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Why do collectors spend thousands on reholder fees so that they can have the most current holder/label or so the holder is not scratched? Why do collectors spend thousands of dollars to fly to FUN but come home with no coins only memories? Collectors spend lots of money on things that I do not consider important but that are important to them. Nice quality photos are important to me so I have no issue spending money on quality photos. Clearly I'm not suggesting to send an album of F/VF merc dimes for pro photos, but who knows maybe someone has. One of the best aspects of registry sets is the sharing of your sets with other collectors, sets with no photos or very poor quality photos are really not a joy to look at, speaking for myself only, I don't even bother to look at sets with no or junky photos.

Value is determined by the function of supply and demand, you may have the corner on high grade supply but without any demand the value can be limited. One aspect to demand for variety/doubled die coins like this is the inclusion in registry sets, when these variety coins get included in registry sets the demand is greater, somewhat at least. In this case the coin you have is not included in any of the NGC Lincoln registry sets, at least I have never seen it listed and I have half a dozen Lincoln registry sets. It is however listed and a required part of at least one registry set in the PCGS registry, that may explain why the two sales and the prices realized recorded at GC were PCGS graded coins. I am not a variety coin collector so the value of a coin like this is quite low to me, it doesn't have the wow factor like a 55/55 or 72/72. But to a Lincoln variety collector I'm sure that it would be quite sought after as I think the top pop for any of the PCGS graded coins is MS65RD. You would have the best chance to maximize your hammer price by crossing it over to PCGS, even if it fell a grade to MS65 it would tie for top pop and would be a prize for a motivated PCGS Lincoln variety registry collector.

If you are ok spending $2,500 in camera gear, lights, and imaging enhancement software then it is very easy to do-it-yourself and achieve professional quality photos. New cell phones are great and can take a decent photo, just not professional level. As to cost, most that I have used charge $10-$15 per coin, the problem these days is the shipping to and from the photographer is really expensive. @leeg I cannot help as I always use Mark Goodman for my photos, maybe contact messydesk and see if he is setting up at any of the east coast shows.

My last submission was a regular tier and took just over a month from the day I sent to received back, the grades were very close to what I expected. What I do not understand is why you did not submit the 20 or so Morgan dollars that you feel will exceed the econ tier value limit under the regular tier, that would have been the correct thing to do. NGC will simply adjust the tier for those coins which exceed the econ tier value limit of $300 per coin. Perhaps the dealer thought he was doing you a favor by submitting under the econ tier. Perhaps he is not expecting the high grade results that you are and felt the econ tier is the correct tier, difficult to say as we have not seen the coins. I hope you do well and please come back and share your results.

The only old album I have is a Merc dime LOC album that I have been slowly filling with F/VF coins. I doubt that I will ever bother with the 16-d as I have no interest in spending the funds to buy another.

Actually it is not an alt, just a name change to try and hide from his QA legacy, or whatever you call his history here.

What information leads you to believe that a "bleeding ear" (there is no such thing by the way) is sought after?

It was extremely prevalent years ago, today it is less so but still a common practice.

VAMworld is what your looking for. VAMworld

Welcome to the forum. This may be one side of a magicians coin, you can google that to see other examples. If that was the case it is missing the rev, or as you call it the tails side, which would have also been hollowed out and then fit into the side you have. It could also be the work of a bored machinist, either way it has no collector value, it could be of interest to someone that just wants a conversation piece.

This was an encased coin, that means the coin was placed into a holder that when squeezed into it caused the rim damage. Not necessarily this one but something like this.

Nope, just an ordinary cent.

Morgan dollars are a very iconic coin and have come to be a symbol of the wild west, even if that is not all that true. Still who doesn't like a pretty hunk of silver.

Yes there are some hairlines on the coin. The problem is that I cannot tell from these photos taken from one angle if those are from a cleaning or if they came from being slid across the bar top a few times. Would need to hold the coin and rotate it, even then it could end up a coin flip for cleaned or just circulation slide marks, obviously NGC decided that in hand it looks more like circulation wear than a cleaning. Maybe they are right, maybe not. You are correct, however, we can only offer the best (and sometimes the safest) opinions and advice we can from what are often very imperfect photos. And while the opinion of cleaned is given frequently, I don't think the members are accusing anyone of cleaning those coins, only that the coins have that appearance. Unfortunately many of those newbies take great offence to those honest and well-intentioned replies, written communication is less than perfect and we all (myself included) should and do strive to be as concise and correct as possible.

What does the holder it is in say?

In all honesty you could well lose value by crossing over to a new holder. Some of those early ANA type holders with the alpha/numeric cert numbers and gold foil hologram on the rev (see one of my examples below) are sought by collectors just for the holder. And attractive copper coins in those old holders are very highly sought after as that old holder shows the coin is stable and not messed with. You may have other reasons to want a new holder/crossover and that is your decision, just wanted to pass on that information in case you were not aware. If you have one of the newer style holders like the yellow colored label with the info printed along the top of the slab, those are not generally collectable for just the slab.

That is all well and good, however, you did not tag (by using the @ and then the users name) or quote the person (as I have done by quoting your post) so without that context it is impossible to know who you are addressing your reply to.

Welcome to the forum, I do not collect or know the Ike dollars so I will let someone else comment on that. In the future for us to really help you we need to see both sides of each coin not just the obverse. However, from your photos the Kennedy half looks to be in AU condition and the walker half's much lower in grade VG or maybe fine at best. As such all three have minimal to no collector value, their value is in the silver each coin is made of. Silver spot prices change constantly, but right now each of those three is worth $8.75 for the silver, a dealer would pay less than that as he has to sell them on to his wholesaler. If you were offered around $8 each that would seem close in my opinion.

Ok boucha, you have proven to me now that you are not serious about wanting help but just trolling, good bye.

100% damage, the 7 was hit by something and moved the metal, not an error. Copper is a soft metal and can be moved very easily. Many people come here looking for answers but are not willing to accept those answers when it doesn't align with what they want to hear.

Perhaps you meant to post a different coin, your title says 1961 but the coin you posted is a 1957-D which has some damage but no errors.

I would hold onto this one, yes there for sure is MD, but that split on the left side of the stars is interesting. As this is still a very new mintage there probably are not too many discoveries listed or found just yet. I would also suggest you post this on the CONECA forum for further replies and possible confirmation of MD only.

Does not look to be a clash mark to me either, die chip is the most logical explanation.