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Welcome to the NGC chat board. Just click the link that the Administrator provided and provide the information requested at the bottom of the page at "Reply to This Topic". You would need examples of pertinent NGC certified coins of these types to provide the requested certification numbers. I assume that these are modern coins, not ancients, as there are no competitive sets for ancient coins.

The coins that you are posted are small dates, but, yes, the 1982 is common regardless of its composition, and the 1982-Ds are common if they are copper plated zinc, as they almost certainly are.

Respectfully, your worn and badly scratched 1976-D Bicentennial quarter is only worth its face value of 25 cents. Even almost all uncirculated examples of this issue wouldn't be worth the cost of submission to a third-party grading service, which is what I assume what you mean by "having it graded". Before you even think about submitting coins to grading services, it is essential that you have a good understanding of how to grade and otherwise evaluate coins yourself. Many coins that are of insufficient value to justify third-party grading and encapsulation may be enjoyably collected in coin albums or other appropriate holders. Please refer to the following forum topics that identify reliable print and online resources from which you may learn about how to evaluate and collect U.S. coins:

No, unless it had been struck on a leftover 95% copper, 5% zinc blank, which would weigh approximately 3.11 grams and likely have to pass other tests for authentication. Only two have been found. 1982-D small dates struck from the new copper plated zinc alloy (approximately 2.5 grams), like all other varieties of 1982 and 1982-D cents are extremely common and would only be worth face value in any condition that you could expect to find them in circulation. Yes. Based upon the quotation you are showing, the website you are looking at is apparently spreading false information. Over 10.7 billion 1982 (no mintmark) cents were made, all of whose four varieties (all possible combinations of large and small dates and the old 95% copper and new copper plated zinc alloys) are common. The majority of the mintage was of the old alloy, whose standard weight of 3.11 grams would be the same for all cents going back to 1865, except for 1943 steel cents. Please use accepted resources such as those I referred you to in one of your earlier topics and not random websites, some of which contain false or incomplete information. Have you at least obtained a "Red Book"? The 2025 edition is now available from its publisher (whitman.com) and elsewhere.

As acknowledged by the ANA Grading Guide (note at p. 240 of seventh edition) Capped Bust, lettered edge half dollars are frequently weakly struck in areas including the clasp and hair. The large amount of remaining luster on this coin indicates that the weakness on the clasp and surrounding area of the hair are due to striking weakness.

1877 gold dollar, mintage 3,900; now NGC graded MS 61:

I think that the OP knows perfectly well that his 1957-D cent is just damaged. I'll refrain from speculating on his motives for claiming that a scraped and crushed coin exhibits "die failure".

Based on the photos, I would say that this 1829 Capped Bust half dollar should grade AU 55 to 58 by today's commercial (NGC or PCGS) grading standards. The coin has some hairlines but probably not enough to be deemed "cleaned". Some pieces of this era that show "rub" are given low mint state grades, but this coin shows definite loss of detail due to wear on Liberty's cap and hair and the eagle's neck and feathers. I like the old small ANACS holders and usually how coins were graded in them. They are becoming a collector's item in their own right. If I were you, I wouldn't remove the coin from the holder and resubmit it.

@samclemen3991--Coins used in "mint sets", especially from the 1960s and 70s, weren't different from those "actually MADE to circulate". They are frequently bag marked or otherwise abraded, struck from worn dies, and show no signs of having been given any special striking or handling. It appears that random bags were sent from the production floor to be used in "mint sets". These coins can't really be considered collector's issues; they were just packaged and sold to collectors. Many of the uncirculated coins of this era that are sold as singles, certified or uncertified, likely originated in these sets. One dealer who handles a lot of modern coins, both certified and uncertified, is Wayne Herndon Rare Coins, https://wayneherndon.com/index.php/about/. Herndon's business is largely wholesale and dealer to dealer but does offer coins to collectors at coin shows in the mid-Atlantic region at reasonable prices.

