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I really couldn't care less, but when you make a spurious argument, it might benefit someone else for you to be challenged on it. All this "what about blah blah blah" goes right over my head. There was no reason for the Switt coins to be split 50-50 like there was with the Farouk coin. The export license was a mistake that couldn't be undone. There was no such mitigating circumstance with the Switt coins. So, the short answer to your original question is, yes, I think the government was entitled to all 10 of them, given the outcome of the case, unless they were feeling really magnanimous, and they weren't.

You seem to conveniently forget that an export license was granted for the Farouk coin. That's a big difference between that case and the Switt hanky-panky. Your mind is made up though.

The easy answer is that everyone benefits from knowing whether there are new counterfeits out there that are fooling at least one TPG, and what they look like. From what I've gleaned these are $1000 coins.

In other words, the coin you've had for the longest time. Include the year you got it and a story if you want. Mine is among many I got from my grandfather in 1972. My siblings and two cousins sat around a table and picked coins out of a pile, round-robin. Afterwards, there was a bit of horse trading. When I found out how much this one was worth, I was hooked for life. My grandfather was head librarian at the Chicago Tribune during the 1940s and 50s. People mailed in coins from all over the world, and I think some reporters returning from assignments also brought some.

I'd go 99.9% on it's fake. Look at the pits on the surfaces of Liberty and the date and the lapel. The US Mint didn't make dies that crappy.

Because some of us don't care what slab it's in and don't sell our coins. I think that's the easiest answer. Whether I agree with the grade or not, it's not worth the effort playing the crackout game when I'm never going to sell anything anyway. My heirs can deal with it if they want to.

I'm in the "took a hit" camp. There's another one at the bow tie that also moved a lot of metal, and also in a relatively straight line.

This. There's a certain personality that loves getting under people's skin. I don't waste much bandwidth on it, and the Ignore feature has made this a very peaceful thread for me. The peripheral discussion is interesting and entertaining though.

I'm always wrong so why not. MS62★

It looks like what they call a "blacksmith token", used primarily in Canada up to the 1830s. I don't know anything about them so maybe it leads you in the right direction or maybe you could quickly rule it out.

Is this what you think is an extra leaf? The only "doubled" dies on Wexler for these is in the earlobe and the cow's nostril.

Look at Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand, to a certain extent Australia, etc etc. We could have, and possibly still could, shut this thing down in a month if we had the commitment and some real leadership. I don't need to tell you what the "war steps" would be, just look at what the reasonably successful countries have done, and what a pathetic failure the US has been so far in comparison. We can put our precious "freedum" aside for a month and then stay on top of it. When we have a massive forest fire where I live, we don't just go "Oh well, stuff burns. I'm tired of being evacuated". We fight it and contain it until it's out.

We are at war with a pandemic, duh. It will take a war footing to get out of this, if we really want to get out of it. Grab any excuse you want from your excuses bag. It doesn't take a genius to see where this "screw it" attitude has gotten us.

A partial collar error on a 2013 $5 sold in April for $630. That's the only value reference point I could find quickly at Heritage. A minor curved clip sold on ebay for $99. I imagine you would get a premium for it from the right collector, but who knows how much.

5% of the people in my age group (60-69) and state, who tested positive, are DEAD. That's 1 in 20. I'm not ready to die with glass in my lungs and tubes down my throat - are you? We are at war. It's about time we admit that, and deal with it accordingly.

Happy 5000th!

Come on, what I said wasn't that bad, and it wasn't directed at you anyway, it was a bantering response in general to VKurtB, our resident curmudgeon. Besides, look at the images you started with. I did the best I could with those, and I'm happy to be wrong.

My god, this has been going on for two and a half weeks. Somebody start a gofundme for the submission fees on the condition that the OP posts the slab and let's put this thing out of its misery.

People go from the "strike it rich" video straight to "I have one" and skip over the "knowing what to look for" part. I mean, it can't hurt to ask, I guess. The guy who found the first one searched 5000 coins using a homemade fulcrum scale made from toothpicks! He was really just looking to hoard copper - not sure how he even knew a small date was possible. I crushed someone's dream over on CCF a couple days ago, just to stay in practice. Boy did I get reamed out! Yes. Zooming in on your cropped image though, it also appears that the curve of the 9 points below the 8, which I think is another marker for large date. On the small date, the 2 is at least the width of the bottom of the 2 away from the rim (from what I can see), so if you extrapolate that distance onto your image it's almost off the edge.

There are elongated coins from there, so that causes me to wonder if there's a gift/souvenir shop that sold these?

Isn't the 2 too close to the rim to be small date? Also, the mint mark is in the wrong position compared with the two known examples, below.

Everything Coinbuf says +1. And it definitely depends on what you decide to collect and your budget. I recent completed a set of all the transition varieties of Barber dimes, and since my criteria was having one of each, without breaking the bank (for me that's less than about $300/coin), I ended up with anywhere from raw AG3/G4 through slabbed MS64. As a wide generality, I find AU58-MS63 the optimum range. I figure if I ever have to sell, someone will also be looking to buy it in that range.

I saw that last night. Still flailing away? I guess I'll go over there for entertainment.