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GTG - 1952-D 25c - MS64 FS-101.
FlyingAl
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The box of twenty coins you are grading says mint error and variety services were requested for each coin. Good luck!
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Unfortunately, I was just fired from my grading job for gross incompetence. I'll be drowning my sorrows.
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I'll go 65+
65 ddo
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at least a 66.
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MS-65 Large D
Mike
My Indians
Danco Set
65.
I would call it MS64, I guess it is a doubled die but I didn't look it up as I am not much of a variety guy.
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Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Clean one, with an attractive look. I would grade 65 as there are just enough marks and ticks (especially on the cheekbone, face and neck) for me to want to think otherwise.
DDO is nice, but not dramatic enough to make my socks go up and down. To each their own on that though.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
MS66, chance for MS67
My guess is MS65+
MS 65.
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A nice coin but the hits on Washington’s jaw, one in the hair and significant hit on the eagle’s left leg have me a 64.
MS66 FS-101
MS 66 FS - 102 ?
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Well it does look cleaned or at least dipped. Are you using fluorescent for this image lot of rainbow colored specs in the finite details.
Thats a handsome quarter!
Nice!
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Drum roll Alex.........................
Mike
My Indians
Danco Set
No one has gotten close yet.
Coin Photographer.
Damn, Oakster on the game! Where is that "Thumb's Up icon" ??
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
MS66+
PR67
Having fun while switching things up and focusing on a next level PCGS slabbed 1950+ type set, while still looking for great examples for the 7070.
UNC details - machine damage fs-101
Let me put it this way - several here are close to the correct grade. No one has been able to combine the correct grade and variety, so to me no one here is close.
Coin Photographer.
To be fair, this is a GTG. While a few have brought it up, there was never a mention of "Guess the Variety."
I did mention in the OP that variety services were requested.
If you’re a grader, you have to get both right if variety services are requested.
Coin Photographer.
With that said I'll change my guess to
MS-65 Large D FS-501
I'm not sure what that V mark is on the eagles left leg is
Mike
My Indians
Danco Set
This coin is a MS64 DDO FS-101.
Gotta watch those varieties guys.
Coin Photographer.
Does the grader also attribute? I would think attribution is done separately from grading.
I beg to differ. I think @coinbuf got it spot on a half a dozen guesses in. He even called out the DDO (kind of), but not the FS number.
I beg to differ again. Not exactly true. Regular graders do not verify Overton #'s on CBH's, this is for sure last I heard. I would imagine the same is true for the FS numbers, some of which are a little obscure IMO.
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
As I understand it, most graders are expected to be able to identify most varieties. I'm not certain if they'd have to be able to identify exact numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.
CBHs would be a little different than DDO like this one, since I understand they're also divided into die state.
Todd, I respect your opinion, but I think we'll have to agree to disagree. The goal for this one was to see if the forum could identify accurately which DDO this was, so I was hoping for responses to include some actual attributions. I believe only one correct attribution was made.
My post was made in a goal to let forumites see if they are able to identify varieties like the many grading services are asked to do daily (and to a lot of variety collectors, is vastly more important than the grade itself). It doesn't seem like that goal caught on, which was unfortunate.
Coin Photographer.
I suspect that I may be representative of many collectors when it comes to my interest in varieties.
To a certain extent I like varieties. The major varieties that are readily and easily noticeable and recognizable; and that are well publicized to the general hobby are the ones I have an interest in.
For those varieties that are less well know, that are less easily noticeable and that require the devotion of substantial time and effort to become knowledgeable on (i.e. the 20+ or so varieties of the 1966 SMS DDO half dollar) simply do not draw and keep my attention.
I admire and respect collectors who chose to jump deeply into variety collecting, with a goal of acquiring examples of every know variety of a given coin series; and/or going further and devoting time and effort to look for and find examples of other varieties that have not been previously discovered. The drive, focus and single minded determination shown by such collectors is simply not built into my collecting DNA.
Which ones are those?
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Oakstar.
Some major varieties (in the 20th Century coins I collect) include, but are not limited to:
the 1964 AH Proof Half,
the 1956 Type 1 Proof Half,
the 1961 DDR Proof Half (the Big One),
the 1955 DDO cent,
the 1969 S DDO cent,
the 1972 DDO cent,
the 1939 DDR nickel,
the 1943/2 nickel,
the 1945 DDR nickel,
the proof cent (1990), proof nickel (1971), proof dimes (1968, 1970, 1975 and 1983) with missing mint marks,
the 1916 DDO nickel,
the 1918/7 nickel,
the 1917 DDO cent,
the 1936 DDO cent,
the 1958 DDO cent, and
the 1942/1 dime.
@SanctionII -
I agree with your list. Varieties we can see without using a scanning electron microscope!
I have a few on your list. I would add; the 84 DDO cent, 37-D 3 leg Buff, 83 DDR cent, 95 DDO cent, 63 DDR Dime and 82 No P Dime.
Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )