Coinbuf

My guess is the top photo is natural light (diffused or a cloudy day), the middle is axial, and the last is offset.

Your photos are way out of focus, however this is such a bad fake that it can be called even with photos this out of focus.

I suggest you ask this in the "Ask NGC" section, NGC representatives do look at and respond to questions like this here now and again but your more likely to get your answer in that area.

Currently there is an active (and coming) auction on Heritage that's at $230 for the three piece restrike set with 5 or so days left. I would check the Heritage prior auction archives as well as ebay completed sales for more price data on these restrikes. Ebay finished auctions will be the most likely source for pricing data on the bars.

Welcome to the boards, if you read the posts above yours 5.88 is at the upper end but within the tolerance range for clad quarters.

I stand corrected, a signature on a label isn't something that holds any interest for me so I guess I never bothered to wonder or look into it.

Generally no in fact I'm not aware of any signed label where each and every label was individually signed, on some occasions the signatory might do a signing event at a show but those signatures are on the outside of the slab not on the slab label.

Hmmm it looks like an 1881-O to my eyes, either way its a very common coin that shows damage from the belt mount. I wouldn't bother trying to clean it as it has no numismatic value over the silver melt value.

I think its just the lighting, looks like an average 68-S proof Lincoln to me worth about $5 or so.

Welcome, lots of sharp people here that can help you with your questions. Just a clarification point, Indian head cents are not wheat cents, Indian head cents have a portrait of Liberty wearing an American Indian headdress on the obv with an oak wreath on the rev. Wheat cents (or wheatbacks and wheaties as they are sometimes called) were produced after the Indian cent and feature the portrait of Lincoln on the obv with two curved wheat stalks on the rev.

You will need to provide a photo that is in focus for us to be able to help you with your questions, Also please crop and properly orient your photos, looking at a speck sideways on an acre of background is annoying.

If real the error outweighs the possible 5 FS from a value standpoint. The small clip looks good but the larger missing section edge is rather sharp rather than having a slight bevel so it gives me pause. I'm not an error expert tho so hopefully someone else with more expertise can chime in.

Very difficult to judge from your photos as there is a lot of glare on the original two pics. But I've taken your photos and highlighted a couple of areas that from the pics should disqualify this coin from a FS designation. I have circled the two spots in red, the steps under the second column look to be blended and the hit under the third column cuts across two or three steps. One or both of these issues should preclude a FS; however; photos can be deceiving due to angle and light bounce. As you have the coin in hand only you can decide if those two areas are as they appear in the photos. Also grades and designations (like FS) are opinions; opinions that can and do change from grading company to grading company and in many cases from day to day. So just because one company calls a coin FS doesn't guarantee that another TPG will agree, or even that the same company will give the same grade and designation if submitted at a different time.

The cert numbers don't help as in order to look up a cert we would need at a minimum the grade in order to do a cert lookup. And jmho few will spend the time to do a cert lookup for every cert you have listed. I suggest if you want people to buy anything you edit your post to include the date, mm, series, grade and asking price; nobody has a clue what your selling as your current listing is setup.

Smart decision.

For world coins I would agree that the number of raw coins far outweighs the number of slabbed, thus the opportunity for significant pop increases is a risk if playing the top pop game. For US coinage, and especially the key dates, the number of graded examples (especially high grade coins) is higher than the raw coins. However because of the constant crackout game the pop reports are totally useless for a great many US coins.

Not enough info to answer your question, what does "on about the 13" mean?

Send those in right away, your a millionaire!! Ahhh no just kidding those coins are just worth a penny and are not errors just damaged coins as you were told on your other thread where you posted these.

Just damaged coins no numismatic value whatsoever.

The shinny appearance makes me think its plated which could very well account for the weight.

I an wondering if this coronavirus scare and the recent stock market devaluation that is in part tied to this issue will have any effect on auctions and coin buying in general. Often when something like this happens the "non-essential" spending is put on hold, do you think this will have a short/long term effect on the spending habits of collectors?

Does anyone have an example of what the photo vision looks like that they are willing to share? I have a couple of coins I'd like to submit and am wondering if the $8 is worth the price. In the past I have mostly used Mark Goodman for pictures, and while I consider him the very best if NGC does a good job I might opt for that on these to save the extra shipping costs.