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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.]

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.

Oh for crying out loud! These kinds of threads are getting really boring. Ratzie, if you want to see an easy to find "satin finish" on a Kennedy half, check out Uncirculated Set examples from 2005-2010.

In 1909, cents were beautifully struck. They were a new thing, showing a real person for the first time. I sincerely hope you're not suggesting you are looking at a Matte Proof 1909-VDB, because you definitely are not! Look at the raised rim of your coin. It has a rounded top. Matte proof Lincolns have squared off rim tops. Yours is not one. But if you need to have that proven to you, get in touch with Carl Waltz of Millersville, PA. He literally wrote the book on Matte Proof Lincolns, and has documented them by die state. Carl works through Angel Dee's to build his MPL collection. And no, he doesn't deal over the Internet and he doesn't participate on online forums, this or any other one. However, I will be seeing Carl in about 2 hours at the Red Rose Coin Club meeting in Lancaster, PA.
 
Is there no length to which you will not go to convince yourself you've found great rarities?!?! Get a grip, man!

For circulated SBA's, you need to start by looking for 1979-P examples on which the date sits nearly on the segmented inner edge, like the 1980 dates are. They are only on the Philly variety, not the Denver or San Francisco. They are called either "Wide Rim" or "Near Date" 1979-P. They bring a nice premium.

I think one of the things that is actually hurting us as a society is too much concern for "softening blows". We used to not be such hand-wringers about that. I miss those days, a lot!  I guess those of us who grew up with Civil Defense drills, where we literally knew where we'd go if nuclear weapons started dropping while we were at school, just grew up tougher. We didn't need trigger warnings or safe spaces. There were no safe spaces and we were okay with that. I was in 2nd grade during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and somehow we didn't need "Happy Talk Counseling".

Plating blister and nothing more.

Please folks, let's just stop it with the scopes; I implore you. That's not how this hobby is done. 5x magnification is all you need.

Now if we could both just reach hundreds or thousands of people who are having coins graded that should not be...

I didn't at first either. I waited until I did understand it before sending any coins in.

While it does have spots, I'm not seeing a lot of dings. It could make 64.

Not that you explicitly asked, but it is a Large Date.

Not as common in recent years as it was early in the series.

Seems like if you can afford a million dollars in silver, you can afford ten acres out in the boonies--out of an urban area or military base's likely demolition radius, and outside rationally imaginable flood and seismic activity situations--where you could bury a bunch of it in sealed containers under a boulder. Set up a big tent like you are camping, but cut most of the floor away so none of the local Woolly Swamp brigade can see you digging away. Then dig another hole nearby, worse concealed, containing about eight silver-plated iron bars (if you have a million bucks in silver, you can afford this too), well wrapped. That way, if Team Cletus spies on you and later comes back to take ol' Lucius's money, fair chance they pick the wrong spot and dig up the plated iron.

If you can get hold of a bunch of craptacular cast counterfeit Chinese coins to include, even better. Or a bunch of fake Continental Dollars and 1804 silver dollars (you could buy them on here once a week each or so, perhaps).

Come on now, Bob, you know there are just random digits flying around the mint production rooms, don't you? 

So it then appears that paranoia really DOES carry a fiscal price after all.
Can you hear MY EYES ROLLING from wherever you are? If you are very still, I bet you can.

Wizard is a great company, they donated 120 one-a-year 1909-2009 Lincoln Folders to the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatics for their KidZone at cost.  Saving us well over $200.  I personally buy quite a few supplies from them.