You really do need to provide photos of the entire coin for us to evaluate it properly. I think that what your closeup shows is simply the base of the steps at the right side of the building on the current (2006 to date) version of the Jefferson nickel, which is more deeply engraved than the steps themselves. Here is a closeup of the same area on a 2008-S proof nickel, where you can see the same deeper line at the base:

The Philadelphia mint reportedly coined 7,261,535,000 1989 cents, and the Denver mint reportedly coined 5,345,467,111 1989-Ds. Do you intend to "send in" every one that you find in change? You have presented no evidence whatsoever that this coin was struck in any unusual composition. Here is a cropped version of your largest photo, which though still blurry shows nothing remarkable about the date other than possible strike doubling but clearly shows the plating blisters that, even in the absence of an accurate measurement of the coin's weight, indicate that the coin was struck on a copper plated zinc planchet: Yes, we are all here to learn something. I've been collecting and studying U.S. coins for nearly 53 years and still have things to learn, but I'm sure that I could teach you a great deal if you were only willing to listen.

The "transition" had occurred back in 1982. If there were any 95% copper pieces struck at any mint in 1989, I haven't heard it from the numismatic press. Where did you obtain this information? Why do you believe that your 1989 cent was struck in the old composition? You don't state its weight, which would be approximately 3.11 grams if it were, as opposed to approximately 2.5 grams for the copper plated zinc composition that it should be. Even from the uncropped photos provided, the coin exhibits numerous plating blisters, which are indicative of its being a normal copper plated zinc example.

If this coin is a "mint error", then the Lincoln cents that PCGS used to illustrate the lowest grades of FR 02, AG 03, and G 04 were also "mint errors." See https://www.pcgs.com/photograde#/Lincoln/Grades.

What the OP is saying is largely supposition. He claims he has "evidence" but hasn't presented any that I've seen. I can provide a scenario that is just as likely and is based upon my own observations. Although many "mint sets" of this era have undoubtedly been cut up for singles or the silver in the half dollars, many of the coins they contained were sold separately and kept in coin albums or 2x2 holders, where most of them likely still reside. (I doubt that many dealers felt it necessary to spend the remaining 83 cents in face value.) Many other sets are still intact and in the possession of their original owners or their descendants. (I still have 1968 and 1969 sets that I received as gifts in 1972 or '73, and I think I have at least one duplicate 1968 set that I received as a coin club door prize years later.) Their sheer abundance and resulting low market values don't give much motivation to these owners to sell them, and those sets and singles that are sold or are otherwise held in dealer inventory provide a sufficient supply to satisfy collector demand at current prices. As I previously stated, the condition of the surviving coins and sets is a different issue, but "generic" uncirculated pieces are unlikely in my opinion to be valuable in the foreseeable future. Of course, if people who don't know better can be persuaded that they are scarce or rare and to pay high prices for them, as is the case with common date Morgan and Peace dollars, anything is possible.

Please compare your 1957-D cent to the coins posted on the following topic:

What is the factual basis of this statement? I assume that it is nothing more than a guess.

I read the date as 1917. Whatever its date, it is a well-worn coin that would grade no better than G 4. It may have been as well struck as the 1916-S shown by @Coinbufbut was extensively used in commerce as was common for coins of that era when even a cent could buy something.

Based on your photos, I see no indication that your coin was struck from either an obverse or reverse doubled die. (It would be extremely unusual for both the obverse and reverse of a coin to exhibit die doubling.) I see no doubling of any kind. NGC will generally only attribute varieties that are listed on VarietyPlus, and there are no listed varieties for 1993 cents. Lincoln Cents, Memorial Reverse (1959-2008) | VarietyPlus® | NGC (ngccoin.com). I understand that PCGS also only attributes certain (better known) varieties and that ANACS will attribute more minor ones, but they would have to be recognized by some respected authority or be a significant new discovery. Have you checked such sites as doubleddie.com and varietyvista.com, which list more varieties, for a match? You could also post photos that show where you see doubling for our opinions.

The mint reportedly sold 2,105,128 uncirculated coin sets in 1968 and 1,817,192 such sets in 1969, each containing an uncirculated Philadelphia dime. Even if collectors hadn't saved a single coin issued for circulation and assuming some attrition from "mint set" coins that were spent after people removed the half dollar for its silver, these sets are still in ample supply. They are easily found at coin shows from dealers who are willing to take them and other sources and list $6 to $8 in this month's Coin World. It's just not reasonable to suggest that these coins in their usual grades will ever be "rare" in any practical sense of that word.

