your photo on the coin in question is too out of focus for me to answer your question on the bands, but I would suggest that you get in the habit of using the tools that NGC provides. If you consult the NGC coin explorer (you can find this tool on the main page under resources) there is a great deal of information and photos of each coin in each series. Once you select a coin and date that you are interested in you can see the census data, NGC price guide, and other helpful information. With that information you can make a better more informed decision about what coins may be worth sending in and those that are so common it may not. There are also photos of NGC graded coins, some are very good high rez photos that registry members have provided, some are not quite as good but may help you to better ballpark what a coin might grade at vs your estimate of grade. As you did not provide a date I cannot say if the full band designation is easy or difficult to obtain for your coin, as noted above all proofs are expected to have full strikes so things like full lines are not designated.

There's your answer, for the record I would have called it BN from that one photo.

What does the holder say?

If there is a bias its out in the general marketplace, collectors are not always rational and the registry with its tie to value and market demand is just following the market. I cannot say that I've ever seen a time that any TPG was biased to a series. That is not to say that TPG's have not made announcements about new releases and perhaps added to the hype, seems like good business to encourage submissions to me; but that is not what I would call biased. As to the "non-competitive slots" I do not recall ever seeing that but perhaps I missed it. Sorta makes sense in some respect, after all there is a finite amount of the handful of truly ultra rare coins.

Your statement is not only rude and callous it is completely incorrect. Many collectors spend a vast amount of time to find and choose the coins they collect, that they happen to receive an award is not even remotely close to a participation trophy. Not every collector that uses the registry is trying to assert how big an appendage he has or is driven by an award, seriously just an insanely stupid thing to say by painting all registry participants with such a broad brush.

While I do not recall this series as I dont own or buy them; the registry points are very closely tied to value. There are other factors involved in the whole matrix that NGC uses to assign points but price (I believe this is biased on the price guide) is a large part of the equation. Again I don't have the specifics but I would bet that the prices tanked and because those are such a large part of the calc the registry points fell off the cliff shortly after. Despite what @World Colonial thinks the registry is not designed to give the lion's share of points only to "very common ultra-modern coins" on some arbitrary dart board style theory. No, again points are largely driven by price and price is driven by marketplace demand. Using your example as you noted those came out of the gates running and garnered lots of attention which drove the prices way up. Once the marketplace absorbed the series and the hoopla died down so did the prices and the registry points came back into line with the normal market value. This cycle happens with many new releases but it all has to do with market value not some tin foil hat conspiracy theory that is designed to reward modern coins.

From the two photos I only see a slight bit of strike doubling.

Thanks, so do I.

It has glue or some sort of residue on it, that accounts for the slightly overweight weight.

I did not make any statement about if or not coin talk provides any value to the coin collecting community; as I said I am not a member there nor do I spend time lurking there. How do you measure what each forum; here, PCGS, coin talk, and any other; provides? I think that each individual will make the assessment on if one or multiple forums provide him/her any knowledge or value biased on the individual needs and wants. I know of many people that do not find the PCGS forum a good use of their time and the opposite can be said of this forum, however I cannot say that I have ever seen anyone on either of those two forums (even banned members of one) call one or the other a scam.

You are incorrect, coin talk is not a scam, they are not gaining anything or stealing or taking anything from anyone. It was your choice to go there, open an account and post, the only thing you lost was your time which you gave by your own free will. I am not a member there but have heard from others that have also been banned that it is heavily moderated, the common thing all those individuals have is that they were all banned, so there is that. As a side note I did not see your name G_P when I did a google search for numismatist, the first thing to come up was wikipedia.

Welcome to the forum, the lack of reeding on the edge suggests that a broadstrike is one possibility. However the obv and rev look to have been subjected to a sander or other abrasive material. My best guess is that it was a broadstrike that has been subsequently damaged thru extensive circulation, more than normal wear due to not having a rim to protect the devices. The other possibility is some mechanical/abrasive process was done to try and simulate a broadstrike.

Welcome to the forum, on the NGC home page you will see a header of several topics. Hover the mouse over submit and a drop down menu will appear, click on how to submit and follow the three steps. Good luck on your grade.

I am looking for a 1955 in MS66 or 66+ RD and a 1909 VDB in 65 or 66 RD. Both must be NGC graded! LMK what you have.

I do not see any obvious signs that this is not authentic; however it has been cleaned/polished and between the polishing, corrosion/PVC spots and the rev rim nick I would advise against submitting it for grading.

Welcome to the forum, sorry for you loss. As you know from the prior replies just because a coin is old does not make it automatically valuable as a numismatic item, but priceless as a family keepsake. If you have other coins you can use the NGC resource function to get an idea of if any are rare or common, it can be found under the resources tab on the main page.

Interesting I was not aware of this work around, I just went and changed the own to want for one coin and it does indeed work. I was also able to change it back to owned and all the purchase info was retained so no lost data either. Thanks!

I think Woods nailed it with the VAM25, but double check VAM world for all the markers to be sure.

A photo of the date would help to id this, could be VAM 25 or VAM 44

The 75% rule is only for the major award winners, those winners receive a cash or equivalent award. The best in category awards are not part of the major awards and are not subject to the 75% rule. From the registry rules for major awards: "The winner in each of the following categories receives a plaque, a $500 NGC grading credit and an icon of recognition on their NGC Registry profile. At least 75% of the coins registered to a set must be NGC-certified to be eligible for one of the major awards." So this new set will win the best in category but cannot be considered for a major award as constructed.