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On 3/25/2024 at 8:47 PM, VKurtB said:

There too, huh?

It's everywhere, I like helping the new members but there being told junk by the internet. Finding truth on the internet is almost as bad as in politics.

Ok Green2 Here is what you are looking for. See if yours is a match.

 1957-D RPM-002 (varietyvista.com)

It looks like environmental damage has tarnished the copper. If you look at copper lanterns and roofs, they all turn that color after a while. 

On 3/22/2024 at 12:55 PM, Stan Gioia said:

Hi

Found a 1982D small date bronze but it only weights 2.82 grams. It is environmentally damaged which may account for the weight loss. I submitted it to PCSG and they said it was zinc. I am fighting with them but am getting nowhere. I believe the photos prove it is bronze. I removed some of the environmental damage on its rim and did the same to a zinc as shown in the attached photo. Thanks for taking a look.

 

                                                                                

You found one of the rarest coins in the US and scratched off the edge to prove it was a copper 1982 D .  Why would you do that. You could have sent it into NGC. Now it is a damaged 1982 D. I can say from the TRUEVIEW photos it looks like a zinc to me. PCGS Certificate Verification Coin Details for Cert #48855382

Hello Josh, I agree with the others it is not a DD and although repunched mint marks are recorded up to 1989 your coin is not on the list and looks like MD to me. 

On 3/6/2024 at 9:54 PM, Sandon said:

    Back when I attended college in Washington, D.C. in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I would go to the gift shop that the U.S. Mint (then the Bureau of the Mint) operated in the Treasury Building. The items offered for sale included these presumably leftover souvenir sets that had been assembled for the 1978 and 1979 ANA conventions. (As I recall, there was only a summer convention in those days.)  Although the items included in these sets are of no great value, the sets themselves are interesting mementos. I don't know how many were assembled and, while they might be found in dealers' "junk boxes", I don't remember seeing them in recent years.

   The 1978 set, created for the 1978 convention in Houston, Texas, included a then new 1978-D Eisenhower dollar and a small bronze Lyndon B. Johnson medal, along with a card explaining that Eisenhower and Johnson were "Our Two Texas-Born Presidents".

    The 1979 set, commemorating the 1979 convention held in St. Louis, Missouri, included a 1978 Eisenhower dollar and a 1979-P Susan B. Anthony dollar (common narrow rim variety), plus a card entitled "The Old Gives Way to the New" with biographical information about Eisenhower and Anthony and information about the coins.  

   

      I don't know whether the Mint created souvenir sets like these for other ANA conventions, but it is likely that such sets exist. If you have any, please feel free to post them here.

I will have to keep an eye out for these in my travels. 

On 3/22/2024 at 11:05 AM, JennyleeB said:

Thank you everyone for your comments. It's been very insightful. I do not know anything about coins and I will not pretend to know. This coin has been in my husband's family for generations. It was passed down to him when his mother passed away. They all lived in Massachusetts.  There is patina on it, so maybe that the appearance of looking old. It does have lead in it as I recently had it tested and was told by a local coin dealer it was real. We just became skeptical after doing some research on the coin itself and wanted to know more. So again, thank you everyone.

If you look at the coin I posted it says COPY. These coins have been copied for many years and the originals were made from pewter. We have not seen the coin in hand, but the photo looks more like my fake than the real deal. 

 1776 $1 Continental Currency Pewter (Regular Strike) Proposed National Issues - PCGS CoinFacts

Welcome Mustacheman..The coin you are trying to find is one of the rarest of the WAM + CAM cents the other is the 1999 wam. The members here have seen many posts on these coins from new members and are only trying to help. Almost everyone starts out looking to find error coins and it is no easy task. I roll hunt all the time and I can say in 60 years I have never found a coin in pocket change worth any more than a few bucks. I still look for nice BU coins for my coin folders and sometimes I get lucky but never rich. Here are two WAM coins the easier ones to find. Ya right   

Most of the time the modern coins are not worth the cost of grading unless the coin is worth $150 or more. I would just get a aftermarket plastic holder to keep it in.

I bought one from a US Federal Park store, just to show others what a new replica looks like. 

I can see a mark on the top of the 3. That looks like a chip. Hard to tell with these pictures.  The last discovery of a DDO Dime was a 1989 P and even that one is unrecognizable to me. It only has thicker letters.

