Coinbuf

Not much of a secret

Welcome to the forum, you need to stop using extreme magnification when looking at coins; at the micron level everything looks like something. Its called Pareidolia, the mind sees what it wants to see.

Moxie15 referenced the CPG (cherry pickers guide) in his reply; the CPG lists the major or more interesting and sought after varieties. You are correct that Variety Vista lists several minor DDO's (5) for the 1945-S; but as I said these are minor DDO's which have little to no premium to many collectors. Getting back to your op Variety Vista doesn't list any S/D OMM for 1945-S, and I couldn't find any reference to a 1945-S/D on any of the other Lincoln cert sites that I use either. I see no signs of any doubling or of any OMM on the photos you posted, but the photos are not good enough to be able to say for sure as the DDO's listed on VV are very minor.

The coin appears to have been damaged, perhaps caught in something that spins like a coin counting machine, which damaged the rim area.

There are no known RPM's for this date/mm.

No not a ddr, you can see this on thousands if not hundreds of thousands of zinc cents.

This is often called a mechanical error as someone typed the info incorrectly when creating the label, happens more often than you might think at all the TPG's. There might be collectors that would place a small premium for this and while I wouldn't think it would be much collectors surprise me all the time on what and how much they are willing to pay for some things.

As Greenstang noted these love tokens are actually quite popular with a small segment of collectors, I have no idea of value as I'm not part of that segment but if you search the ebay sold listings you may be able to get a ballpark figure. I don't know of anyway to pinpoint its creation, but the darker areas of the hand carved design suggest that the work was done quite some time ago.

What I can make out from the photos is you have a very common Mercury dime dated 1943 coined at the San Francisco mint, just over 60 million were made that year at that mint location. The coin looks to grade AU possibly cleaned with some black crud on both sides, your photos of the mintmark are blurry but it might be RPM-004 but clearer photos would be needed to confirm the RPM. I would not consider it special, if confirmed the RPM while interesting is minor and adds little to nothing value wise to the coin. What I would do with it is to put it in a plastic flip and hope that silver goes way up to the point that I could sell it when melt prices peak, what you choose to do with it is your call.

The photos have far too much glare and are out of focus to give any thoughts on condition, however that nasty scratch is clearly visible and destroys any numismatic value.

I agree not the big money one, hard to tell with all the glare but it just looks like MD.

An undated memorial off-center error, I don't buy or collect errors so I have no idea of value; but there are collectors that do/will buy these types of errors.

Old coins are not all valuable, this is a very common coin which is damaged and corroded and really only worth its face value of one cent.

I think in the end this is simply toning that just happens to align and look like the letter "T" when the light hits it just right. The fact that it disappears when rotated into a different light orientation pretty much nails it down, its kinda cool but I wouldn't spend money to have it certified. I did post the op's photos on the PCGS board with his permission and a very well known error dealer on that board said "Not a dropped letter - my first thought was the T from Liberty, but it doesn't line up at all. Pareidolia, imo"

One from my 7070 album.

Possible a clash from Liberty on the obv? Seems in the wrong place, too far to the center, but the size looks more correct. Edited to add do you mind if I post your photos on another board, there are some error experts there that might also offer an opinion.

I often wonder if some of the terms came about as something of a regional thing, almost like a dialect for some language's.

Its more old school terminology that was used by dealers before TPGs came along and began to use each number. An MS64 would often be called near gem or almost gem, today most are used to using the Sheldon scale so you don't see these descriptors used as often.

Some cool tokens fellas, I don't own any so I'm enjoying seeing yours.

It was something of a blood bath this week, I think the mods over there are of the young generation which values the safe space concept so they are quick to banish. Like you both I appreciate NGC's more layed back stance, however that does have its own thorns from time to time as we have seen over the last week on the newbie question section with one unhinged individual. But for the most part its far more comfortable here without the ax hovering over you as it is there.

Nice coppers, things move slowly on this forum so don't be surprised if you don't get responses right away.

These are large bulk orders done for the big telemarketers that you see hawking coins on TV or in large ads in magazines. I'm not a fan of this type of thing but they are usually very common dates and sold to a non collector market for the most part. Also BU is not MS60 to MS67, BU is used to describe coins that generally fall into the MS60 to MS63 grades. Gem BU is used for MS65 and up.

I certainly can relate to this complication.

Those can be found on the internet without going to a shop

Nice deal, now you need an open coin shop to find something to submit.