Conder101

Your questions are fine, that's one of the reasons many of us are here. To pass on information.

Then have ICG do all your slabbing and don't submit to NGC.

The difference between an uncentered broadstrike and and off-center is that on the broadstrike all the details are still on the planchet, and on the off center some of the details are off the edge of the planchet. This is an off-center.

In the last two pictures withthe change in angle and lighting the "T" disappears completely. The eye and brain was seeing something that isn't there.

I also think this may be an impaired proof.

It also has a BIG scratch. So figure 5 to 10 cents at best.

Eye appeal wise originally maybe a 5 of 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being best, now maybe a 2.

No one can predict the future or what collectors will suddenly HAVE to have. If suddenly a lot of people decide they really want proof libertads you could make out like a badit, If everyone decides to chase whatever the next hot item is, you may find yourself holding a lot of expensive bullion. Good piece of advice, never invest more in a coin than you can cheerfully afford to lose.

Well when you consider that in the US there are probably between 50 and 100 thousand people trying to put the set together, 400 coin is at least kind of rare because at any one time a large percentage of them are tied up in collections and not on the market. But even with those pops there are nowhere near enough of them available to begin to cover collector demand. Even so it is still just a grade rarity and it is only "rare" if you insist that you HAVE to have it in 70. (a grade which if they were resubmitted many probably wouldn't get a second time around.

Yes, when the die is over polished enough that the neck disappears and the head is disconnected from the body. It happens most years but last you someone reported a "floating head" 2019 cent to Coin World and they made a fuss over it. We had people coming by and asking about floating heads and what they were worth on the forums for weeks. Nobody seemed to be willing to accept the answer "nothing".

Only if the dropped T is still there and hasn't fallen out of the coin. Even then it would be flush with the surface not raised. I think it's going to turn out to be a case of pareidolia.

BU dates back quite a ways. Grabed a reference and find it was used in the first year of the CDN in 1963, grabbed a bound volume of the Numismatic Scrapbook for 1958 and find it being used in the January issue. I didn't go searching through any of the earlier years but I would suspect I would find it going back quite a bit further. the main difference back then between an Unc and a BU coin was the toning. If the coin was a little toned and/or the luster subdued it was Unc, If it was white and flashy it was Brilliant Uncirculated. The key word being "brilliant".

Because no one was bothing to respond to the troll anymore. And I guess he needed someone else to continue carrying out his fantasy with.

If you can't trace your coin back to the sale of the coins from Eva Adams estate, then you don't have an 1964 SMS coin.

He did concede the point about grade rarities, but other than those he is right, there are no great rarities in the ASE series. Best it has are the 1995-W proof and the 2019 (S or W can't remember which) reverse proof. In the bullion coins the best you get is the 1996 with a mintage of over 3.5 million. The only "rarity" that wasn't specifically made to be a collector rarity is the 2008 rev of 2007 Burnished, and it was still a coin specifically made for collectors, it just happened to be a variety as well.

Not the big money 55 DDO, there are several lesser doubled dies for this year, I don't know it it is one of those or not.

It is NOT the big money DDO, I can't tell if it is the lesser one.

Since they are still just basically a random selection of business strike coins, I would expect a bell curve distribution of grades centering somewhere around MS-64. That means 70% between 63 and 65 maybe 20% between 65 and 66 9+% between 66 and 67 and less than 1% better than 67.

Yes just damage and it dates between 1959 and 1982 (has a wide AM and the weight indicates it is a 95% copper cent.) I don't know enough about hub changes to narrow it down further, but I would suspect it is after 1969.

And all they have is one of the thousands of bags that was filled and sealed before the release date. I don't know if they have ANY real evidence that that particular bag was released on the first day. (Considering how many if not most banks were rationing them at first it is doubtful someone would get a full bag on that first day) It could have been released months later.

Maybe he sold the CC part already.

Something a lot of people don't understand, you aren't paying them for a "grade", you are paying them for an "opinion". They believe the color was questionable. They gave their opinion. You got exactly what you paid for. The same thing they always were, whatever someone is willing to pay for them.

Well it is clearly a wheat cent so the first two digits of the date HAVE to be 19 because the wheat cents was made form 1909 to 1958.

In high school chemistry they wouldn't permit the chemistry teacher to requisition chemicals based on need, only by alphabetical order, so for qualitative analysis of metals we couldn't use the alternate safe reagent, we HAD to let 10th graders play with potassium cyanide. It was really silly, the teacher had to submit his request for chemicals listed in alphbetical order. They didn't tell him how much they had to spend on the chemicals and then they just started filling it from the top of the list until the money ran out. You know how hard it must be to plan a chemistry curriculum with no chemicals with names starting after D.

There were also a LOT of genuine 3 dollar bills as well before 1862. At one point the Federal government even planned to print $3's. There was a currency design that was to be used for 1's, 2's, and 3's that had all three numbers printed on it and an open "spirograph" was printed over them with the proper denomination in the opening. They were issued for the 1 and 2 but not the 3.