James_OldeTowne

I have collected multiple sets of these. Considering these appear to be high-resolution scans, my interpretation is that they are average to somwhat-above-average UNC pieces.

It is an ordinary cent with no special properties.

Definitely cleaned. NGC got them right.

For items like GSA dollars and the like, the original packaging adds significant value. And I have personally sold just the ads for GSA dollars for a fair amount of money. So for sure, sometimes the superfluous stuff adds value!

Are Ott lamps still made? I have two that I've owned for 30 years and they are both still going strong.

The OP photo is not useful for ascertaining anything.

I agree - the rim has been worn down.

Damage.

Nice RPD action going on there!

It's an ordinary circulation strike cent, with no especially notable characteristics.

Gold coins intended for circulation do, indeed, frequently show traces of wear. When a commem shows wear, however, one usually attributes that to casual handling, which has the same effect of imparting friction, abrasions, and other characteristics of circulation.

Admittedly this would have been even funnier had the selected language been Middle English, or something like that....

The photos are inadequate to give a good, accurate answer, but how about an educated guess? They don't look blatantly fake, and that is augmented by the fact that they appear lightly circulated (AU-ish).

The slab and coin look legit from those photos.

Taking the quality of the photo into account, that is not a 1900-O/CC.

I feel it most likely is not a doubled-die.

Fake. These can be randomly added to rolls and the rolls sold at full value to unsuspecting collectors.

I was able to blow up the photo and it looks to me like the first "C" is nicely visible.

Those are pretty decent photos of a perfectly normal 1942 dime, with no especially valuable characteristics.

Agreed - die erosion. I guess in the 1970s, the mint ran those dies to exhaustion to save money.

I will help where possible. Incidentally, I thought I'd been banned ATS, but apparently not. I was just now able to login and post a reply to a thread. The difference is, I have something like 30 posts there, and some 15-thousand here. Guess which forum I like better?!

I think this turned out to be a pretty informative thread, but nobody really replied to your quote above. Coins have been counterfeited for thousands of years, and it isn't a surprise at all that a hundred year old gold coin would be counterfeited.

I don't agree with one of your comments about it not being very popular. On the contrary, the 1900-O/CC is highly prized! If memory serves, there are 6 VAMs (and a couple of die-states) with varying degrees of preference. My personal favorite is VAM-12, because it has the clearest and most visible remnant of "CC" (at least in my opinion) of all the VAMs. I have considered putting together a set of all the VAMs for 1900-O/CC, because it would be doable with prices only at a hundred or so for circulated, up to a grand for a high-grade example.

It looks like a legitimate RPM to me.

It is just a normal quarter.