Coinbuf

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.

If you had a redbook you would have the info you need.

Just what I was thinking.

I was talking to a representative for Ship and Insure about reactivating my account there. She said she thought there was a discount for NGC members when shipping to NGC (and perhaps to CAC?) through FedEx. Is there any information you can provide on any shipping discounts available to NGC members. Regards

Read the thread on the marketplace section and your questions will be answered, keep in mind there are not a lot of active participants on this forum so you will not be getting tons of eyeballs seeing what your selling. Also this is not ebay and bidding threads are not allowed, its bad form and there are not enough buyers here for that to be useful anyway. Just my personal opinion you will have a much better chance to sell your items on ebay then here, and you can use the marketplace to advertise your auctions from places like ebay. Just be polite and don't spam the marketplace forum, threads shouldn't be bumped until they fall off the first page.

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.