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So my, get this, Google account was suspended. From precisely 12:23:23 - 0500 on Sunday, April 21. Reason: "Someone may have used your Account to send out a lot of junk messages or done something else that violates the Google Service Agreement." "Click button for your detailed security check for further instructions." So, I did. Up popped up an advertisement from topantivirustech.com with an excruciatingly detailed narrative on five or six of the top anti-viral apps, each with their own overall rating on a 1 to 10 scale, with already discounted prices ranging from US$ 29.00 to a mind-boggling US$ 199.99 (save 29%) all presumably annual subscriptions. (Each was equipped with a button to access their website, apparently all based abroad, which I declined to click on.) There was another button to click, "Learn more." So I did (after backing out of the "detailed security check,") and again up popped up the same ad. There was yet another button to click, "sign out," and up popped up that same, by now famliar, ad... and the nature of this anti-spam scam became apparent to me. I confess to you, gentle reader, that I have committed an offense by omission! Meaning, I have withheld a critical fact: IT WAS I WHO WAS THE CULPRIT!!! When the volume of spam I get balloons, I stop deleting, and time allowing, FORWARD this never-ending stream of Basura (garbage) Back to Sender. To innocent overtures like, "Hi, how are you?" I reply, "To whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?" If this quickly descends into inappropriate sexual content, forgive me, I respond with vicious vitriol peppered with salty language. Long story short: I give 'em a taste of their own medicine and when I receive a clueless response replete with phrases featuring flat affect, I issue my ultimatum: Kindly furnish me with your full legal name, DOB, SSN, street address, phone numbers, etc. There are members on this Forum who have counseled us from time-to-time on the correct tack to take on such matters. Problem is, I delete and delete until I summon up the nerve to take matters into my own hands. Anyone remember Kurt's classic reply to my comment urging him to "Be Nice" (per Guideline rules)? Briefly, he said, in substance: "You do you; I'll do me." 🤣 TAKEAWAY: GOOGLE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO GRANT SCAMSTERS (my word) UNFETTERED ACCESS TO YOUR ACCOUNT, AND IF YOU ATTEMPT TO ADDRESS THE HARRASSMENT INDEPENDENTLY, YOU WILL SUFFER A LAPSE IN SERVICE UNDER THE GUISE OF AN APPARENT VIOLATION OF THEIR SERVICE AGREEMENT. Clever, huh? Pretty impressive racket. If you have experienced a similar ominous, inexplicable interruption of service due to an apparent "agreement violation," from Google, or anyone else, feel free to share it here. For those who may be curious as to what "may" happen should an insane thought like clearing your cache and cookies enters your mind, tarry not. I will tell you: you will [virtually] cease to exist, analogous to repeating all your years of formal schooling. It's A Hard Knock Life. (Posted at the sole discretion of NGC Moderation which may delete for cause, or no reason at all. I am okay with that.)

1877-CC 10C VF20

Hello Everyone !! I found this 1972 penny from Bank of america coin roll there is a Scratch on Lincoln forehead is it worth to grade? Tia...

@Youngmoola I think it's time for me to make your posts "go grey". This is goodbye. Godspeed, my damage collecting friend.

A guy with 3 posts endorsing the validity of a "find" by a guy with 1 post ? I'd await the entry of Sandon & Friends before I started counting my riches....

1890-S Liberty Seated dime, NGC graded AU 58:

This forum is not your personal venue for hawking your coins. The marketplace forum is the place to sell coins. Please stop spamming this forum. And, while I have your attention, intruding on other posters threads, trying to sell them coins for which they are not looking, is in poor taste.

Mystery solved. Limited edition medals each numbered 1-200.

"Conservation" will not be noted on the label. It will show in the conservator's in-house records, and the owner's invoice. However, if a coin is "Composted" this might be on the label -- along with some old coffee grounds and a bit of tomato skin.

No.

You are apparently referring to a 1982 or later copper-plated zinc cent whose copper plating had been contaminated with zinc, resulting in the plating having a yellowish color referred to as "brassy plating". See https://www.error-ref.com/?s=brass+plating for a full explanation. I don't find this slight color difference of much interest either, but there are apparently enough collectors who do to make grading services consider it worthy of attribution.

(System Of A) DOWN with "da MAN"!

Hey Captain Murder, where is Sargent Slaughter?

...u mite make it into a footnote in that text book yet....

...careful u dont want to throw out ur typing shoulder while patting urself on the back....

