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Not MD or strike doubling. It's die erosion.

Your photo isn't sharp enough to read the numerals, but it probably reads 1987. Look for a letter L tucked in between M and X: https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-explorer/american-eagle-bullion-coins-gold-pscid-95/1987-eagle-g5-ms-coinid-710202

Your coin took a hit in circulation, and it pushed the metal into that angle. It wasn't made that way.

I won't speculate as to the reason for a numeral being punched so far out of place, but it is a very real phenomenon that didn't end until the dates were applied to the master die starting 1909. NGC does attribute the variety in question: https://www.ngccoin.com/variety-plus/united-states/cents/indian-cents-1859-1909/815485/

That's pretty good. It's nice to see that you sometimes find fun here, too.

Just for the record, and before anyone asks, NGC does not recognize minor die chips like that, though submitters send us plenty of 'em. BIEs were hugely popular in the 1960s. There were books cataloging them, and there was even a club for enthusiasts. Just like so many minor coin oddities that resulted from the U. S. Mint's abysmal quality control during the 1940s-60s, these faded from popularity when accurate reference books on mint errors and varieties superseded the flood of wishful thinking guides that surrounded me as a kid in the '60s.

That's a really cool alteration and very collectible, but NGC would reject it as an altered coin. Ditto for PCGS, and you'd have to check with the others.

Don't forget that only those coins achieving a numeric grade get into the Census. Older coins, Barber Dimes being a good example, more often than not have been cleaned at some point or have other problems which relegate them to "Details" grading. Some of the varieties not found in the Census may have been attributed by NGC but simply don't appear in the Census.

Everybody take a deep breath... Of the coins illustrated in this thread, the only one that appears to be a real variety is the 1958-D cent. It is a very minor RPM, one that oddly does not appear at the VarietyVista website: http://www.varietyvista.com/02a LC RPMs Vol 1/RPMs 1958D.htm Though slightly interesting, it is too minor for NGC to attribute.

It appears to be this one, which NGC will attribute under VarietyPlus service: http://www.varietyvista.com/09b WQ Vol 2/DDR Detail Pages/1970SDDR001.htm

If it's raised on the coin then it could be a dropped T from the word TRUST. What that means is that metal lodged within the die cavity for letter T, probably from the brass plating of the planchet, became dislodged and fell onto the lower die. It then got compressed between the reverse die and the planchet of a subsequent coin. This is just theoretical, and it would have to be submitted for Mint Error service to confirm it.

NGC began taking photos of all certified coins around 2008.

That is most likely play money for kids or educational money for business students. It appears to be brass and probably is contemporary with Barber coins.

That's an alteration made outside the mint for reasons unknown.

Especially since the last business strike was minted in 1964. Actually silver dimes were coined into early 1966, simultaneously with the clad ones. https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/7845/USA-Coin-Album/

That's a brass game counter. These were used for gambling in place of actual coins. It's hard to tell its size from the photos, but it's likely the diameter of an eagle or half eagle. The Dancing Bears type is among the more popular ones. These tokens were cataloged by in a series of books by Benj Fauver during the 1970s, but they've been out of print for many years.

NGC does not apply 5FS and 6FS to proofs and SMS coins, as these typically are of superior sharpness.

In the 1880s Americans were too busy slaughtering bison to commemorate them. That would have to come later.

That was no hardship, as these coins typically were made toward the end of the year for holiday season gifts. It's likely that only proofs would have been made earlier in the year.

It wasn't the cyanide that killed Saltus; it was the little umbrella in his drink.

Dateless coins won't be certified at all, and the diagnostics illustrated are not relevant to that situation.

These numbers refer to the color photos found in Rick Tomaska's book on Cameo Proofs of the 1950-70 period. They reveal differing degrees of frostiness on the coins illustrated.

Yes, gas gets trapped between the zinc base and brass plating and is then compressed by striking into a bubble pattern.

NGC will not certify any dateless Buffalo Nickels, nor will it certify ones with dates restored by acid.

For its first 30 years NGC abbreviated silver dollar as S$1. Because some customers confused the S with an S mintmark, we recently dropped it. Coins certified during the past several months lack the S for Silver. It has been retained solely for commemoratives and ASEs.