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I'm not up on the nuances of bust dimes, there seems to be some corrosion and the fresh looking scratch on the rev (right wing as viewed) is of concern. I am not sure about a straight grade but would not completely rule it out, I would do the research on it and then put it in my type set album and enjoy it.

It would cost you more to have it graded than it will be worth after grading, enjoy the coin for what it is, as it is.

There is no one place for consistent pricing info anymore, the market prices are all over the place due to factors like tone and CAC. The best place to get a sense of recent pricing is to look at closed auctions from Heritage, Great Collections, David Laurence, Stacks, and ebay. This will work for most of the US coin market unless the coin is very rare or seldom sold/auctioned. You take those numbers,(throw out any abnormal high or low) to get an average of what is crossing the auctions for, I then compare to the price guides and figure that somewhere in the middle is approx retail. But as I said if the coin is vividly toned then all bets are off and prices can be well over the norm and price guides. If the coin is CAC approved I also check the CAC website for their price guide.

Sadly he is not being sarcastic, he would indeed submit a coin like the coin pictured by the op; he has the disease like another member on the forum ATS. I am in complete agreement with you that the op would be wasting money by submitting the coin shown, it is not a DDO and is worth $.50 at best.

Congrats, a very nice find.

Gave it a little price bump, doubt that will be enough to win it tho.

This forum has a somewhat small level of active members so dividing into smaller groups is usually not beneficial. I am not a roll searcher myself but there are a few here that are doing that so my suggestion is to start some new posts on what you are doing and finding and develop the friendships from that. Just don't be discouraged if you do not get lots of reply's immediately, things move at a leisurely pace here.

Welcome stick around and enjoy, some discussions are very good with solid information passed around and others are less so.

I only see one photo of an ASE rev, perhaps you would care to provide us with additional information such as the obv photo and other data you have.

Your photos are out of focus and blurry on my monitor, no way for anyone to give you any advice from what I see.

Welcome to the forum, unfortunately your photos are too blurry and out of focus to provide you with any guidance on a grade or submission worthiness. There have been few auction records in the last couple of years, I could only find one from 2019 and that was an MS65 that sold for $30. The SBA coins are a short series and not a very popular series for collectors but if you were able to get a grade of MS66 or better it would be worth getting graded. However as I said there is no way to guess if your coin can grade that high from the photos.

There is no right or wrong way to collect, the above advice is spot on and what to collect is a very personal choice. I chose Lincoln cents as I find the life and history of Lincoln to be very compelling and immensely interesting to me. I also chose to do the full date/mm set for the challenge due to the immense size of the set (142 coins in the 09-58 set alone) where a date set, or proof date set, would have been much smaller and far easier to complete and perhaps less expensive. Consider the costs such as initial cost of the coins, storing the coins can be costly as a large slabbed set like mine does take up a few bank boxes to store, the look you want as in mint state or circulated; all these and more can factor into your choice. I would suggest going to a show if possible and looking thru the registry sets available here to see what piques your interest; date sets, full sets, type sets, sub sets, toned sets, sets biased on a theme US sets, world coin sets; they are all possibilities. Just remember that its a hobby and to have fun, if you start down one direction you are always free to put that on pause to pursue a different direction should you find your first choice not to your liking.

Copper has some interesting color reactions to many common household cleaners, including dish soap and laundry detergent, much of the color change depends on what is on the surface of the coin.

It looks like strike doubling but can you provide a photo of the full obv, sometimes those microscope closeups distort things.

You should be publicly flogged for pushing garbage like that 44-S.

Looks like a couple of die chips, not at all unusual to find on coins from the 1950's due to over worked dies. They can be cool but not worth much, perhaps a couple of bucks to the right buyer.

Thank you, I appreciate everyone for your thoughts and knowledge that was shared on this thread and subject. Everyone has a lot on their plate this year but it never hurts to take a moment and think and discuss about the hobby/business including how our actions or inactions can affect others in ways we may never expect or consider.

The details are in the F12 or just under level, but the environmental damage is bad. I would guess that it could get graded as VG details but I have no idea if the cost of slabbing could be recouped. Much like the 1806 you posted this is a coin that is better left/sold/collected raw, just my opinion.

If I were grading it I would call it details, just my opinion but that is a great coin for an album not a great coin for a slab.

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Thank you, we will agree to disagree, it was a very good and civil discussion which does not always happen on the internet. Have a great week.