RWB

Unless there is a reason to buy one of these "hoard" coins at an inflated price, your better value is to buy the same or better at a normal price. I hope Mr. Garrett releases enough information that statistical analysis can be run on the coins and the geographic location. This can be correlated with other numismatic finds. Results might help us better understand the flow of specie at that time.

That's a really nice 1916-D obv in true EF ! Excellent coin to have and enjoy owning.

Subtract $35 to $50 from the asking price, and you'll have something closer to a realistic price for most Lincolns and Buffaloes. The TPGs have been successful in frightening collectors into accepting their certification charges as a baseline coin price. Learn to accurately grade coins and buy nice slabbed coins.

First Day Covers are popular with philatelists, and first day postmarked stamps on $2 bills were a fun fad for a while. Hut River plc made a lot of coin/stamp first-day-first-issue postmarked covers that show up in older collections today. The "first" of anything is often prized, although "first day of issue" - which could be millions of stamps or coins - gets a little "weak" for many.

Good purchase. I hope it's not broken up and sold on cable TV.

Imagine you could search these at your leisure....

Not at all. I'd like to be reasonably accurate and honest about the condition of your coin, but the photos don't permit that and I stated why that was so. If you post clear, sharp photos, free of compression artifacts, then I - and likely others - will venture a guess. Remember --- "Don't count you chickens before they lay an egg."

Too much image compression noise to see the coin's surface -- in addition to the poor focus.

You need not answer similar questions multiple times -- save an electron. Your description indicates it's an ordinary cash (or "bank") roll of halves and could be a mix of designs dates and mintmarks. Casinos were tough on coins so they are probably not in Uncirculated condition. Probably no advantage to having an experienced coin collector open the roll. If it is opened, please post some photos and members will tell you more about the coins and their value.

There are a lot of these and full bags of $2,000 out there. More will turn up as original collectors die off. If you show the ends, we might be able to determine if it was previously opened. The dark areas resemble tape residue, which suggests the roll is not original direct from a new bag.

This is a typed copy, so it would not have been put on letterhead. I've seen engraved letterhead as early as about 1793 -- maybe earlier. R.W. Julian would know better than I.

The stain (or contamination) is at about 10 o'clock when the reverse is correctly rotated. Was it there when you bought the coin? Was it present before you sent the coin off for "grading?"

Thought members might find this interesting.

If the dime were the smallest coin denomination, the maximum rounding error (over time) would be 4-cents for cash, and 0 for non-cash.

Handling damage is commonly a scrape, not the impact damage asked about. The available force relates to that occurring between two or more coins, and because the coins are already in contact inside a sewn or crimped bag, there is little of the edge-to-face contact necessary to produce sharp reed impressions. This is another misunderstanding where we once merely assumed details about the coining and coin handling process rather than critically examining the actual process. "Believe" whatever you want, but please don't pass it off as fact.

The "divots" are from a coin's reeding pushing the other coin metal aside. A silver dollars is small, but with all the force concentrated on the tiny area were rim and reeds meet, there is considerable pressure. As the receiving bin fills, the falling distance decreases and so does the force, which then causes less damage to the coin that is hit. As noted, this does NOT happen within a bag.

It would have no effect on state sales taxes. Rounding up/down produces a net gain or loss of no more than 3-cents per year for anyone or any state -- it all averages out on cash transactions. And there would be no rounding on non-cash transactions. [Think it through.... there are 3 options in rounding, 1 up, 2 down, 3 no change. #3 has no effect so we eliminate it. #1 and #2 are like heads or tails on a coin flip: 10,000 flips will produce 5,000 heads and 5,000 tails.]

Agree with Sandon, however the damage is caused by impact when one coin falls from the press into the receiving bin and strikes a coin already there. The fall into a nearly empty bin could be 2 feet or more. (Combines weight and friction inside a bag is not sufficient to do more than make scratches)

It would save a lot of money that is now wasted. Do the same with the nickel and require down/up rounding on all cash sales. (Keep non-cash sales to the exact cent.)

Provenance is mentioned in the second line.

Don't know.

So now both NGC and PCGS belong to the blood suckers...?

To identify originals and restrikes, we first need clear die differences so that others can examine their coins. Once that has had time to identify 2 or more dies, and we have rough proportions, we can then look for coins whose provenance goes back to the World's Fair or anytime between 1893 and 1896. With multiple pieces identified, we then determine if there were 1 or 2 dies in use. Given the small mintage, this activity should resolve itself in a few weeks or months. Then, any coin from a different die pair should be a restrike. The TPG's should sponsor this examination since they are the ones who will profit from increased re-grading and attribution fees. [I can do this from coins and auction records, but I would charge a TPG for my time. it's much better for collectors to do this.]

You must have got hold of the Wagnerian "Big Bertha" version.

Here are the OP's scans after tightening and the limited enhancement allowed by excess compression artifacts. Reading from top left: 1921-S; 1921-D 1878-P; 1900-O 1878-CC Conditions range from G to VF. Little or no collector premium on any of the coins.