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The images for this variety at the VarietyVista website reveal only strike doubling. Perhaps there is some extremely minor die doubling amidst it, but that's not a variety NGC would recognize.

That's a planchet lamination error, and it's a pretty extreme one at that.

It's possible you're taking lack of high point detail for wear, but I believe it looked that way as made. The obverse die was quite worn.

Then I could afford to buy one!

Call me a contrarian, but I think it's legit but with a random hit to the date.

It appears to be genuine from the photos, but also AU rather than MS and lightly cleaned.

It was somewhere around 10,000 until I started divesting myself of the post-1980 pieces. I'll never write books about those, so I don't need to stockpile them.

Some years ago I was recruited to update the first edition of Coin Collecting for Dummies, when Ron Guth declined to do so. It seemed like an interesting challenge, but I found the publisher was so rigid in its requirements that writing to them made the whole project a miserable experience for me. I soon gave up on it, telling the publisher that it owed me nothing for my time. I'm glad Neil found the task more rewarding and completed the assignment.

I try to keep my folders free of nasty coins, which tend to wear them out...

Before someone asks, this means tapping the edge of a coin with a spoon to raise its rims higher. That's the first step toward converting a coin into a ring, though an Indian Cent is an odd candidate for fashioning a ring.

Drug dealers may be receiving coins stolen from collections to buy drugs...

I wrote an article about that incident many years ago and was unable to locate the coin. When a television show staged a dramatization of the story it used a nickel dated in the 1970s, as I recall.

I believe the term "broken bank" originated here.

I still prefer analog coin albums...

When a grande dame named Mrs. Norweb visited New Netherlands Coins in the 1950s, her fate was to sit upon the Milky Way bar that Walter Breen had carelessly left on a chair. So related John Jay Ford many years ago, though the story could have been apocryphal.

If it had happened about 20 years earlier they could have pinned it on Nero the watch dog knocking over a lantern, but I'm pretty sure he was in Doggie Heaven by then.

It's a little hard to tell from your photo, but if it looks like this one NGC will attribute it as NO FG under VarietyPlus Service:

I agree with Roger that these are not "federal" coins but rather "confederational" coins. They are nonetheless legal issues of the United States, though made by a commercial enterprise under contract to it, and I include an example in my ANA Summer Seminar class titled Collecting United States Type Coins. Their legal tender status is doubtful, since they are not denominated. It was the custom at that time for copper coins of similar size to pass at roughly halfpenny value, though their exact value as reckoned in pound currency varied from one state to the other until a federal coinage was established in 1792. They continued to circulate thereafter by custom alone for several decades until scooped up by collectors.

There is no technical reason that one of the V.D.B. reverse dies could not have been used accidentally in 1910, as undated dies typically are not discarded until they fail or become too worn. The 1909 situation, however, was unique in that the mint would have pulled any V.D.B. dies out of service to avoid such an accident. As Roger noted, the replacement dies not only lacked the initials but also were lower in relief. I believe that only the rims were reduced in relief and not the design elements. 1909 V.D.B. cents of both mints wear more slowly on their reverses than succeeding Lincoln Cents as a result of their high rims, which are quite obvious on unworn coins, and they have a very distinctive look even when worn. I don't see that look on the 1910 cent illustrated, so it's doubtful that it ever bore the initials. If it were submitted to NGC it would come across my desk, so I'll keep an open mind, but I would be very surprised if the initials could be confirmed.

These are not exactly fine art medals, but I designed them for my home coin club back in the day. Try to find my initials incorporated into the designs.

I believe that's what I wrote. Is there some misunderstanding? As for the 1964-D dollars, I believe that all were destroyed. Roger covered the coins' fate in his book on the series.

Calling this counterfeit is a bit misleading, as it was not made to deceive anyone. It is characteristic of a souvenir replica intended for educational or entertainment purposes. These were often given away as promotions or sold in gift shops at museums or historic sites.

The squat letters of the Small Motto are characteristic of Chief Engraver James B. Longacre's work, while the Large Motto font is typical of Assistant Engraver Anthony Paquet's coins and medals.

I don't believe that's an RPM. It appears to be strike doubling, aka mechanical or machine doubling.

The printed VAM book is out of date, but the website is kept current: vamworld.com