My ignore list is really becoming the who's who of fools. Now if the rest of you would stop quoting them... I would never have to see any of it. Help a brother out!

If you want to sell the coin it's worth it to get it graded purely for the authentication. It's ruff so if it were me I would slab.it just to keep it from any more damage and put that in a safe place for my collection. AWESOME FIND IF IT REAL.

When discussing British coins, modern has an obvious line of demarcation - decimalisation.

I picked up a 09 to 58 cent folder a while back, so I am having fun trying to fill holes. Nothing crazy just roll coins that look worthy. The hard-to-find ones always get a spot. This one showed up today not as hard a find as the 1913 but still 104 years old.

Looks like another user name change may be in order.... let's consider the possibilities... I am going to refer to you [privately, of course] as MartyrTm, a play on martyrdom. I am afraid redrum just doesn't cut it and 69 is too reminiscent of tekashi69. Tm? No, not ™️, but Thulium, a silvery-white rare earth metal, atomic # 69 on the Periodic Table, or Tm for short. Anyway, short of yelling, "Rewrite!" you can always remake or reinvent yourself with a new name and a fresh approach. I did it and, as I am fond of reminding my many detractors... STILL HERE, STILL STANDING, STILL STRONG! To my brethren on the Forum: I have been accused of reckless rumination, but indiscriminate urination? NEVER! To the member who was kind enough to write to me and say I was "a great man," I guess you understand me better than most. 🐓

Certainly beyond your capabilities.

I overlooked the above. No one knew about the pattern Pratt HE until my research was published in RAC 1905-1908. Differences are subtle, except for the medal-turn die orientation.

...should have bought a couple of attack dogs....

..."almost immeasurably beyond"...voyager 1 did u copy that?....

I don't know why the coin couldn't be entered into your coin list and used in a custom set, but if you are trying to add it to a competitive set, coins certified as mint errors aren't eligible for competitive sets. The Administrator explained this policy as follows: Coins designated/labeled as "MINT ERROR" are not eligible for competitive NGC Registry sets. When our graders (or PCGS graders) designate something as a MINT ERROR, as a rule, these are ineligible for the NGC Registry. Each piece is rare in its own way. Mint errors are unique, and prices can vary greatly and are highly subjective. Therefore, to allow them in the NGC Competitive Registry would be unfair practice. The exception to this rule is the US Presidential Dollar - Edge Lettering error NGC Registry set; these coins are more common and are similar; as such, we can assign them a competitive registry score and require others to obtain similar coins to fill their registry set. Therefore, competitive sets for these PEL error coins are the exception to the rule. You may enter your ME coins into Custom NGC Registry sets, if you wish.

I'm not really good at looking into how many have been graded. This is another problem coin. 1877-CC DDR. It's in an old PCI slab and turned ugly in the holder.

It is really a shame this one had such a rough life. Not very common. NGC has only graded 9 total.

No such critter as a pattern or proposal. The 3 volumes deal only with circulating US coinage, plus a side-trip about the PPIE souvenir coins and gold $1, $3 and MCMVII $20s used as political treats. The quantity and quality of information is almost immeasurably beyond anything previously written on the subject.

67 RB

That looks like split plate doubling around the top of the letters.

Hello and welcome! The instructions for posting are clear and easily understandable. Please provide clear, fully cropped photos of both sides of the coin along with a question. I cannot give an opinion based upon the photos provided.

It's a nickel.

Opinion: spend.

Please post cropped photos of each side of a coin about which you have questions. Based on the current photos, the coin has a reverse die crack and some light strike doubling (a.k.a. machine or mechanical doubling) on the date, not die doubling. These characteristics may be interesting, but they are neither rare nor give the coin significant value. I recommend that you review the following articles: Double Dies vs. Machine Doubling | NGC (ngccoin.com), https://www.doubleddie.com/144801.html and links therein on mechanical doubling (a.k.a. strike or machine doubling), die deterioration doubling, and abrasion doubling.

1957-D MS66RB

You can continue to play devil's advocate or "defender of the downtrodden" all you like, but, rest assured, the majority of the members of this forum strongly disapprove of this guy's tactics, especially since he's been repeatedly called out, and continues to do it. It isn't "harmless conduct." It's the forum equivalent of spam phone calls and junk mail, and we don't like it.

I purchased this 1903 Indian cent at the ANA convention in August 2003. It is housed in an old, small size ANACS holder conservatively graded MS 63 RB with a full strike and nearly full mint "red". It cost me all of $50.

Sure would be nice to find it! Interesting - I might have to pick up that book as well.