I have an NGC AU53 1898 50 Cents that I purchased 16 years ago. Its only an EF45, which I suspected it was anyway before I bought it. I removed it from its slab the same day I got it in hand. Its a stupid grade designation anyway. For this particular 1891 the T in GRATIA is re-punched with the 1871 ...

I actually truly wonder who is authenticating/grading these coins. https://www.ebay.com/itm/363830682388?hash=item54b5ffa314:g:0b8AAOSw7ltidopd Are they immigrant hires that get a one week crash course in grading and get paid poorly to maximize profit? Not only is is not an AU53 but look at coin car...

BTW, I did neglect to consider one thing which is something I have always wondered about flagrantly questionable TPG coins. Could the original coins have been transposed for a lower grade coin? I do not doubt for a second that the holders can be expertly breached. Therefore, for a coin such as this ...

Bill if you are able to save the obverse image to your desktop (or wherever) and the zoom into the forehead/crown/hair line area you will see there is no overlap. The tarnishing makes it appear there is an overlap unless you magnify. I think we've played around with this one enough. I don't own this...

Sorry, I proposed a confusing question. I was referring to the grade only, however it is definitely an Obverse 4 as I have an actual Obverse 3 to compare against where the projection of the crown is obvious and the chin is slightly different. As for grade, IMO overall its a F15. I'll await a few mor...

Anyone care to take a shot at this one? Appears to be Obverse 4.

Fellow collectors, I have a debate topic. Did the publishers of Canadian coin albums make a major error by including the Province of Canada coins in the Dominion of Canada coin collective? Why did they not designate the 1858 coins (and 1859 for the cents) as a Province of Canada issue? Sure it would...

Thank you for that extremely useful info gentlemen. After reading the very interesting and educational info in the link you provided Bill there is no doubt this is mechanical doubling. As to the value the coin, it is only in Fine condition, however for me its value lies in the exemplification of thi...

Here 's a couple more for fun.

Ok thanks for the info. Please see attached images of selected legend letters. If anyone would like to see a few other letters I will accommodate. As I stated previously, the majority of the letters show the DD effect.

I was going through a small lot of just over 50 x 1955 quarters to see if I had any of the double die reverse variety. Unfortunately, I did not. As I was doing this I checked for any obverse or reverse die breaks. In the lot I did discover one quarter with a die break, however the most interesting f...

Oh forget to add. I wonder what the final winning bid amount will be? LOL

Thank you all for your input. Obviously my question was rhetorical. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going insane.
BTW, Happy New Year. Hopefully things will get better for the world. RD

The only one I have is an E/E. Suspect both are equally common and of equal value then. I would consider it a variety. RD