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I was having a chat with a friend, and he said there was a new nickel registry set. I put my coins in and for the moment I have the number one spot. Not for long I am sure, but it looks cool seeing it. Set Details | NGC Registry | NGC (ngccoin.com)

Hi all, I just want to say that even though we see all the strange stuff and get the bad rep from a lot of others the regular members on this site are all good people and would do almost anything to help a fellow collector. I have many of those people that send me PM asking if I would like this or that and I always say thanks for the offer, but I will try it some other way. Just so you all know Denver mint coins are harder to find in the Northeast. Most of you know MR Bill 347 He is one of the good guys, he saw the 2009 D that I found to fill the last hole in my cent folder. Well, he hated that it was the only tarnished coin in the book. So, before I could say no thanks Bill, he sent me out the whole 2009 D BU set. Thanks Bill it looks great.

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.

Don't know if it's real but the cover made me laugh.

Hi all, If you're a fan of the early commemorative coin series please check out my book chapters on the NNP. Here is the link to my page: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/booksbyauthor/551821

1834 Classic Head quarter eagle with Extremely Fine to About Uncirculated details that I would call "whizzed" (possibly just vigorously "cleaned" with a pencil eraser) but which NGC classified as having an "altered surface" and wouldn't encapsulate. It's still a well-detailed example of this scarcer type: Remember, gold is "wild", so the next post may be of any gold coin or any coin dated 1834.

First coin in a VERY long time. Some very nice NGC photos to go along with it (nice bonus). I hope all are well.

Yes, you may consider the 1995-W Proof Silver Eagle a "key" date in that series, just as you may consider the 1909-S V.D.B. cent a "key" date in the Lincoln cent series. However, a modern coin issued as a collector's item with 30,125 reported sold and nearly all likely still in existence in high grades can't be considered a truly "rare" coin. Their high price results from high demand that is largely driven by market hype. There are a number of much lower mintage and scarcer U.S. coins that sell for a fraction of what these Silver Eagles cost, for example, post-1862 three cent silver pieces and certain gold dollars and classic commemoratives. The challenge is to find them.

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...

Thank you JP! I wasn’t expecting any kudos, but much appreciated., in fact, you made my week! I know that collectors are great people. Someday, I hope to qualify. Thank you for your comments, and the coins look great in your album!

1877-CC 10C VF20

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.

Darker than I would like, but in an ANA ANACS style holder.

1843-O eagle, ex-John Jay Pittman collection, conservatively graded "Very Fine to Extremely Fine" by its cataloguer David W. Akers, currently at NGC: Edit 4/4/24: NGC graded this coin "AU Details, Cleaned".

1871-S Liberty Seated half dime, PCGS graded XF 45, from the "Benson Collection" sold by Goldberg auctioneers in 2002:

1887 proof Indian cent, ANACS graded Proof Details, Recolored (net Proof 60) in old small holder. The color is a bit "off", especially on the reverse, but the coin is still sharp and attractive:

Screenshot posted. Saved for posterity.

1888 Liberty Seated dime in a green label PCGS holder giving a grade of "AU 53", while the PCGS database says, "PR 53". The coin has proof characteristics notwithstanding the weakness on Liberty's head, and the die variety exists in both proof (F-101) and circulation strike (F-101a) format. I bought it out of a dealer's "cheap slab" box for all of $45 in 1994.

No. Every coin they work on is a different process. Many chemicals can come into play. They know the proper way and the order the chemicals should be used to leave the surfaces of the coin stable. A simple dip or an acetone bath is not what many coins need. Some coins require a really long bath in a solution to slowly remove a problem without damaging the coin.

The die scratch from the rim above the "D" in "UNITED" is a diagnostic for authenticating the "Red Book" variety 1972 doubled die cent, as the OP apparently knew.

1900 Barber quarter, NGC graded PF 64, in an older holder, apparently before NGC awarded "cameo" designations: Photos courtesy of Stacks Bowers Galleries.

1925 Lexington/Concord commemorative half dollar, NGC graded MS 64:

“When ah sez whoa, ah mean WHOA!”

1952-S Washington-Carver commemorative half dollar (mintage 8,006), NGC graded MS 66 notwithstanding heavy abrasions on Carver's face:

CAC is still beaning coins.

1936-S BayBridge Mintage 71,369

1923-D Mintage 6,811,000

He IS the seller.