Lem E

1970

Just got in the mail today.

Large Stars, O-112, R1

I will push up the date a bit.
 

Last time I checked there were around 35 examples across all years and grades AU-58 and lower with a full step designation in the NGC census. I have 2 of them in my collection. One is a 1941 D AU-58 6FS and the other is a 1989 P AU-58 5 FS. I think they were $30 for the 41 and $20 for the 89. I bought them as curiosity pieces because, at the time, I thought that they had to be mint state to get a FS designation. This holds true ATS but NGC will give anything that has full steps the designation. 

Last time I checked there were around 35 examples across all years and grades AU-58 and lower with a full step designation in the NGC census. I have 2 of them in my collection. One is a 1941 D AU-58 6FS and the other is a 1989 P AU-58 5 FS. I think they were $30 for the 41 and $20 for the 89. I bought them as curiosity pieces because, at the time, I thought that they had to be mint state to get a FS designation. This holds true ATS but NGC will give anything that has full steps the designation. 

I highly disagree. Nice toning can impact the price of a coin 10 fold and can even bump a grade up. Here are a couple of examples. These coins without the toning are average $20/50 coins. 
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204491780890?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PE82r1_dRIu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=j9LjZZhwTEm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134770178933?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PE82r1_dRIu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=j9LjZZhwTEm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

In a mint, "annealing" is a process where planchets are heated and then cooled to relieve the internal stresses that developed in the metal during the rolling and punching processes.
Annealing has the effect of softening the metal to make the planchets easier to strike and reduce wear and breakage of dies.
"Sintering" is a process to solidify metal particles into a solid mass. This can be useful when the powder is molded into a shape and then heated to a point where the metal particles fuse together, but not completely melt. The result is a seemingly solid piece of metal in the intended molded shape.
Sintered metal errors on coins are typically the result of dirty metal particles that get stuck on planchets and then are fused onto them during the annealing process. Such sintered metal layers on a coin are typically very thin (like electro-plating) and do not generally present as laminations or delaminations. Note that clad layers in a coin are not sintered (they are melted metal which was cooled, rolled out to thickness, and then the layers bonded together).
"Heat Treating" typically refers to a process to harden metal (such as a coinage die), and/or to temper an item to make is less susceptible to cracking.
PS:
The coin shown at the beginning of this discussion appears to have been stained by something after it left the Mint.

I highly disagree. Nice toning can impact the price of a coin 10 fold and can even bump a grade up. Here are a couple of examples. These coins without the toning are average $20/50 coins. 
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204491780890?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PE82r1_dRIu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=j9LjZZhwTEm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134770178933?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PE82r1_dRIu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=j9LjZZhwTEm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I think its natural toned also. I really like it. Do the spots look like anything that can be removed? Still a beautiful nickel. I love the colors those older nickels can tone. Ive seen some beauties. @Buffalo Head has some amazing toners in his collection. 

I have to disagree with you about toning not affecting price. Ive seen coins with attractive toning bring very high premiums over coins with unattractive toning in the same grade range. As long as its natural and not artifical, a very attractive toned coin, depending on what it is, can fetch a hefty price. I mainly collect silver Washington quarters from 1932-1964. I search Ebay and other sites like that all the time looking for deals and my next addition. Ive seen quarters on those sites with very ugly black and brown toning on there for cheap prices that have been on there for over 2 years now with no buyers. Then Ive seen very attractively toned quarters get put on there and sell quickly for a hundred or more dollars than what they are priced for in the NGC price guide. Ive also seen coins artifically toned that greatly ruined the value of them.  Anyone who has collected for a while can tell you toning can greatly affect the value of a coin. 

At least this one is offering a return policy so maybe just doesn't know what they are doing. Most of the real scammers have no returns so they can disappear with the money. Also when a scammer lists a coin for say $500 and someone who doesn't know anything comes along and makes a listing and says if that guy is going to get $500, I'll ask $525 for mine. Then you have a scammer and an uneducated. And it grows exponentially.

Wow, ,,, the wording is correct. It has no mint mark and it is a post war coin. Oh my ....

This is the type of stuff I just don’t get. Do people buy things like this? I don’t know if the seller is good, bad or a little touched in the head but the price is just a bit steep. I do feel that if a buyer doesn’t take a minute and think about buying something like this then they deserve to own it. 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134572724311?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=3FzRmuDwRkC&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=j9LjZZhwTEm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I highly disagree. Nice toning can impact the price of a coin 10 fold and can even bump a grade up. Here are a couple of examples. These coins without the toning are average $20/50 coins. 
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204491780890?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PE82r1_dRIu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=j9LjZZhwTEm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134770178933?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PE82r1_dRIu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=j9LjZZhwTEm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I highly disagree. Nice toning can impact the price of a coin 10 fold and can even bump a grade up. Here are a couple of examples. These coins without the toning are average $20/50 coins. 
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204491780890?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PE82r1_dRIu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=j9LjZZhwTEm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
 
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134770178933?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=PE82r1_dRIu&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=j9LjZZhwTEm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY