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No such variety is known. Can you post a sharp photo?

Yes, but I didn't mention it, because the OP didn't have any pennies that old. The 1860-1901 album is quite scarce and in high demand, as there was just a single printing in 1965. A clean copy will bring $100+ on eBay.

I grew up just a few miles from the SFM and went frequently to the Old SF Mint Museum, the neo-classical building shown in the video. It was open to the public from 1973 to 1994, and I used to cherrypick my proof sets and other coins each year from its gift shop. I later researched my earliest books there in its magnificent library. As noted in the video, the current SFM is not open to the public, but I had a coin club friend who worked there as senior die setter. I was able to attend several first strike ceremonies, most memorably that for the proof silver eagles in 1986. I still have the press kit that was distributed as a souvenir, but sadly I did not get to strike and purchase my own coin; I was too low on the totem pole at that time. When my friend retired the following year, he took me and my father on a private tour of the entire facility. At that time the unsold 1982-S Washington Half Dollars were being destroyed, but they first had to be removed from their plastic capsules. This was achieved by running the encapsulated coins through an upsetting mill, which is normally used to give the blanks a raised rim. This shattered the plastic and sent it flying in all directions, so protective clothing and eyewear was required. I was astonished at the sight of a tote bin filled with liberated but highly scuffed proof coins and another right next to it filled with plastic shards.

UPDATE: I spoke with NGC's mint error attributor, and he says that we now do BIE and similar breaks under Mint Error service (not VarietyPlus). We won't use the term BIE but will label them as Minor Die Break.

The USA/Philippine coins straddle both US and World. If you're sending in other world coins you may include these, too. If you're sending in other USA coins, you can include these, too.

That is simply an entry error. In all likelihood your coin does not appear among the 1936 Oregon coins in NGC's census. Instead, it's lumped in with the 1936 Walking Liberty halves. You can get this fixed by NGC at no charge by submitting it as "mechanical error."

Whenever the coin merits it these strike characters will be applied to ones that are numerically graded. The coin doesn't have to be fully MS, though ones grading less than AU are unlikely to still show the requisite feature.

First, a correction---these are not cents---they are pennies. There are no current manufacturers of folders or albums for British pre-decimal bronze coins. Whitman folders printed during the 1960s-70s are not hard to find on eBay, and they don't cost much, perhaps $5-10 each. Whitman's slide-type Bookshelf albums are more scarce and expensive. These date from the same period. You would need two such albums, 1902-36 and 1937-. The example linked above is higher priced than ones sold in the USA. You should be able to pick these up in decent condition for around $25-35 each.

I am NGC's attributor of USA coin varieties, and I see no doubling on that 1976 cent. By going to NGC's VarietyPlus website you will see a complete listing of the varieties attributed by NGC. Each denotes whether a fee is required for attribution. As a general rule, the major varieties illustrated in the Red Book are attributed automatically by the graders. These includes coins such as the 1955 and 1972 DDO cents, the 1918/7-D and 1937-D 3-legged nickels, the 1942/41 and 1942/41-D dimes, etc. The vast majority of listings at the VP website do require the $15 fee, because of the extra time and expertise needed to identify these varieties. The graders will not be looking for these at all, so they must be routed to the attributor by selecting VP service. The same concept applies to mint errors, which also require a $15 attribution fee. The graders don't "miss" these fee varieties and errors; it is simply not their job to look for them.

There's no mystery. It's a normal 1964 quarter.

BIE breaks are too common on cents from the 1950s to be noted by NGC. They're fun but add very little value.

It appears to have strike doubling on much of the reverse, creating the illusion of a duplicated Large 5C.

Your coin displays strike doubling, aka machine doubling, shelf doubling and so on. This occurs individually at the moment of striking and die withdrawal, so it's not a feature of the die. Strike doubling is pretty common, and it's not considered a collectable variety.

That's a contemporaneous counterfeit, meaning that it was made of base metal while coins of that type were still circulating, and it was intended to pass at face value. There are hundreds of varieties of these, including ones having too late a date for the lettered edge type, as with your coin. These are very popular to collect, and there's even a book by Keith Davignon that lists and illustrates the known varieties.

Just a minor correction---these are nickels. The second does have about 30 degrees rotation from normal. While interesting and fun, I don't believe it adds much value, especially with a well worn coin.

I got to see a preview of this book awhile back, and I've just ordered my copy.

It's not an alteration from 1948. It's an outright counterfeit of a 1943.

I would not call that dime cleaned. It has a few very fine scrapes running parallel, but the underlying surfaces look original.

I can't see the coin well enough to comment, but here's a sobering statistic: Over 50% of the coins I examine at NGC for DDO or DDR turn out to either have strike doubling only or no doubling of any kind.

You have what used to be called the "Poor Man's Doubled Die." It shows only die erosion doubling that resulted in the extremities being drawn outward. A popular novelty in the 1960s--70s, growing knowledge of how dies routinely wear rendered it pretty much valueless as a variety.

From the outset my work on this project was a gift to the ANA. I never sought nor expected any compensation. Needless to say, it's become my best selling book! I don't anticipate a second edition. The "Bowers" series of Red Book volumes have become Whitman's brand for all or most of its books in recent years.

As a sidebar story, my book History of the U. S. Mint and Its Coinage was commissioned of me in the mid 1990s to be an ANA correspondence course. When Education Director James Taylor resigned after being passed over for Executive Director, the whole project was buried for several years. Gail Baker eventually replaced him, found my manuscript and asked if I could update and expand it into a book for publication. This was done, and it was about to be published by the ANA when the then-Executive Director Christopher Cipoletti fired nearly everyone involved. He then handed the fully laid-out book over to Whitman for publication. The final product had long since lost its extensive citations, quoted documents, etc. to simplify it for a general readership. The whole project ended up lasting through ten years of many highs and lows.

The use of gold coins as a general circulating currency ended after 1861 in most of the nation. It continued in the West as late as 1917, until the Treasury's restrictions on its distribution forced even westerners to accept paper money. As other Americans had discovered decades earlier, paper is a lot easier to carry around than gold. After about 1920 gold coins could be obtained upon request, but individuals and most businesses wanted little to do with them, except as special gifts at births, graduations, Christmas/Hanukah, etc. By the late 1920s they became more difficult to obtain at face value, as they were already bringing over that for the export market.

I don't see anything that would qualify it as a DDO or DDR.

The photo isn't very clear, but it's certainly not the rare FS-101 variety, as that is a currency strike rather than a proof.