VKurtB

The technology to do it exists now. All that is lacking is the will to do it.

1) This OP's piece is not a coin. It is a token or medal.
2) This OP's piece is not gold.
3) This OP's piece is not worth a "valuable price".
In baseball, three strikes and you're out. Here too.

I recently looked at a copy of the Cherrypicker's Guide, and I now know why so many variety hunters have no idea what a proof coin looks like. It's because the illustration of the No-S 1990 proof in the Cherrypicker's Guide is so horrible. If I were going from that picture, I'd have no idea what a 1990 No-S proof looked like either. Go look at actual modern proofs coins first!

Just in case ol' Erik doesn't know, there are some minor DD's in 1969. Not all are the -001, which is hardly ever seen. And when it is seen, you really don't need magnification.

This we mostly all have done. Call it "tuition". Most of us have paid it. Luckily for me, that phase is quite a few years back.

This we mostly all have done. Call it "tuition". Most of us have paid it. Luckily for me, that phase is quite a few years back.

Save your money. Don't do it.

Aw c'mon! We all know Erik is an "ekspurt" in "verietys".

Oops, the Peruvian ended "104", not "014". Wrong scam, right scammer.

Silver dollar "chicken pox", I reckon. I prescribe bedrest and aspirin for discomfort. Drink lots of fluids to avoid dehydration.

Magnificent 
 

Keep in mind here that only "regular" proofs are typically Cameo or Ultra Cameo, Reverse Proofs are not assigned that designation.

Yesterday I was at my neighborhood "fancy shmancy" upscale urban grocery, and I was paying with Apple Pay from my checking account, when I noticed the aforementioned "give a penny, take a penny" bin on the counter. It was packed with what was probably the most gorgeous brand new cents I've ever seen! I'm going back today an paying cash and going to be a cent or two short and see what they are.

When they were sold by the mint, most every collector that wanted one bought one.  And a lot of them bought multiples so they could sell them to make the one they kept cheaper.  The problem is this means there are more coins than there are collectors interested in them.  In a situation like this prices fall.
With more coins available than collectors, dealers know they are going to have their money tied up for a long time, so their offering prices are going to be LOW.  Now no one has to sell, but after getting several offers, and possibly having held the coins for awhile hoping they would go up, the seller finally gives up and takes what he can get even though it means taking a loss.

I mean, really, the whole point of a proof is to be the ultimate quality version of the artist's work. To let a die set go so long that it starts to deteriorate on proofs is just sloppiness.

Yesterday I was at my neighborhood "fancy shmancy" upscale urban grocery, and I was paying with Apple Pay from my checking account, when I noticed the aforementioned "give a penny, take a penny" bin on the counter. It was packed with what was probably the most gorgeous brand new cents I've ever seen! I'm going back today an paying cash and going to be a cent or two short and see what they are.

Look like some die chips. Do you have any die salsa to go with it?

Yesterday I was at my neighborhood "fancy shmancy" upscale urban grocery, and I was paying with Apple Pay from my checking account, when I noticed the aforementioned "give a penny, take a penny" bin on the counter. It was packed with what was probably the most gorgeous brand new cents I've ever seen! I'm going back today an paying cash and going to be a cent or two short and see what they are.

Okay @Mokiechan,
What's the heck's with all the hostility from you? I'm a fellow individual member of PAN, as I believe you are, and I count among my dearest friends in the hobby both Tom Uram AND Patrick McBride, who are great "buds". You have an attitude problem a mile wide, though. What's up? Your Pennsylvania state taxes actually PAY ME to be a Research Analyst for the General Assembly, so yeah, I need to have a wide and varied expertise. Not any shlub gets hired to do what I do. I actually work for a Rep. I once ran AGAINST, who later hired me.

Think of George's nose as the coastline of his face, which is a continent. The background field is the ocean. What you see here is continental shelf, lower than the shoreline. That is MD or DDD. True die doubling creates more land, like that stuff that happened on the Big Island a while back. In truth, it extends as far up from the fields as the intended lettering or devices do. It needs to be a twin, not a lesser piece of metal.

Okay @Mokiechan,
What's the heck's with all the hostility from you? I'm a fellow individual member of PAN, as I believe you are, and I count among my dearest friends in the hobby both Tom Uram AND Patrick McBride, who are great "buds". You have an attitude problem a mile wide, though. What's up? Your Pennsylvania state taxes actually PAY ME to be a Research Analyst for the General Assembly, so yeah, I need to have a wide and varied expertise. Not any shlub gets hired to do what I do. I actually work for a Rep. I once ran AGAINST, who later hired me.

Things like those must be unevenly distributed. In central PA we get extremely few new current-year coins but we do get older really nice coins by the ton. No 2019 quarters, but ridiculously nice stuff from the 60's, 70's, and 80's all over here..

Trying to get an idea in advance on a "Details" graded coin will wreck your life. There is no guide.

You immediately eliminate all outbound shipping costs, before anything else. You also can "combine" forms for savings on inbound shipping, several types of forms, such as 1) Regular U.S., 2) Modern U.S., 3) Regular World, 4) Modern World, 5) Gold, etc. I always have more than one type of service, and that doesn't include specials, in price and/or service, that are frequently attached to shows.

What explains this "mania" for "sending coins in"???? I mean, sure, that's the business NGC is in and all, but I don't understand this "push" to send non-valuable coins in to anybody. It's not a "rite of passage" or anything. Getting coins graded and encapsulated is expensive! It's not appropriate for most coins, even most collectible coins. I accumulate my submissions to take them to NGC at shows, to keep the fixed costs per submission down as low as possible. Even so, it's still an expensive proposition.
 
I submitted 13 at Chicago ANA in August, I'll have a few for Baltimore Whitman in November, then Bloomsbury in London for stuff I get over there, then F.U.N., then Atlanta ANA in February. Typically my NGC invoice is more expensive than my plane tickets are. (Finding cheap flights is my savant skill, and Baltimore is a "driver".) [Example: Harrisburg to Orlando is $140 round trip.]