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1882 Shield nickel, PCGS graded MS 64: Photos courtesy of Stacks Bowers Galleries.

Welcome to the NGC chat board. Anything that looks green on a clad quarter (or most other coins) is either residue of a foreign substance or a corrosion product, neither of which is desirable. (Some uncirculated copper and some silver coins may develop a greenish toning that can be attractive, but that's not what is going on here.) Based on your photos, both of your circulated 1976 Bicentennial quarter appear to have been coated with glue and/or other foreign substances. (Soaking them in acetone might soften or remove this residue.) Even without the residue, they would have no numismatic value. Over 809 million were struck, and millions were saved in uncirculated grades. Only coins of significant value (at least several hundred dollars) are worth the cost of submitting to third-party grading services. Many still enjoy collecting lower value--and even higher value--coins in albums, hard plastic holders, or other appropriate holders. Knowledgeable collectors can grade and otherwise evaluate coins without having them encapsulated in bulky grading service holders. Even for those who collect only certified coins, knowledge of grading is important. For those who want to submit coins to grading services, it is essential.

All 1975 proof sets (over 2.8 million issued) contain "Type 1" Eisenhower dollars, and all 1976 Proof sets (over 4.1 million issued) contain "Type 2s". All proof sets issued since 1968 are struck at the San Francisco mint and are supposed to have the "S" mintmark. Based on the photos you provided, which are inadequate for a careful examination, your sets appear to contain pieces of typical quality. (The cent in the 1975 set has toned and wouldn't be worthy of a "red" designation, and some of the coins might not receive a "DCAM" or even "CAM" designation.) This month's Coin World Values provides a retail price range of $11 to $14 for the 1975 set and $10 to $12 for the 1976 set. The NGC grading fees alone for these sets would be $19 per coin, and it would be extremely unlikely that any of the coins in the sets would achieve a high enough grade (such as PF 70 DCAM) to make the cost worthwhile. Such pieces can often be purchased in NGC or PCGS certified holders in grades as high as PF 69 DCAM for less than the cost of submission. Unless you have the grading expertise yourself to determine that a coin would have a shot at getting a high enough grade and market value to make the cost worthwhile, you shouldn't submit it. You should enjoy these sets in their original packaging, which is sufficiently protective and provides historical context. That is how I've kept mine since I bought them from the mint in the years they were issued. (The 1975 set was my first one purchased from the mint.)

@Dieuwer--Welcome to the NGC chat board. The likely reason that you haven't received an answer from the NGC staff is because you posted your question on someone else's topic to which they had already responded. I recommend that you create a new topic for your inquiry. You could also contact NGC Customer Service at (855) 472-3310 or service@NGCCoin.com.

Welcome to the NGC chat board. I would really need better photos to evaluate this coin. Please provide full and, if possible, clearer photos of each side of the coin, right side up and cropped like this edit of the obverse: Although this might not be one of the immediately obvious counterfeits that we frequently see, I have never heard of a blundered edge like this on a 1795 Draped Bust dollar, and the color and certain other characteristics seem suspicious.

Welcome to the NGC chat board. The "Coin Marketplace" forum is for offers to buy or sell coins in accordance with the posted guidelines, not for questions about coins, which should be posted on the "U.S., World and Ancient Coins" forum or the "Newbie Coin Collecting Questions" forum. For an answer from the NGC staff, it should be posted on the "Ask NGC/NCS" forum. NGC will apparently attribute earlier U.S. coins with counterstamps listed in the Brunk reference, but not others. See US and World Tokens and Medals Graded by NGC | NGC (ngccoin.com). I assume that such pieces would not receive a numerical grade but could only be "Details" graded, as is NGC's practice with chopmarked trade dollars. It appears that coins defaced with unlisted counterstamps would be deemed "ineligible for encapsulation". See Early Copper “INELIGIBLE TYPE”. - Ask NGC/NCS - NGC Coin Collectors Chat Boards. You may want to contact NGC Customer Service or use the "Ask NGC/NCS" forum for a definitive answer.

