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Next to miscellaneous work - coffee bags!? Nice birthday present Karen.

I think you're confusing raised metal on the tops of letters with actual doubling. Great images though.

Looks like FS-501. Nice find.

His bas reliefs of the Ames brothers are on the Ames Monument out in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming at the high point of the original transcontinental railroad. I get a kick out of pointing that out to visitors when we take them around out there. There's a picture of a double eagle on the informative display. I'll be a pariah on here for saying so, but I never thought the "most beautiful coin" was all that great. Her top looks like she's carrying a bag of rocks, her face looks like a Roman helmet bashed in, her legs are both inside her dress and outside it (pick one!), and the sun rays emanate from god knows where. There, I said it. The eagle on the reverse is amazing though.

"Report post" and "Ignore User" are the only ways to deal with this, until it gets taken care of for the 5th time. This person is not here to contribute anything or learn anything, only to get attention. It's a bit sad, but perhaps someday they'll learn how to act around adults.

Fotos como la del anverso y reverso por favor. Photos like that of the front and back please.

Google translate says the last line as "On the 3 mm edge spoken it says: One dollar - Unit hundred cents - Also of some guards, stars, etc.". I thought "guards" might be vertical separation lines or something, but I don't know what the exact edge lettering looks like on these. It has that "fake look" but these images might be scans, which I find really distorts things. Perhaps ask them for more pictures.

If acetone requires a special permit, I would be wary that your nail polish removers are non-acetone, which are usually ethyl acetate. I have no idea what ethyl acetate does to coins. Since you've used it before I guess you've checked the ingredients; just something that popped into my head.

If my understanding is correct, in this era the working dies were hubbed to a dateless master hub and then each was punched with the date after hubbing. So, each working die was either annealed again prior to punching the date, or it was already "soft" right after hubbing the rest of the design. Mr. Lange doesn't want to speculate on it, but there are so many of them during this era, across other denominations, that I'm not buying the disgruntled employee scenario. I'm also not believing such precise work involved so many "accidentally" misplaced dates so far away from where they should be. So I have to speculate that it was a common practice, whatever the purpose was. The "foreign tool" idea - David Poliquin speculates (http://www.indiancentvarieties.com/1897_variety017.html) that the "1" on the subject variety appears smaller because it's the 1 punch from a Barber dime. It's an interesting idea, although he thinks it's the upper left serif, and I think it's the lower left. Technically it could be an N or M or I (not that I know whether they had separate punches for letters).

I don't know anything about these but it sure doesn't scream "fake" to me. I got as far as seeing that the reverse has what looks like a cud / crack that resembles the one on Overton 107a, but the vines & berries are different. Google translate says the OP's comment is partly "in song it has an inscription fifty cents or half dollar" - is this referring to edge lettering? If that's accurate, a plus for being real. NGC says "19 obverse and 22 reverse dies are known" so I'll wait for an expert.

I have a couple quarters and nickels that I folded in some cheap hotel cardboard while out east, to protect them because they were the first 2017-P I had encountered. A few months later they had picked up some golden and steel blue subtle toning, so I left them in there. 3 years later I think they're in a terminal state now, i.e. it hasn't changed for a long time. I suppose the cardboard is done outgassing sulphur or whatever it was.

I'm ~60 miles from the Denver Mint, and unscientifically, it takes about 5 years for a Philly coin to show up here. Probably trickling in from tourists. Facebook is for finding people from high school that you haven't seen or heard about for 45 years and then realizing why.

Weren't they punching the date separately from hubbing the rest of the design though? If they were "testing the hardness" I can see where it would be near the date. Since they were about to punch the date, the die would be oriented that way and they would test near their "work area". Just speculating. The list of top 25 seated dime misplaced date varieties (http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/major_25_mpd_table.htm) shows most of them somewhere inside the seated Liberty, not the denticles. They weren't accidentally dropping punches that many times. It seems like a common practice during this era, for whatever reason.

"The reason the Mint changed from what collectors call a Large Date to the Small Date is because zinc does not strike up like copper or a predominantly copper alloy. The Mint struck the copper hard and fast but quickly learned in 1982 that the strike was not satisfactory on the coins minted on the copper-plated zinc planchets." from https://www.numismaticnews.net/article/rare-1982-d-small-date-copper-found. I wonder if this coin is evidence of the problems they were having.

I've read speculation that the MPDs that are in the denticles were from testing whether the die was soft enough (during annealing). Do a little punch where nobody will see it, kind of thing. Maybe they did this in the center of the die presuming that the hubbing of the portrait would wipe out the evidence. I'm not quite buying the accidentally dropped punch theory. Seated dimes seem to have a lot of MPDs kind of like this.

That's what I meant. Still circulating in the US though!

I think the point is that you have to start by looking for varieties that are already known, and learn how to identify them. When you don't know what you're looking at, the chance that it's something new is near zero. Even if it was a new discovery, the road through confirmation, attribution, publication, and collector interest is a long one, before you get to "rare" and "valuable".

You caused me to actually look up what the heck "gilt edge butter" means.

OK, now I think it might be the lower left serif of a 1, not the top left. I was fooled into thinking the neck line is the left side of a 1, and the necklace bead adds to the illusion.

It says "Dr. Rear", hence my "joke".

I was expecting to see proctology listed. All I can think of for "8 square" is California gold maybe.

That coin is so beat up, nearly every letter and digit has had metal moved around. Don't confuse damage with "doubling".

It's also attributed here (https://www.ngccoin.com/variety-plus/united-states/cents/indian-cents-1859-1909/815485/) as FS-401, excellent images here and ATS. I don't see any doubt that @Kurisu has the same variety. I can't figure out which part of the "1" it's supposed to be though. The real 1 is squared off at the upper left serif and the MPD points upward at almost 45 degrees.

I see raised metal on the tops of the letters, not doubling. Perhaps someone sees something else. I don't know exactly what causes it - worn out die or something with ejection from the die. I first noticed it on a few of my Franklin halves, such as this.

Apparently NGC slabs private issue stuff without numeric grades, certs or barcodes. I was not aware of this until recently. Search for "smithsonian confederate restrike" for another example.