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That particular alteration seems to have occupied the idle moments of many a young man at a time when large cents still circulated. I've seen several examples, and all were of the Braided Hair type.

From NGC's VarietyPlus website: https://www.ngccoin.com/variety-plus/united-states/dimes/mercury-dimes-1916-1945/819870/

The 1945-S Micro S is a variety NGC will add for no additional charge if the submitter notes it on the form. Either this was not done or the coin was part of a bulk submission, in which case no one would have been looking for the variety.

VarietyPlus is linked to Explorer, but it's a stand-alone site in its own right.

NGC used letters A, B and C to sort the SS Republic coins that had to be Details Graded. A was the least impaired, B a little more so and C was a coin that was pretty badly corroded. It may be that this one was flagged to be labeled SHIPWRECK EFFECT A and was never reholdered. I'm very surprised that it left the premises.

It's scratched on the obverse and a bit weakly struck at places on the reverse. Those are not mint errors.

in fact Ohio was the center of US coin collecting for a long time And the birthplace of so many 19th Century USA presidents.

Strike doubling only --- not a variety.

It appears to be a commercial watch fob for sale as a remembrance of the late queen who, while getting mixed reviews during much of her reign, was widely loved by the time of her death.

William Gladstone was the UK's prime minister off and on from 1868 to 1894. The medal celebrates the 1884 Reform Act which extended enfranchisement (the right to vote) to farm laborers and others previously excluded from the political process. Evidently, a public event was staged in Dundee, Scotland.

The Old San Francisco Mint, formerly open as a museum, has a marvelous old Victorian boiler in its basement. It's perhaps not quite as grand as the Corliss Engine (now gone), but it's still remarkable how much artistry was lavished on a utilitarian machine. The museum is no longer operating, but the building is occasionally utilized for public and private events. The structure itself and its charming interiors typically outshine the occasion being celebrated.

Typically, NGC performs this work only when necessary to determine composition, as with many pattern coins, mint errors, etc. It will perform this work at a customer's request for a fee. It used to be $75, but I don't know whether that figure is still current. I can't imagine it ever being done "routinely," given the huge number of coins that come through here daily.

During the 1930s the Treasury Department issued lists of all circulating coins available for purchase at face value plus postage. This included issues going back as far as 1921. The sale of coins to collectors was suspended during WWII, and starting in 1948 the Treasury offered only pre-packaged, double mint sets for sale. These were priced and sold only during the year after the coins' date, as the prices were determined by which mints struck which denominations. Thus, the sets offered in 1948 were for 1947 coins. The double sets mounted in cardstock were replaced with single sets in pliofilm sleeves starting 1959.

There's nothing about it that sets off any alarms, but that's as much as anyone can say without seeing the coin in hand.

Your cent does indeed have Strike Doubling, which is the traditional term for what some upstarts now call Machine Doubling or Mechanical Doubling.

I'm not a fan of Saflips for submissions to NGC, but it seems that about 5% of our customers use them. Their corners are indeed weaponized, and they can be quite brittle. It's not unusual for me to get a box of coins in which several of the Saflips have split along the folds and are now in two pieces. NGC won't prohibit their use, but the soft flips are really better for the relatively short time that the coins will be stored in them before slabbing.

Yes, NGC will be accepting submissions at the Baltimore show. I'll be working the booth myself, along with several other members of the NGC/PMG teams. Typically, we stop taking submissions around 11am on Saturday, since we have to have everything boxed when FedEx arrives. We strongly urge that you have your forms filled out before coming to the NGC booth, because there are a limited numbers of chairs available. At this show there are several large, round tables in the open area in front of the grading services that are suitable for filling out paperwork. If we're really busy, a person filling out forms at the booth may be asked to relocate to the tables until ready to submit.

Yep...and we've lost an important resource for research and law enforcement recovery of stolen coins with known auction backgrounds. One of the more challenging tasks I've undertaken at NGC was proving that the 1854-S half eagle which surfaced a few years ago was not the stolen DuPont specimen. The auction catalog from its last public sale in 1962 was all but useless, but a slim prospectus for that sale which I'd purchased a few years earlier from the ANA's annual book sale in Colorado Springs provided sharper images that made our case. That 25-cent purchase paid for itself many times over...

The "Poor Man's Doubled-Die" was popular during the 1960s, when few persons understood how coins are made. It is not a doubled-die but rather just the result of die erosion/abrasion. Therefore, NGC will not label it as an error or variety.

you think maybe Kossoff and Kreisberg just sold someone else's hard-to-sell small denomination inventory alongside the few hundred (or fewer) Menjou gold coins ? The greater part of the 1950 "Menjou" sale was consigned by Cincinnati insurance executive Charles M. Williams, who didn't want his name used. The Menjou name was pasted onto several additional catalogs during the 1950s whenever a few of his coins were included.

Just a bit of trivia---very few of the coins in the so-called Menjou Sale actually belonged to Adolphe Menjou. Though the actor did have some coins, Abe Kosoff simply used his name with permission to promote the sale. Ol' Abe wasn't adverse to bending the truth a bit, but the same was true of most of his contemporaries.

Also just in case your are not aware, NGC does not accept PCI for crossovers you would have to crack out the coins and submit raw. PCI coins may be submitted to NGC in their holders, but the submitter has to sign a waiver allowing NGC to crack out them out regardless of how they will grade. This is likewise true for all brands of slabbed coins other than PCGS. That is the only brand for which NGC offers straight crossover service, meaning that NGC will not crack out a PCGS coin if it fails to meet NGC's criteria for the stated grade.

That is utter nonsense. The Roman alphabet did not have a letter U, so classical art frequently defaults to letter V in its place. It is seen on some coins and many medals, as well as non-numismatic art.

Your coin began as a normal Sac Dollar and was altered outside of the mint to sell as a novelty piece.

Both persons are ones I like and admire for the contributions they make to these boards. There will be the occasional clash of ideas, but this is a natural part of scholarly discourse. Recently, I went head to head (figuratively) with Eric Brothers over an article of his published in The Numismatist a couple months ago. My and his positions were published in a subsequent issue, permitting readers to decide for themselves. I've since heard from the scholars I admire the most that mine is the correct interpretation of facts, but I have no animosity toward Eric for stating and defending his position.