@tklein--Welcome to the NGC chat board. In the future, please start a new topic instead of posting a new question about your own coin on someone else's old topic. Your question will be more accessible to users of the forum, and you, instead of the original topic author, will receive an e-mail indicating replies to your topic. Your 1979-P SBA dollar does appear to be the "wide rim" or "near date" variety. It is likely that PCGS didn't attribute it as such because the submitter didn't indicate that it was this variety and used the PCGS code for the common "narrow rim" variety, which isn't designated (#9571), instead of the code for the "wide rim" variety (#99571). NGC charges an $18 "VarietyPlus" fee to attribute most varieties but, fortunately, not this one. See Anthony Dollars (1979-1999) | VarietyPlus® | NGC (ngccoin.com). However, you would have to designate the variety on the NGC submission form and pay the full grading fee for the appropriate tier (presumably the $19 Modern tier) for the "Crossover" service referred to above as well as the related processing and shipping fees totaling $38. There would be no guarantee that NGC would agree with the PCGS grade, which could be lower or higher. As PCGS already graded the coin, you might want to check whether PCGS could make the attribution without charging the grading fee again.

1932 Lincoln cent in old PCI green bordered label holder graded MS 65 Red. The grade seems reasonable on this one, too:

1915 Indian Head quarter eagle, purchased as a Choice AU in 1988 but now NGC graded MS 63:

Welcome to the NGC chat board. As NGC does not provide free opinions, you should post topics like this on the "Newbie Coin Collecting Questions" forum or the "U.S., World, and Ancient Coins" forum. No, you should not "send it in." Your purported 1795 Draped Bust silver dollar is an obvious counterfeit of a type that has been mass produced in China for the last several decades. See 1795 DRAPED BUST $1 MS | Coin Explorer | NGC (ngccoin.com) to see what a genuine one looks like.

The only price guide available to me that lists this coin in this exact grade is the PCGS Price Guide, which gives a current retail value of $260 for an 1880-S Morgan dollar graded MS 64+ PL. https://www.pcgs.com/prices/detail/morgan-dollar/744/grades-61-70/ms. The NGC Price Guide lists an 1880-S Morgan dollar in MS 64 PL at $190 and in MS 65 PL at $275 (value last updated October 2020). Morgan Dollars (1878-1921) | Price Guide & Values | NGC (ngccoin.com). The current (April-June) CPG Rare Coin Market Review has MS 64 PL at $257 and MS 65 PL at $358. The green CAC sticker indicates that the coin is "solid for the grade" whether NGC or PCGS graded it in the opinion of the CAC graders, so the $260 usually high PCGS value is probably a good estimate. If you want to look for actual sale prices for CAC approved coins in this grade, you would likely do better to check the auction archives on the sites of major numismatic auctioneers, such as Great Collections, Heritage (ha.com), and Stacks Bowers. In my opinion, reported sales on eBay may be questionable.

Based on the relatively poor-quality photos, Uncirculated Details. The coin has likely been "cleaned" or polished.

It really is better to ask a specific question about a coin rather than ask if we can tell you anything about it. I'll just add that the coin appears to be in About Uncirculated condition. This month's Coin World Values lists a 1946 Lincoln cent grading AU 58 at all of 25 cents, but, as others have indicated, it's still a decent coin for a new or casual collector's album or folder.

Welcome to the NGC chat board. If possible, please try to provide clearer images of both sides of the coin, cropped like this to eliminate the surrounding surface: Based on the current image, the raised area above the "O" in "DOLLAR" appears to be from a die chip, which is regarded as a product of normal die wear or a quality control issue rather than a mint error. Coins with die chips are sometimes collected by new or casual collectors as novelties but generally aren't worth much if any premium and aren't attributed as mint errors by third-party grading services such as NGC. To attempt to answer your question, a nick or other mark on a coin from bag storage or circulation would be mostly a depressed area of disturbed metal, with some raised displaced metal at its edges. The topic of mint errors is an advanced one that requires more basic knowledge about coins and especially knowledge of how they are made. There are many different kinds of mint errors that differ widely in appearance and even more kinds of damage that a coin can suffer after it is struck. It is extremely unusual to find any significant error coin in circulation. If you are a new collector who wants to know more about U.S. coins and how to collect them, please so inform us so that we can direct you to appropriate basic resources. For some introductory information about mint errors, please see the following: Learn Grading: What Is a Mint Error? — Part 1 | NGC (ngccoin.com) Learn Grading: What Is a Mint Error? — Part 2 | NGC (ngccoin.com) Learn Grading: What Is a Mint Error? — Part 3 | NGC (ngccoin.com) Learn Grading: What Is a Mint Error? — Part 4 | NGC (ngccoin.com) The site error-ref.com provides more comprehensive information about mint errors.

