powermad5000

Thanks! I am not a gold collector and only have one gold coin in my collection. Apparently these pieces are very scarce.

This was a short story on the news tonight, but I missed the verbal part of the story. I think they said it was sold at Heritage Auctions. I don't know what this coin is and was unable to locate it in a search. Just wondering what it is. Sorry, the news didn't show a picture of the reverse so I can't help on that.

We would be right back to Capped Bust Half Dollar varieties then. And how they relate to Buffalo Nickels.

Mike, IF it were real, it would be a six figure coin. NGC would bump that up all the way to the Unlimited WalkThrough tier with a turnaround time of three days. That's an "old" thread by standards in this forum. It would not have taken this long.

A 1943 Steel Lincoln Wheat Cent with no mintmark (P) was struck at the Philadelphia Mint. Your coin seems to have original surfaces as its color is commensurate with a steel cent with light wear. I would say this would grade somewhere around AU53-AU55, and its value in the price guide currently in that condition is $0.70-$0.75. I would think if it were submitted however, (I am most certainly not suggesting this) that it would grade as AU details - Environmental Damage for the corrosion spot on the reverse. This details grade would bring the value of this coin down to probably about $0.25. I have seen many worse examples of this type coin and this one would be a good candidate for an album imho.

Your coin is a large date 1982 D Lincoln cent and the weight is appropriate for a bronze cent of issue with a mint weight of 3.11g +/- .13g of tolerance. The mint made 6,012,979,368 of these cents.

There is no way to know what the graders at the table actually took into account when they graded your coin. For the most part, the label in the slab states what they saw when they graded it. If there is some type of issue you find with your grade, you can inquire on the Ask/NGC forum and see if you can get a response about your particular situation. There is a rebuttal but not a traditional verbal rebuttal. You can resubmit the coin for a regrade, however, it will cost you more funds and typically does not change the initial results unless there was a mechanical error made by NGC during the labeling process (i.e. some information such as a variety that was paid for that is in Variety Plus, but is not reflected on the slabbed label). I have only resubmitted one coin out of my several hundred submissions with notes for the graders on why I thought it should have graded one level higher, but it returned regraded with the same grade as I got the first time. You are always free to post pictures of it here and let the members here have a look see and provide you with an opinion from the forum.

I agree this cent looks to have been plated. It is off-color, shiny on the obverse, and the reverse looks like the plating which damaged the original surface is suffering from some form of environmental damage. Did you weigh this cent to the hundredth decimal place? I would be curious to know what the weight is.

Totally awesome @J P M! Regardless if it changes in the future, you have evidence AND bragging rights that you have the #1 set!!!! Of any of the nickel guys I know, you deserve this honor!

I also see three large date 1982 D Lincoln cents. I also echo the response by @Coinbuf that it is your time spent if you wish to continue to search for the third "unicorn" cent. Just keep in mind there are tens or hundreds of thousands of other people who are also looking for the same thing, so do not be surprised if you never find it.

I have gotten many higher uncirculated moderns in my cash register change. My most surprising was my Roosevelt Dime that graded MS 67 FT PL. Most of the better cash register change in moderns however for me has been MS 66 tops and downwards from there. Sure it is possible to find an uncirculated modern in a roll, but what you need to keep in mind is that even a modern grading as MS 66 is really not even slab worthy. The plastic will still be worth more than the coin. I cherrypick my cash register change for examples that look great and at first quick glance have no observable defects to the naked eye. I place these in a special tube for later review. It takes me about 4 months for the tube to start to fill up where I will sit down and spend, oh, maybe about 5-10 minutes with a 10X and give em a good look over. Here is where the hook comes in, of that little tube, 99% of the coins have some minor nicks or scratches which would preclude even an MS 67 grade. While they may be considered uncirculated MS, they are not slab worthy so they get kicked back out into the wild. Let's review so this sinks in. - A lot of cash transactions resulting in a lot of loose change of all denominations. Over the course of a year, probably a couple thousand coins. - Coins worthy of further inspection number in the tens and only roughly 30 minutes per year is spent to review them. - 99% of them are not worthy of being slabbed. Some while nice and uncirculated, are not worth the cost of grading. - Final result, I may only get one a year that I take a chance on having it graded. A chance. Most come back as MS 66 and the plastic costs me more than the coin is valued at. Roll hunting may accelerate the numbers but I think in the end you would spend more time roll searching and end up at the same final result that I do. Keep in mind, the mintage numbers of moderns in the BILLIONS.

The physical deformities should tell you immediately that it is post mint damage. The amount of force used to strike a coin properly while it is in the collar properly will always produce a coin that is flat. If this coin were flat with those type of defects, you would then have cause to take a closer look to see if it is damage or a strike through.

