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@Copperindian said:
Is this one even a “key” date?

Arguably yes. Any collector of Lincoln cents has to have this coin. I believe many even started with one of these. It was the first coin in the old Whitman albums.

By the above definition, essentially every early Lincoln wheat cent is one too.

I've never been to a show there. But confirm that they will have adequate air conditioning - I went through Oklahoma City in August one time, and it was hot.

@jmlanzaf said:

@VanHalen said:
Just to add to the topic, not trying to be contrarian or negative.

Many of us remember Alan Hagar and Accugrade. Alan could grade there was no question about that. He could consistently overgrade MS coins by a point. You have to be a good grader to be able to do that. And he was often liberal on letting problem coins slip into problem-free holders.

I view CACG as the inverse of Accugrade. If you know how to grade you can consistently undergrade. And if you're conservative on problems then nothing that might be a problem gets into a problem-free holder.

The 100 or so investors who ponied up a lot of money to buy in to CACG are their main supporters. I felt this way for a long time and still believe that PCGS is #1 and will remain #1 for the foreseeable future.

If PCGS wanted to go Ultra conservative and kick out any potential problem coin they could do so. I view JA and Doug Winter as the gods of gold. I still believe that but also believe that CACG is on the wrong track to success. At least what I would consider my definition of success among TPG.

We use a standardized multiple- choice exam for the Final for one of the classes I teach. I tell the students that I give them an A for the semester if they get 100% of them wrong. At first, some of them are excited until i point out that the only way to get them all wrong is to know what the right answer is.

There could be one completely implausible, obviously incorrect choice for each question. Under those circumstances it would be easy to get 100% of the answers wrong without knowing any of the correct answers.

Wish I could buy u.s. 1806 large cents for what numinista says this farthing is worth. Lol
Not to take away from the suggestion @Orlena offered as the site offers a ton of info on this series.
Jim

It was made that way.

@jom said:

jom

Fantastic. I want one.

@GuzziSport said:
My latest. Great date for gold IMO, and quite a nice coin and overall package. Normally, I probably would not have bought this, were it not a Sunday night auction and after a few glasses of Cab.
Nice coin regardless, I think anyway.

Superb. Well done.

Let's suppose that our hosts and everyone who has posted on this thread are wrong, an this is indeed a genuine mint error.

What on earth does the owner think it would be worth as a genuine error?

@MFeld said:

@IkesT said:
Don't blow on it with your mouth; you'll get spit on the coin.

Use a blower like this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C3PJQXM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Or canned air?

I'm a photo hobbyist. If you do not use canned air properly the propellent (the puff of haze) will go all over the coin. You must clear the mist out. The device above will work fine.