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The "Features" column of the Numista page to which you provided a link indicates that the normal "Orientation" of this issue is "coin alignment", meaning that the dies are supposed to be aligned 180 degrees apart as you describe. Coin alignment, also known as "coin turn", is standard for U.S. coins, but most coins of other countries are struck in "medallic alignment", also known as "medal turn", in which when one side is facing up, so is the other. (However, when you flip over a coin struck in coin alignment instead of rotating it between your thumb and forefinger, each side will be at the same angle.) U.S. coins that were mistakenly struck in medallic alignment or other significant deviations from coin alignment are considered mint errors and may be worth a premium as such. See Mint Error Coin Chronicles: Rotated Dies Error | NGC (ngccoin.com).

@Denny Crane--Welcome to the NGC chat board. Please start a new topic when you want to discuss a coin different from the one posted by the topic author. Additionally, please post clear, cropped images of each full side of the coin, not just a close-up. Your post doesn't indicate what denomination or type of coin you want to discuss. For the record, although the topic title refers to a 1966 dime, the coin whose images were posted is a 1996-D.

To learn how to distinguish coins struck from doubled dies from coins exhibiting strike doubling (a.k.a. machine or mechanical doubling) or die deterioration doubling, see the following: Double Dies vs. Machine Doubling | NGC (ngccoin.com) https://www.doubleddie.com/144801.html and links at the bottom of the page.

1920 Pilgrim Tercentenary commemorative half dollar, NGC graded MS 65:

I appear to have been mistaken, but I tried enlarging the area of the "A" and "M" on the original photo and could see no separation at the bottom of the letters before the image became too pixilated. I have no difficulty telling the difference in the "AM" on the actual coins under normal magnification. I can barely see that the "G" in "FG" has a crossbar and slightly more pronounced serif. This post demonstrates the limitations of photos as opposed to viewing actual coins.

If you're just using this low value coin to learn how to grade Lincoln cents, yours is a legitimate question. I would grade the coin Choice About Uncirculated (55-58) by current standards in terms of details. It has "rub" and slight loss of details on the highest points of Lincoln's cheek, jaw, and hair and the base of the Lincoln Memorial. Much of the mint luster ("red" or brown) is present. Based on the photos, it doesn't appear to me to have been plated or otherwise altered or impaired, but it does have a number of small marks and abrasions that are consistent with a coin that has probably frequently in contact with other coins and hard objects. If you're trying to collect Lincoln cents by date and mint, I would try to obtain a better example.

Your topic will likely receive more attention in the "Newbie Coin Collecting Questions" forum, to which the Administrator will likely move it during the week. You should provide images directly from your computer, not shots of your computer screen, which are too fuzzy. You should provide images of each full side of the coin, as well as pertinent closeups. From what I can see, there appears to be strike doubling (a.k.a. machine or mechanical doubling) north of the letters in "AMERICA", not evidence of a doubled die. See Double Dies vs. Machine Doubling | NGC (ngccoin.com). If you aren't able to provide better images, you may want to check such sites as doubleddie.com and varietyvista.com to see if there are any known minor doubled die reverse varieties of 1996 cents that are a match.

This coin has been damaged by acid, resulting in its rough and discolored surfaces and the excessive loss of metal at its core. If you thought the coin was collectable, you shouldn't have been holding it with your bare hands, except by its edges if you must. Skin oils can also be quite detrimental.

The coin is a close AM, not a wide AM. The "A" and "M" nearly touch at the bottom. The letters are farther apart on the wide AM, as shown on this NGC VarietyPlus photo: As for the grade, the coin appears to have too many nicks and spots to grade MS 67. MS 65, which in my opinion shouldn't be considered a "Gem" grade anymore, is a more reasonable assessment.

1929-D Lincoln cent in an old green bordered label PCI holder graded MS 65 Red & Brown. The grade seems reasonable.