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That's Britannia to you, mister! I believe that device was used also for the UK's early 1960s decimal coinage trials.

You can see a similar coin in an NGC slide show. Go to the slide labeled When Doubled Dies are not Doubled Dies: https://www.ngccoin.com/pdf/US_Coin_Die_Varieties.pdf

That appears to be the result of circulation damage compressing the edge in places.

NGC does not offer attribution by variety numbers for pre-federal American coins. These are labeled by Red Book descriptions only. You may occasionally find NGC-certified coins with the specific varieties, but these were done solely for certain collections, such as those of Eric P. Newman and Donald Partrick.

That's an extreme example of strike doubling, aka machine or mechanical doubling. This is very common on the obverses of Mercury Dimes. For that coin type the obverse die was in the lower, or "anvil" position, and it led to frequent shearing action during the striking of the coin and withdrawal of the dies afterward.

As long as we're on the subject of flips, I'd like to add one more point. While NGC will accept both the 2"x2" and 2.5"x2.5" flips, it's preferred that you use the larger ones for coins of silver dollar size and larger. With the smaller flips it's very hard to remove large coins without using thumb and forefinger on the coins' obverse and reverse. They're just too tight to slide out by gravity alone.

I imagine there will be detailed coverage in Coin World fairly soon, so I won't go into specifics, but I can't overlook the passing of Keith Zaner Tuesday morning. For many years Coin World's Trends editor, Keith later performed a similar function at NGC for four years until his retirement in 2017. Keith was always congenial and professional. He was also a dear friend I'd known for 40 years, and I'll certainly miss him.

Around 2000-2001 NGC began grading modern (1930s and later) USA coins with the designations T for Toned and W for White (entirely untoned). This was in response to market trends at the time, but the program lasted just a few months, as I recall. If this coin were submitted for regrade or even a simple reholder the T would disappear, as it has already in the Census.

https://apnews.com/article/bills-f40facf41ee2378e2582d2d3bc0b1180 The information in that book was already becoming obsolete when it was borrowed from the library 50 years ago. When I was a kid the only coin books to be found at my local public library were a 10-year-old Red Book and such mass-market products as the one cited above. These invariably were authored by the likes of Burton Hobson, Fred Reinfeld and similar writers-for-hire, but at least they seemed to validate my choice of hobby.

Nearly 70 years later such foolishness was still being practiced. Check out the last line of text on this First Edition Whitman coin board for Lincoln Cents.

Would NGC refuse a submission if I sent my coins in lighthouse cardboard holders like these? https://www.lighthouse.us/coin-holders-self-adhesive.html Do not use those holders. It would be difficult to open them without some risk of damaging the coins in the process. I don't know whether they would be refused, but it would almost certainly result in some delay in processing your submission.

It appears to be just a stained dime of ordinary manufacture.

While Saflips are chemically inert, they are structurally weak, and NGC prefers they not be used. In addition to the front and back pockets sometimes separating with handling, the sharp corners are unpleasant to handle in quantity. We certainly won't refuse submissions sent in those flips, but the softer ones are preferred. For the amount of time your coins will be in the soft flips there's no risk of contamination, unless the flips are already quite old.

From the few photos posted it appears to be FS-103, rather than 102.

They are scheduled to be included with the earlier issues of those coin types. In other words, the Morgan Dollar census will read 1921-S followed by the 2021 dollars.

That's not an NGC holder, and the coin looks fake.

I remember these promotions as a kid, since my father always bought Fords and always filled them with Shell gasoline. The medals were received with any purchase meeting a certain minimum, and they were enclosed in flexible, white plastic envelopes that looked very much like condom wrappers. Each series had one entry that was nearly impossible to find, and only by having them all would players win the grand prize. The best remembered series was the one for U. S. presidents, which ran around 1968. The key to that game was Warren G. Harding, and I never saw that one in aluminum. Lesser winners would receive a complete set of the medals coined in brass and mounted within a decorative cardboard holder. A fellow collector's father ponied up to simply buy the complete set in brass, and I was quite envious at the time.

While the Henning counterfeits are fun to collect (I have two of them), they will not be graded by NGC. Your coin would be returned unencapsulated as "NOT GENUINE."

NGC will not label your coin as being from "proof dies."

Volume IV of Bill Bugert's mammoth series of books illustrating all of the dies used for Seated Liberty half dollars breaks down the 1861-O die marriages by USA issues, State of Louisiana issues and CSA issues. Bill has very generously published this work online for free at the Liberty Seated Collectors Club website: http://www.lsccweb.org/BillBugertBooks/BillBugertBooks.php

There's an old but informative video produced by INCO (International Nickel Company) about the mining and processing of nickel in Canada and the USA. It doesn't touch on coin manufacture, but there's a lot to be learned about this metal that so vexed the mints when it was first used:

It's an ordinary MS 1921 Peace Dollar. Though well struck for this issue, its strike falls far short of that on a proof.

DED is not as catchy as DDD. Proper acronyms are very important in numismatics. It seems that in recent years everyone who writes a book or creates a website about varieties has to revise the familiar terminology to secure their own place in history. I (and by default, NGC) still use the terms that were in regular use for decades until this practice began. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

Agreed. I use the term die erosion doubling, but it means the same thing.

If you believe you have a 1944 steel cent, it may be submitted to NGC for grading, but it will also require Mint Error service. Make certain the you first text it with a magnet, as a bronze cent that's been plated will not be attracted.