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Keep in mind that its at least possible that some of what you see is on the slab not the coin, photographing proofs is a tricky business and you can get some weird image effects. I'm not saying that's the case with these two but notice the lettering on the second coin linked, that is almost guarantied to be a photo effect so its at least possible that some of the other stuff could be as well. Just goes to show that nothing beats an in hand view. Having said that coins do turn in holders many times after grading.

Neither of those cert numbers are valid when I attempted to verify them on the PCGS site. If you have not done so I suggest you try and verify these two cert numbers yourself, here is a link to the PCGS site. https://www.pcgs.com/resources Up in the right hand side you will see an icon for verify, click on it and input your numbers, both the numbers you provided in your op (501172604, and 501172603) are not currently valid. Some reasons for this might include a typo error in your request/post, a mechanical error on the part of PCGS, and other reasons. You would need to contact PCGS customer service to determine the problem and see what can be done to resolve the issue. Note I do not work for NGC just a collector giving you some free advice.

Not long ago the ANA suspended/postponed the show in hopes of finding an alternate site, I received an email today that the show is now officially canceled for 2020. I think most fully expected this outcome but still sad news.

Except that its a 1982 non error.

Hard to discern the depth of the marks from the photos the one above the instrument looks more like a scrape. Sometimes with large heavy coins like Morgan dollars you will see scrapes like this from a coin that contacted and slid along the surface of the coin. But down by the date looks more like damage/scratch.

Super funny but please don't, you just know someone will think its a real thing.

Lol, lucky for me I don't collect modern silver rounds so I don't have to get used to it, and even if I did I'd wait it out for the price to drop in a year or so.

Well that's a price you can go broke on.

In my experience the GC photos are brighter and sometimes a bit washed out while the Heritage photos are often dark and lifeless. I do suspect that the coin composition (copper, silver, etc) will vary between the two. I would also say that the Heritage photos were better some years ago than what I see today, the coin posted was from 2004, that same coin photo would be darker here is a current buy-it-now Heritage inventory photo of the same date as the 1925 in my post, this is an MS67 mine was MS66.

I just realized my post may have not been clear, my comment about the photos was directed to Heritage and not Great Collections. Heritage photos tend to be dark and not very good for many of the coins, GC photos do at times receive criticism but are better than Heritage photos most of the time imo.

I have purchased a handful of coins over the years thru Heritage auctions, but the high seller fees make it an unattractive unless you have some major rarieties. In fact they aren't really all that interested in consignments under 5K. For selling Great Collections is a much better option for most collectors. While they do have a ton of photos (Heritage) their photos leave much to be desired much of the time. Edited to add here is one I bought many years ago.

He is only coning himself.

Does not look plated but treated with something to get the blue color. And the lines do look like damage from tape.

Really nice coins!

You don't understand, sometimes the dies used for striking (not printing) coins will have grease in a small area of the die and a few coins that are minted before the grease falls out may have soft or missing details. Your photos are too small and become too pixilated when I enlarge to see any details, if you want further info please post a clear cropped photo of both sides of the coin in question so we can see what your describing. Missing details from a grease filled die are very common and do not increase the value of the coin.

I don't recall seeing him post here, at least not recently. He does post on the PCGS forum.

Where do we get the hook up?

Have to be somewhat torn on this, on one hand the engraving is beautiful and so well done. On the other hand that is a seated dollar.

Thanks Lisa.

Damage from wire cutters.

It can and does happen, usually its a by product of improper storage. Some people very much like toned coins and some do not, deep cameo refers to when a coin looks black and white. The fields will look black and the portrait/letters look white (copper in the case of cents). I don't have a photo of one of my DCAM Lincolns so I pulled this obv from the NGC explorer.

Sorry but just Pareidolia, a fancy way to say that the mind sees what it wants to. That is not even close to the size or shape of the mint mark used for nickels.

Looks to be just MD (mechanical doubling) or die erosion not a true double die. This type of doubling is very common and very often mistaken by new collectors, MD is not valuable or collectable. I've attached a photo to help demonstrate the difference.

Welcome to the boards, you are more likely to get replies by starting your own thread instead of piggybacking on another one. Also most of the replies to questions in this section are answered by fellow collectors (like myself) and/or dealers not by employees of NGC. The way to tell the difference is that employees will have a light blue background surrounding their name everyone else is dark gray. As to your question die cracks and die chips are interesting but do not; in most cases; add any value so there is no reason for folks to pay (grading plus the extra fees for variety/error service) to send them in. Submitters of modern coins are mostly interested in ultra high grades, only an extreme die crack or large retained rim cud would be worth the money to send in. So while NGC graders may have seen many 2020 dimes, I doubt that any have been submitted for the reasons you ask about.