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It is damage. It is not always necessary to know how it happened for unless you were there at the time, you may never know. What is important is to know how coins are minted and there is no way that could happen when the coin was struck so the only alternative is that it is damage.

That caveat has always been there as far as I know.

Oliver Baylis Overstreet ran a general store in Beaumont, MS from 1913 until his death in 1929. His store passed to his heirs, and was run by his wife, Laura, until 1940. When I bought this token, it came with a note to a former owner that was written by LLoyd Wagaman, in which he attributed the token to Beaumont. Mr Wagaman was a founder of the Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio Token and Medal Society, and wrote the book on Indiana tokens, He was also an attributer/identifier of tokens, and designed and created many series of elongated cents. More on Mr. Wagaman at a later date.

Just for fun.

It's confusing. 1954 was the last year for production for circulation with an S mintmark. The mint was shut down for quarter production from 1955 to 1964. From 1965 to 67 San Francisco struck quarters for circulation but used no mintmark. There is no way to identify which quarters for these years were S mint coins. From 1968 to 2011 has made no circulation quality clad quarters. Since 2012 San Francisco has struck about 1 to 1.5 million circulation quality clad quarters for each ATB design. these were made for sale to collector in rolls and bags and were not released into circulation. In 1975 the S mint struck circulation quality 40% silver Bicentennial coins. That is all the circulation quality coins. From 1968 to date San Francisco has struck clad proof quarters In 1975 they struck 40% silver Bicentennial Proof quarters. Since 1992 they have struck 90% silver proof quarters.

Me either. Marilyn - welcome to the forum! This is a great forum and members are more than willing to help. It may be a good idea to download the PCGS Cert app on your phone. This will let you scan the barcode on the label and make sure it checks out. It will also pull up additional information for you. Both NGC and PCGS have smartphone apps for this purpose.

Hello. It's great to meet you. Very nice double eagles. Got me to drooling.

Another great addition.

Absolutely not

Everyone understands your frustration, however this is how the grading system works. In fact that is how most things in life work if you want the better table you slip the hostess a $20, you want to get to work and home faster you pay for access to the express lane. You will get your items back when your turn in line comes up, you may not like the answer but those are just the facts. If you want fast you pay for it, otherwise you wait it out, given your displeasure already I cannot wait to see your post if the grades you receive are not up to your expectations.

That's the main thing that ties me to numismatics, that and understanding the world. My degree is history, specifically ancient, and I'm somewhat multilingual, so this naturally led me to ancient/world numismatics. To hold in my hand a coin of Caracalla, or Byzantium, or Connecticut, or Vichy...it's the only way my library can also include a museum.

Just damaged bury it, normally I say spend it but then someone else will be asking about it next week.

Tis true, 144 tons or just over 36,000 board feet (12' x 12' x 1'). Dang, forgot I had this picture. I need to go through my stuff and rediscover some things. Found a few more pics online.

Nope, because if it has wear it isn't MS even if the TPG called it that.

Thin film grease strikethroughs

As late as the 1940s collectors could still purchase 1921 Peace Dollars at face value from the Treasury in person or by mail. This was just one of many issues going back to the 1920s still in the Cash Room. Buyers were limited to two of each coin so as to show heads and tails in their "cabinets." This same assumption was behind the double Uncirculated Sets sold starting with the coins of 1947 and lasting through 1958. The older coins ceased to be available once these sets were offered beginning early 1948.

Back on track.

MS66+ (w/green bean)

Have you never seen wear on a lower-tier Mint State coin? What we have now is akin to varying stages of pregnancy from conception to full term. Put another way, what's causing all the wear visible enough to make a distinction between MS-60.... MS-63.... MS-65.... MS-67 on up to MS-7O if none are supposed to exhibit it. On a related tack, why are PROOF coins being graded at all? Understand, I am not directing these pointed queries to you personally. I am merely trying to understand a phenomenon that's been going on for a very long time with the mutual assent of all parties.

But are they high enough? By spend more on having them graded that then end up being worth. You spend $35 have a coin graded that is now worth $50 after grading you end up selling it for a $15 profit. But if you had just sold it raw you would have gotten $40. So in effect you lost $25. Bad assumption, most proof commemoratives aren't worth issue price except some of the early ones that were sold when the metal prices were a lot lower. And I am going to let this go at this point because we are trying to give advice to an OP from seven years ago, and who has not been here for 6 years.

And yet, you indicated that you liked his post.🤭

Great looking '16 !

Maybe, but Weitzman's didn't for nearly 20 years until he decided to sell it. And if he kept it secret that long, he probably could have continued to do so.

Not long. Was looking for one item on one side of coin. Flashlight, magnifying glass, fast eyes.............

I'll answer that with a question. If you submit a coin to a TPG which has no trace of wear, and the grader has no knowledge of the previous history of the coin before he pulled it out of the flip, does he call it MS or something else? The deciding factor is whether or not the coin has wear, not where the coin comes from, because THEY DON'T KNOW.. After all the graders didn't personally see all of those millions of MS Morgan dollars they have graded come out of mint sewn bags.

I believe the DDO is a proof only issue, and the small date comes as both proofs or business strikes

My wife took one look at this, and said: "Il est tres beau!", or It is very beautiful! And that, it is.

Correct

If it were actually a Satin finiish it would be out of a mint set, would be made of 95% copper and would weigh 3.11 grams. I don't think so.

Uncirculated = no visible wear, not untouched by human hands

I don't engage in this type of activity but if I did I would screen first. You're talking 700 rolls, each of which can be pushed out with one finger and screened quickly for their tell-tale inner copper ring. The silver quarter has a distinct brighter color and no distinct copper edge. Realistically, finding any silver quarters is the easy part. Re-rolling them (should you forgo a coin counting machine) is the labor-intensive, time-consuming part.

They won't grade a plated coin.

Modwriter, this is not to single you out, or anyone else for that matter, but this matter, in pertinent part as segregated above, was the subject of my recent diatribe elsewhere. Question: How can one expect to find Mint State coins -- which by their very definition are Uncirculated, in change, which implies in Circulation?

BuffaloHead. I have never seen such brilliant color on a nickel! Great find!

RE: "very seasoned collector". What spices and herbs are used to "season a collector?" Do they have to be brined or marinated before seasoning and roasting? Are there different seasonings for different collectors -- maybe saffron for gold collectors, or tyme and rosemary for silver coin enthusiasts? Not really important, just curious about what to look for at the concession places during the next big coin show....