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I've never seen a mint box that there was any reason to suspect had been
tampered with. There was never much of a premium for most of these un-
opened until recently so it may start happening. Most of these boxes would
be difficult to reseal and the older ones often have post marks on each side
making it even harder.

Yes, for the record, 1776 was the year a dramatic document was signed. The first shots of the war had been fired a few years before, and hostilities would continue for another several years.

@PeacockSteve said:

@Creg said:
Steve, you don’t know what you like—figure that out. The error thing is gonna get old for you. You’d get far more respect if you posted photos of adding cents to a Whitman folder. Coin grubbing—it’s not a good look. No one who continues to search for errors stays long.

Thank you for your advice. I haven’t been on here very long and I trying to learn. So coin grubbing is what I’m doing?

Yes, Your looking though the same jar of pocket change over and over again. Please take those coins and spend them on real errors from a coin show or something. For the sake of this forum please stop posting 'errors'.
P.S. It just makes you look like you have no knowledge whatsoever about coins.

@MFeld said:

@Desert Moon said:

@pcgscacgold said:

@PeakRarities said:

@TurtleCat said:

@pcgscacgold said:
Hopefully the day comes when the chip in the slab can be turned off during shipping. Anyone with a phone and the PCGS App can scan the box and know exactly what is inside. I am thankful to collect old slabs that do not have that technology.

I think it more likely that people will start employed faraday style cages around the slabs so the NFC signals won’t go through. Like what is used in wallets and such these days.

Aluminum foil is pretty abundant and easy to work with, , I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of dealers who use foil nowadays was up to 40-50% already, and growing.

I have not had a single dealer wrap a coin so far. I have had a few slabs come from collectors with the foil wrap. I have not had a wrapped coin from an auction house to date.

I receive slabs with foil wrap when there is a chip in the slab. I ship slabs with foil wrap when there is a chip in the slab. So far, that is only some PCGS slabs. But > @jmlanzaf said:

@PeakRarities said:

@jmlanzaf said:

@pcgscacgold said:

@PeakRarities said:

@TurtleCat said:

@pcgscacgold said:
Hopefully the day comes when the chip in the slab can be turned off during shipping. Anyone with a phone and the PCGS App can scan the box and know exactly what is inside. I am thankful to collect old slabs that do not have that technology.

I think it more likely that people will start employed faraday style cages around the slabs so the NFC signals won’t go through. Like what is used in wallets and such these days.

Aluminum foil is pretty abundant and easy to work with, , I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of dealers who use foil nowadays was up to 40-50% already, and growing.

I have not had a single dealer wrap a coin so far. I have had a few slabs come from collectors with the foil wrap. I have not had a wrapped coin from an auction house to date.

Same here.

Do you even buy slabbed coins? Use case (OGH =/= RFID ) and Ri$k profile has an effect, see my comment above for context.

I almost exclusively buy slabbed coins when I don't have them in hand. Mostly auction houses.

How can we know that since you Never, Ever, post images of coins??????????????

Even if he did post images, we wouldn’t know that.

And if you knew that, I wouldn't have had to say that.

I may have to spend the weekend posting pictures of every slab I have, just so I can see how many people complain that I'm posting too many pictures of coins.

@RedRocket said:

@Morgan White said:

@PeakRarities said:

@TurtleCat said:

@pcgscacgold said:
Hopefully the day comes when the chip in the slab can be turned off during shipping. Anyone with a phone and the PCGS App can scan the box and know exactly what is inside. I am thankful to collect old slabs that do not have that technology.

I think it more likely that people will start employed faraday style cages around the slabs so the NFC signals won’t go through. Like what is used in wallets and such these days.

Aluminum foil is pretty abundant and easy to work with, , I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage of dealers who use foil nowadays was up to 40-50% already, and growing.

Yep I got a gen 4.4 slab today in foil, lol. Not kidding.

Red believes White.

Checkmate

@PeacockSteve said:

@mr1931S said:
Looks like machine doubling (or strike doubling) to me. Nice close-up pictures though so OP can't be accused of not providing good enough pictures.

Maybe Mr. Weinberg would be willing to give an opinion on whether the OP's Dollar would be considered an error among collectors who enjoy looking for errors?

It looks like a double die error except it’s on the edge of the coin. Is it just me or can anyone else see how the letters look doubled? Not 1955 C doubled or 1969S doubled. Several letters look double the size they are supposed to be. On some of the letters, I see where it was struck a 2nd time but slightly offset. If I’m wrong then I’m wrong, that’s fine.

If you had googled what I told you, you'd see that you have what is known as "strike doubling", "machine doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". It is NOT a doubled die. I told you what it was and what to Google. We can't help people who don't want to be helped.

@PeacockSteve said:

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

@jmlanzaf said:
It looks like "strike doubling" or "die deterioration doubling". Google those terms and you'll see what I mean. Very common, no added value.

I googled it and this is what it pulled up.

None of what appeared in your Google search results is the same as “strike doubling” or “die deterioration doubling”, both of which don’t usually result in any extra value.