KarenHolcomb

It's very nice. 

I agree. Those proofs will sometimes get milky looking, but this one looks really nice.

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value? who knows....depends on how many turn up i guess.
 
there are alot of people looking for them but not many are found.
 
i found this and a 1998 WAM and a 1999 WAM all in the same box.
 
i have since searched 80 boxes and have not found another 88/89

You know what WJ? I used a pc of tape and I suppose the 7's are just the teensiest bit lower than the other 3 digits, although VERY close, but a cent coin isn't gigantic so a teensy bit can be substantial. I appreciate your reference to the 1919 Dime. Casman also referenced it a while back and today you have reinvigorated my search for the unknown error as he did then. You see, while I've only been looking at coins for a few months, I have yet to come across a single error. Not one. Even when I thought I had they turned out to be different varieties. While everyone around me is posting, posting, posting all their wonderful coins,  I have squat. But Cas also said that I have an great eye, so between the 2 of you you've convinced me to stick around for a bit longer. So I shall continue to ruin my sight and read, read, read and study some more and my first valuable coin is gonna be a doozy.

You are incorrect about the $600 grading fee...that fee is charged for known ultra rarities which you do not know you have yet, in fact can never be, because I do not think it is in the same circle as say a 1913 Liberty nickel or even a 1804 silver dollar.
 
I say just for the record, that I think most of this story is BS, unless you have definite proof, but til then I remain skeptical.
 
Stranger things have happened, but when they do, the people claiming offer proof, I have seen none.
 
I do not like my leg pulled

,,,but there are some 'experts' here....you need to listen and learn and it will save you those grading fees that don't work out so well.
With good images, 1970-D small dates are pretty easy to ascertain when you know the PUP (Pick Up Points)

If you 'think' you have a small date Denver minted coin, it would be easy to determine, after all, how do you think the 70 Philly & Frisco small dates were found? But, and that's a big but, after 48 years I'm certain they would have been found already, but stranger things have happened like the 1919 doubled die dime that was just recently discovered.

That's a beauty Joe!!


 

I'm out of the loop on this one. What is a "pac-man" error?

A die marriage registry, I believe, would mean a listing of known obverse and reverse dies, and which were ever used together. With older US coins, for example, the number of dies can be quite finite. I have a 1794 cent that is from an obverse die that developed a crack diagonally through the 4 in the date. Through such tiny cues, we can decide exactly which obverse die that is, and then which reverse dies were used with it (and of course, from that, the die state...for example, my cent is a medium die state; if the crack were longer, I think that means late die state). I would assume that the number is an identifier of one particular die marriage.
If UVC is universal variety code, that would probably mean a unique numeric identifier of a catalogued variety. Some glorious, devoted enthusiasts probably set out to compile a definitive catalogue of varieties, and this is the designator for this particular variation.

It would be the eighth different reverse doubled die discovered for that year.

DDR-008 = 8th doubled die reverse reported/cataloged
8-R-II-C+VI = 8th doubled die, it is on the rev, and the II and or the VI refer to which class of Doubled die it is, there are I believe nine classes.
EDS = Early die state
MDS = middle die state.  EMDS is early middle die state, LMDS is late middle die state
LDS = Late die state

Experienced dealers and collectors can usually tell if a coin has been cleaned.  If you are worried about that, I would find a coin dealer in the area you live to ask them about the coin.  You are experiencing a great learning opportunity in that demonstrates multiple organizations that grade coins are giving their opinions and they are different.  I am not as experienced as many on here, but "cleaning" is often times  evident from photos, so if you include some, someone may be able to help