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Hmm that is not good for sure, hope you can contact customer service and get some answers as to what the charges are for.

That is a cool change find, however no it would need to be UNC to be worth more than the silver value which is currently around $4.60.

I got here late but I'm not all that surprised by the grade, this coin seems to have a nice original skin and I am guessing that the coin has more color and underlying luster than the photos show. Those are two things that do well in the PCGS grading room, nice addition to your collection.

Without a photo its impossible to answer your question, there are a number of possibilities which run the gamut from improper storage to coins that may have been improperly dipped, or doctored and are now changing. Just from you description I'm leaning towards an improper dip and the dip residue has started to appear, but that is just a guess. If that is the case then I would say that you could see excellent results from the conservation process offered by NGC. However if what your seeing is a result of strong environmental conditions like high humidity and heat that your storage methods are not mitigating then I'm not certain that NGC would do anything as that would be considered natural toning. Again photos would help to give you any truly meaningful opinions, but at the end of the day it is up to the pros at NGC to make an in hand determination on what if anything they can do.

If you send that to a reputable TPG like NGC, PCGS or ANACS I am extremely confidant that you will not receive back a coin in a holder where the label reads DDO or DDR. Now if you send it to Joe's basement slabbing service no doubt that they will put anything you want on the label. So I challenge you to do just that, please send this in to NGC, show us the submission number, and show us the result of your submission. One thing is certain, you will be proven right or wrong; my guess is you will not take this challenge and/or show the results because you know we are correct but please prove me wrong. I have no problem with eating crow if I'm proven wrong, how about you?

You need to get yourself a copy of the redbook Like this this book has most of the info you are looking for. If you check it may be available at your local library also. What you have is a very well worn and slightly damaged 1927 Buffalo nickel, despite its old age the coin has very little collector value due to the poor condition of the coin. It would be a nice album filler for some buyers.

Add me to the fake camp also.

That is a really nice coin congrats on the addition!

I very much agree with you on this point, I love that NGC allows PCGS coins into the registry. But I think that when it comes to the awards those PCGS coins should receive a zero score and the awards should be biased on NGC coins only. Not just for this reason but hey this is the NGC registry after all, and in my case it would cause me to lose an award or three so I do have some skin in the game on this.

Thank you and a big hand to you for your registry wins including the journal award two years running, very nice accomplishment. I've been slowly increasing the number of wins for best in category, all together I have 31 best in category awards with the first two awarded in 2012 so it has been a nice run. Honestly I have not worried about the certificates much in the past, in fact I'm not even sure where I put the ones that NGC used to mail out automatically. I think I will have the one for my 1940 year set mailed this year, that is my moms birth year set so I was thinking I would frame it and give it to her. Thank you very much, and like Revenant a big congrats for your journal win. There are some really beautiful world coins out there, I think that one day I will do some research and find a series with a design that I really like and build some sort of world set. World coinage seems rather daunting looking through the window per se, so I'll have to dig in and review the sets in the registry and then begin the learning process before I start to buy. Thanks Rick, its a real pleasure working with you sir.

Well the 2020 registry awards are in the books, it was a good year for me with 6 best in category awards one better than last year. Hopefully I'll be able to make a couple of additions and hang on to those for next year, that task may be much more difficult depending on if the launce of the ANA registry brings in more heavy hitters from the PCGS registry. But maybe with a couple of adds here or there I can keep up on most of last years wins. Time to begin planning and chasing once again to further my collection and hunt down a few new coins for 2021, thanks to fellow forum member Six MiIe Rick I was able to add a few zincoln coins to my 09 to date Lincoln set already this year including my first shield cents.

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Lol thanks, but that was more of a joke post. While a few of my sets are eligible (because they have at least 75% or more NGC coins) none of them are the kind of sets that ever win the money categories and none of my sets; that do get considered for the money awards; are number one sets anyway so I knew I had no chance to win. I would need to win the lottery to have any chance to win anything other than best in category, which is still a nice accomplishment for someone of my financial means.

I see nothing that would convince anyone that you have a bronze 1943 cent.

Looks like the top of the "F" is missing due to a bit of grease in that section of the die. I only see some very minor strike doubling, common and adds no value.

I think this issue is less a problem with NGC coins and more an issue with PCGS graded coins. NGC can verify if another NGC member has the coin that is being added, but they have no way to know who really owns a PCGS graded coin, I could pull any PCGS graded coin out of any inventory, auction, or even another registry and claim it as my own. As long as it verifies on the PCGS verification page and nobody has it in a se here its good to go regardless of who owns the coin. I suspect this happens rather often.

A shout out to all the 2020 registry award winners!!

Very subtle colors on this one.

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This is one to stay away from, it appears to be cleaned and very possibly whizzed. Edited to add: the obverse does have the correct diagnostic die crack and I think the coin is a legit 14-D but the mm looks odd possibly due to the whizzing/cleaning.

I have no idea how this jeweler came to his conclusion that the coin has no silver but I'm highly skeptical of his determination that the coin has no silver content. I would not advise you to spend the money to have it tested further, but its your money so your decision to do so or not. I highly doubt that any TPG will slab it as an off metal coin so spending $40 to have it graded and slabbed would not be a smart decision.

Everything I see in your photos looks like strike doubling mixed with some die deterioration. If you look at the areas that seem doubled they are either squishy and/or lower in relief than the main design letters. That is because strike doubling happens when the dies are loose and they bounce at the time of striking which creates a second image that is lower than the main image/lettering. The ghostly looking parts can come from die deterioration or it happens because the copper plating is squeezed and deformed a little bit. This is very noticeable when you see a sliver of silver next to the letters and is called split plate doubling because the copper platting had been split open. None of this is a true double die because it happens due to striking issues, but these issues are within the mint tolerance for quality control. A true double die happens because the die itself has a double image pressed into it at the time the die is hubbed, in years previously the dies were pressed into the hub more than one time. As @Moxie15 noted the mint now uses a singe squeeze method to hub the dies so true doubled die coins are almost impossible on modern coinage.

Its more of a personal choice, some do feel that it is a better protection. I do all mine cropped because I want the viewers to be able to se the coin vs the slab. The only place that I would prefer to use a slab shot is in my custom set of old holders, this is one area that I would really like to see NGC (maybe something @Ali E. can look into) provide some different photo options for different sets. However the biggest complaint that I have is that so few registry participants post any photos at all, the whole point of the registry is to share and photos make that far better and more interesting. I've attached an example of what I try and do with my photos.