In my registry proof only set the early SMS coins are in the lineup and also the SP coins

I found that the PCGS price guide will show the average price, not that it is worth that price, but it will give you some idea. Coins are only worth what someone is willing to pay for them.

Proof Sets (1936 to Date) Values - PCGS Price Guide

It is a very worn coin only worth its face value. Even though there is no face.

On 3/15/2024 at 6:27 AM, J P M said:

Wow a 55 that has not been opened is a cool find.

On 3/15/2024 at 4:29 PM, Sandon said:

    What you've bought is a true "pig in a poke". While I recall a fad decades ago of collectors and dealers buying and selling purportedly "unopened" proof and mint sets and even GSA silver dollars, I haven't heard of this much in recent years.  The $125 you paid for the 1955 proof set is full retail--Coin World Values has them at a range of $120 to $130--and you have no assurances of the actual contents of the box. I would never buy coins that I haven't had an opportunity to examine in person or at least through high resolution photos.  I would require opportunity to inspect such sets before buying them. What is the point of collecting coins if you can't look at and admire them, anyway?

I agree I have seen many box sets and all are priced at the $125 mark. And yes I would have opened it by now just to see how bad the rust is on the folds and see if it had a BB. If you are just into coins to flip them then it will not matter. 

I agree with Greenstang, It is not a easy task to find error coins. Many times, magnification can make you see things that will not matter in the end. 

On 3/15/2024 at 1:00 AM, Halbrook Family said:

I was in my local coin shop the other day and these two little old ladies were in there selling what I think was one of their husbands coin collection. I saw they had a few of the old box proof sets. About a half a dozen of them. I asked if they could hold some of them for me. Anyways I buy a unc and proof sets at the store and they didn't want to buy a bunch of things from the ladies and they asked the ladies if they wanted to sell them for me. I bought 32 unc and proof sets from them for $52 and I got some loose Canadian silver change (1919 and 1905 5 cents) and two of the unc sets had 40% silver half dollars. I needed 10 of the sets and upgraded a few more. Also included was a 1976 Denver souvenir set.  also a New Zealand 50th anniversary set of coinage 1933 - 1983. 

 Sorry for the long story but  I picked up one of the boxes today. A 1955 one. The guy who owned these kept his stuff in excellent shape. The unc sets and the proofs sets were excellent. The proofs were all still sealed. Obviously this box should be kept sealed right? I paid $125 for it. I also made $50 on the sets I didn't need and got about $40 in silver. I have them holding a 1954 set and a 1953 set as well. Are these sets worth less if opened? Is there varieties in the 1955? 

Wow a 55 that has not been opened is a cool find.

In my opinion. If a coin is toned or as we used to say tarnished it should only be on one side and maybe on a small bit of the edge on the other side. If it is toned on both sides, I tend to think it is artificial.

On 3/14/2024 at 5:20 PM, powermad5000 said:

We have all ruffled someone's feathers at some point. I agree with @J P M. The end result is a loss on their end.

Snow there, and a possibility of severe weather here today. We surely are in spring now.

Adult beverages sounds great today! 

I am on the road also; it was 74 today in Pensacola and when I get to Sarasota tomorrow it should be around 80. Now that is more like Spring. 

On 3/14/2024 at 11:15 AM, VKurtB said:

Sí señor. But I am no longer a National Volunteer for the ANA. I hissed off the Exec. Dir. by not sufficiently osculating the gluteals of marginally talented staff.

It is their loss.

On 3/14/2024 at 6:44 AM, VKurtB said:

So let me get the thought process right here. You look up the value of the finest known specimen of a coin, then look at yours, and think, “oh yeah, mine is AT LEAST that good”. Oh boy, do you have a lot of disappointment ahead of you. Someday I’d like someone to explain that thought process to me. I’ll buy the adult beverages. 
 

BTW, it is snowin’ like a sumbeyatch in Colorado Springs. We are expecting FEET of the stuff. 

You on the road again? Working the show?

Just out of curiosity, what type coins would you be thinking of grading. You can post a picture here if you like?

Sorry it is just a damaged coin.

On 3/12/2024 at 7:22 PM, VKurtB said:

When does the old stuff begin?

This was the only old stuff. The other stuff was only our age and not much better looking.

 I finished up the coin bucket. No keepers in the last few hundred coins . I did find two tokens mixed in with the cents. Seeing it is token Tuesday.