Here's your spaghetti; which model do you feel confident in? :D [img]
That was my take on it also.
I thought for sure you had you a top-pop(at least for NGC.)
These coins were struck with deteriorated dies and are were very common in the '80s.
There is nothing under the sun that isn't natural. Put a coin and the oven and the results are 100% natural.
It may just be the photo and the shadowing, but this is what it looks like to me, which is clearly TRUST backwards. [IMG]
Same with me. Even after getting home and being able to enlarge the photos, it still looks like the top part of a backward S above the R and the...
I can't get the images to enlarge on the computer I'm currently on, but they did look backwards to me. To me it looks like the top of a backwards...
Honestly there is nothing in the minting process that would do that. It may not have been intentional, but at some point that Lincoln was pressed...
Are the letters raised or incuse(indented)? From the images it looks as if they are incuse, which means that someone merely impressed another...
Wasn't it illegal to melt silver coins at one time, and weren't those who hoarded silver back in the day ridiculed?
Here's another useful link: http://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/Morgan/Grades
I was only off by a few days.
Polishing lines. Very common. You'll find them on almost every coin.
The die looks fairly deteriorated and it's misaligned, but nothing major. What is it that you are seeing?
No one knows yet, but maybe soon. http://www.thecentproject.com/sort1982.php
NGC said 67 is my guess.
Vg10.
66. The mark smack in the middle of the reverse keeps it from getting higher.
I think that is a great book and I would highly recommend it, but I didn't mention it since the OP was looking for books on varieties.
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