RWB

No. The plating is very easy to spot. Go to any major coin auction site and compare images of a normal 1943 cent and the ones you posted. The differences are obvious. Your three coins are worth 3-cents.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I neither buy nor sell coins. Everything I write and publish is based on the best available information obtained from primary sources, and without commercial bias.

Worth grading? No. Damaged and of little collector value.

Certainly worth mentioning.

Very nice St. Petersburg Mint coin with Pavel Alekseev as moneyer.

Nearly all US Mint letters deal with business and it is very rare to find personal details. Where they appear, these largely deal with a sick relative or visits to distant family members. This little excerpt written by Director Linderman in 1867 is notable in describing an injury and its cause. April 16, 1867 Dear Sir: Your favor of yesterday finds me confined to my room from a severe sprain of the right knee and leg, received in leaping from a wagon to escape a threatened accident at a Rail Road Station. I hope to be able to go to the Mint in a day or two….

The US Mints do the same thing. Trying to protect details of coining process and equipment. Treasury-approved photos are reviewed by department heads as "security" flaws, not as "numismatic" interest.

Just like the fleecing people take from TV coin sales, US Mint mark-ups on ugly commems and bullion NCLT. It's part of a class of behavior dependent on creating a false sense of "value" to make money from ignorance and "blindly-acting" followers. If the moderators feel that ANY thread title or content is objectionable, they can - should - remove it.

Nope, you'd doing fine. "Slick" has decamped to PCGS where there are more people to ridicule his posts.

Ordinary coin with damage/corrosion aided by lots of imagination. (Please don't scratch too much - you could damage your scalp.)

A "ridge ring" is silent.

NGC will put a "wrapper" around the GSA holder to show authenticity and grade. Collectors have an increasing interest in coins in the original holders, as Coinbuf mentioned.

A little hard to judge due to the reflections -- possibly MS-64 or 65. I note only two significant marks at Liberty's nose. Here's a "MS-66" that appears to have more marks. This grade was selling for about $2,200 earlier this year.

GSA = General Services Adminstration. Search on "GSA hoard" and "GSA Carson City" for information. It should be similar on most sites. Look on the NGC and other price guides for approximate retail values.

Scarce date but too badly worn to be worth much of a premium. Agree with "Fair" as a grade. Here's a Fair-2 that brought $129 about 7 years ago; ebay offers show more like $25.

Slight differences in centering. If you measure only the portraits you'll find the dimensions are identical.

The Mint Marketing div. feels that they can turn greater profit by partnering with an established, broader-based coin seller and auctioneer. It gives them a wider venue and yet keeps the Mint within Congressional rules on advertising. But---this is just hearsay.....

For the VIP "tour" visitors are stripped naked and given a pair of booties to wear. All personal items are left with their clothes in a small bag that is locked in a vault until the tour is over. Before going through the facility, everyone also has a body opening search, a magnetometer scan and and X-ray scan. If any dental gold is present, your mouth is wired shut for the tour duration. Even the Queen had to endure this -- and she wanted to bring in her pet legless dog-worm things, too. All this is quite similar to the new voting laws proposed in Alabama -- except the Queen can't vote there.

...but this has no tune or rhythm.

The markup over spot might be similar, but the total cost is much greater at present due to the absurdly speculative price of gold. PS: When discussing gold from the early 20th century, it's best to refer to design type - your previous post seems to lump Liberty and Saint-Gaudens/Pratt types together.

This might be of interest to some. https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/breaking-news-mint-contracts-with-stack-s-bowers-for-auction

Yep. It was taken by Treasury to help promote collecting commemorative halves and medals. She's looking at a quarter. She had some early US coins, but they were not something average people could relate to. (I used the same photo in one of my books, along with one of Dir Ross admiring tomatoes grown on her Eastern Shore, Maryland, farm.) The Eastern Shore is also where Sinnock went to get help with his FDR dime design. Wilkins went with him and wrote one of the better first-hand accounts of collaboration between artists. (Included in the chapter on the FDR Dime in my new book Saudi Gold.)

Don't know about your coin. 1650 is not "medieval" (abut 5th to 15th centuries)

Go to any large coin auctions company and find a photo of a genuine 1890-CC double eagle. Compare with this "coin."