For the same reasons as stated by Mike, I would have to say the OP's coin would grade AU 53 but I don't think it would get higher than that. I do not have the coin in hand however so that is just an opinion. To the OP, this is a tricky series to grade. Not all of these nickels were fully struck, or struck well and that is taken into account at the grading table. Sometimes it can be difficult to discern between wear and a poorly struck specimen. That said, however, strike is one of the top things a professional grader is going to look at. A coin with zero scratches, marks, or hits with a fantastic surface might only grade as low MS if it is poorly struck. And a well struck coin with minimal wear in AU grades can be mistaken as an MS which is also known in the coin community as an AU slider. In this series, added twists to grading them also exist by year, and by mint so this is really a difficult series to try to self grade. You would have to put in a lot of work and research in order to self grade this series well and why I state my self grade of this by a photo is merely an opinion.

It is excellent that you are handling the coin by its edges. However, I really cannot even entertain you with an opinion of grade or value from the photos provided. They are too far away for me to see what I need to see. It might be helpful for you to put the coin on a table and then take the pics, make sure they are clear, and then fully crop them before posting them. P.S. I should not know that you had to take your shoes off.

There it is @Henri Charriere. When words fall on deaf ears, that is why certain responses are elicited from some members, myself included. Being this is the second time I recall on these posts being made upon which opinions stated are not entertained, and this time blatantly called out as being wrong, I will however, HC, use from this point your other mechanism. Consider it done.

Once again, the OP needs to submit these coins to NGC asap and come back to this thread and post photos of the returned coins in the slabs.

I am very confused about this entire thread. It is on the copper side of the silver on the back behind feathers of wheat.

I do not see anything different from a normal 2003 D Arkansas Statehood Quarter. I shall provide you with the obligatory warning I have had to issue to a handful of others who bought a scope and went crazy with the thing. It is best to put the scope down. While it may be handy for assessing minor varieties in question, it should not be used in any other instance. TPG's don't use it. Most serious collectors don't use it (once again unless it is to try to determine a minor variety). A scope can turn the tiniest die chip into a mountain, or the tiniest scratch into the Grand Canyon. Compare your quarter to one of the same year and mintmark. I am sure there is no difference.

While I am into paper money as well and have a minor collection of some of it, even I realize this is not the forum to ask questions about it. Coins - yes. Paper - no. I believe there is a separate forum for questions regarding paper currency.

Is the concern whether or not there is a space between Red and book as in Red book VS Redbook? I will admit, this is minutia that my brain has not bothered with, but I just had to get up and go downstairs and look on mine. There is a space between Red and Book. Which means Redbook is a non numismatic magazine. Thanks @Henri Charriere for the additional staircase exercise today!

No cigar. Finding a third one of these is like playing the Powerball and winning. But, you gotta play to win right? There is so many people laser focused on finding a third one of these that I have to believe it does not exist. Literally hundreds of posts on here in the last few years alone with people claiming they have found a third. Answering questions about large date/small date 1982 D Lincoln cents has got to be the #1 topic in this forum. Don't feel bad thpugh. I will admit I even check the weights on my 1982 D small dates, but I honestly don't expect to find anything out of the norm.

You may maintain this ideology if you wish. I find grading quite interesting. It is in fact very difficult and two different sets of eyes looking at the same coin typically will result in two different grades as everyone's eye sees something a little different. And most people struggle with grading. I find it interesting on how in MS the number of factors to look at actually increases as greater scrutiny is involved as MS coins by their definition have no observable wear with 10 points of the Sheldon scale now in play. If you really want to twist your brain, throw in + grades and * grades in the mix. I still have not figured out where the thin line comes into play regarding those and when they are awarded to a coin.

There is an XRF test but it typically only reads the surface metal and not the core. There is also a specific gravity test, something I have never had to perform on a coin but is also another test besides weight. Also, you would have to crack the cent out of the holder for these tests to be performed. Seeing as you are dead set this is a transitional cent, then I would crack it out and have whatever tests performed until you finally accept what answers are given. I would then also have it reweighed by a certified jewelers scale that is not yours and is known to be calibrated correctly. While you seem to be dismissing weight altogether, I will say its weight is the main indication that this is NOT a bronze transitional cent which, once again, would weigh between 3.05g-3.08g. This given weight of the bronze transitional cent is not open to "almost close" or "in the area of".

To add a little levity to the discussion currently underway, I did note in the Mint list provided by @RWB that butts were to be delivered.

I am not seeing this effect of a dime somehow struck onto the obverse and reverse of this enlarged cent. What you are trying to describe is a struck Lincoln cent was also somehow struck with a set of clashed dime dies? Even if that were true by a mint employee's tomfoolery, the end result would still not appear as your cent does. The rim on your cent looks the way it does because of whatever force was used which caused the cent to expand in size drove the edges of the rim out over what was the original rim struck in the collar.