Welcome to the NGC chat board. I'm sorry, but from what I can see in your photos, it appears that your coin has been damaged by immersion in acid that ate off much of its outer clad layers and reduced its weight. See https://www.error-ref.com/acid-shrunk-coins/. Although there are clad coins that were struck from blanks that lacked a portion of an outer cladding layer, the partial cladding would likely only be on one side, and the coin would not be this underweight or have a rough surface. Compare https://www.error-ref.com/?s=partial+cladding+layer. In the future, please try to crop your photos so that they give us a better view of the coin and don't show much of the surrounding surface and orient them in an upright position.

Isn't this the same coin that you posted yesterday at Error - Newbie Coin Collecting Questions - NGC Coin Collectors Chat Boards?

I've been following this topic and its predecessors but have refrained from participating until now. To the extent that the OP's position is that most modern (however defined) issues mass produced for circulation are scarce in what we would now call "gem" to "superb gem" uncirculated grades, I agree. However, it is unreasonable to expect that such coins would exist in any quantity in such grades. Most such coins probably graded no higher than MS 64 by current standards when removed from mint bags due to the abrasion that occurs throughout the minting and distribution processes and a large portion of them having been struck from worn dies to begin with. Most examples in mint sets have the same characteristics and sometimes scrapes from packaging equipment to boot. The focus of some collectors on "high grade" coins among circulating issues is, in my opinion, misguided. If you collect such coins, you must expect them to have some number of abrasions, striking weakness, and the like. I doubt that these coins will ever be scarce in the usual uncirculated grades. Although all coins gain some collector value when they become old enough and are "out of circulation", I don't think that any modern issues will be worth much in our lifetimes in circulated grades or for, that matter, some time thereafter. Unlike previous eras where coins were heavily used in everyday transactions and wore down to low grades within a few decades, many people today seem to dump their daily change into containers, let it accumulate for years if not decades, and finally take it to a bank or a "Coinstar" machine from which it may finally reenter circulation, however briefly. Many coins 40 or more years old would still grade AU, and I rarely see a coin that would grade below VF in detail. As a young collector in the 1970s and 80s, I noticed that certain recent coins had what I thought were "low" mintages (below 200 million) and made it a point to save every example I found. This included 1968-D and 1971 nickels, 1969 dimes, and 1968-D, 69, 69-D, 70, and 71 quarters. I also saved every "S" mint coin I found regardless of mintage, every "wheat" cent, and every nickel dated before 1960. Additionally, I saved and continue to save every decent looking uncirculated coin handed to me out of new rolls. The result is that I have tubes and bags of such coins in a closet that still have insufficient market value to even think about selling. I doubt that I'm the only one.

1896 Indian cent, ANACS graded MS 64 RB (old small holder):

Welcome to the NGC chat board and thank you for the clear photos. As the NGC Registry forum is intended for topics pertaining to the certified coin registry, your post would get better attention on the "U.S. World, and Ancient Coins" forum or the "Newbie Coin Collecting Questions" forum. (The Administrator will likely move it to one of them.) You appear to have a nice mint "red" uncirculated 1993 cent. If you found it in recent change, it is presumably from a roll that was kept until recently and for some reason was opened and spent. As 1993 Lincoln cents have a reported mintage of 5,684,705,000 pieces, it will never be a rare coin but is worth preserving in its current condition so that it may be enjoyed by future generations of collectors. If it has been touched by bare hands or certain other surfaces, it will likely spot and darken unless it is decontaminated. I recommend soaking it briefly in acetone or at least clean (preferably distilled) water, rinsing it in such water and patting (not rubbing) it dry with a clean tissue. Once dry, it should be placed in a mylar coin flip, coin capsule, or another appropriate holder or coin album. Hold the coin only by its edges.

1900 Barber quarter, NGC graded PF 64, in an older holder, apparently before NGC awarded "cameo" designations: Photos courtesy of Stacks Bowers Galleries.