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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2633715, member: 19250&quot;][ATTACH=full]579954[/ATTACH] You know most members&nbsp; here&nbsp; post and replies in this forum or other forums are based&nbsp; on&nbsp; opinions . Since my opinion&nbsp; is already&nbsp; known , I&#039;m&nbsp; going&nbsp; to&nbsp; stick to my guns on this one. You see that SLQ over there &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; my avatar&nbsp; that&#039;s&nbsp; the coin that sparked my interest&nbsp; in&nbsp; MPD&#039;s. It is an 1876 SLQ purchased&nbsp; for $40 some 4 years ago at the very 1st. Gettysburg&nbsp; show .</p><p>That coin is an MPD -002 it is an R-7 variety&nbsp; with a premium&nbsp; factor&nbsp; of&nbsp; 3.0%-4.0% x.</p><p>Making its&nbsp; value in xf&nbsp; condition&nbsp; about $450. It is considered&nbsp; very rare with my references&nbsp; stating only 6 known !</p><p>Now I was going to ask the poster&nbsp; whom replied if any of you have any reference&nbsp; books on MPD&#039;s? However&nbsp; since only koinJester&nbsp; knew what MPD&#039;S&nbsp; are I&#039;m&nbsp; am guessing&nbsp; the answer would be no.</p><p>I will totally&nbsp; agree&nbsp; with&nbsp; Conder101 statement posted&nbsp; above 100%!</p><p>The OP and I have had several&nbsp; PM back and forth about this coin. I can totally&nbsp; understand&nbsp; his concerns&nbsp; over spending&nbsp; money on attribution&nbsp; and regrading. Knowing&nbsp; what he paid....I told him that if my coin budget&nbsp; wasn&#039;t&nbsp; in the red ink I would gladly&nbsp; offer him double&nbsp; what he paid.</p><p>That&#039;s&nbsp; how sure I am of my attribution&nbsp; of this coin.</p><p>Since&nbsp; only KoinJester&nbsp; was on point and knew what an MPD&nbsp; was I will share some of the information&nbsp; I&#039;ve&nbsp; learned over the last 4 years as a variety&nbsp; collector&nbsp; hunting&nbsp; these specimens .</p><p>Chances&nbsp; are if you have in your collection&nbsp; one of the following&nbsp; coins in your collection&nbsp; you may have a MPD coin. Large cents,</p><p>IHC, two cent pieces , three cent pieces , shield nickels , Seated&nbsp; Half dimes, Seated Dimes, Barber dimes, Seated Quarter ,Seated Halfs,Morgan&#039;s , Gold quarter&nbsp; eagle,Half Eagles , and double eagles .</p><p>You see MPD&#039;S&nbsp; are sort of the &quot;Where&#039;s&nbsp; Waldo&quot; of the numismatics&nbsp; world.</p><p>You see they can be right before&nbsp; your eyes&nbsp; and you still never notice&nbsp; them.</p><p>They are sometimes&nbsp; as plain as day....other times&nbsp; they&nbsp; can be found in quite&nbsp; a&nbsp; few&nbsp; places.</p><p>Seated&nbsp; coinage seems to have the most as they can be hidden&nbsp; in many places. The shield , rock,her dress,denticals , some you can definitely&nbsp; tell that it&#039;s&nbsp; a digit,other time they can parts of the numbers,or even mistaken for a die chip. On IHC it can be in her neck, on a shield nickel in the ball.</p><p>Again where&#039;s Waldo?&nbsp; Well as other items found on coins sometimes you need to train your&nbsp; eyes&nbsp; to see something&nbsp; that can be well camouflaged in so many devices on the coin.</p><p>For the most part I say better that 90% members here are unaware&nbsp; that these do exist .</p><p>One thing I&#039;ve&nbsp; learned especially&nbsp; with seated coinage make sure your eyes check out all the known places these digits&nbsp; could be hidden. As Seated coins&nbsp; probably&nbsp; are best known for&nbsp; MPD&#039;S . Especially&nbsp; dates in the 1870&#039;s-1890&#039;s.</p><p>As for IHC 1865-1908. Two and three&nbsp; cent&nbsp; pieces&nbsp; look in the denticals ,and the neck. Shield nickels&nbsp; the ball and denticals , Liberty&nbsp; nickel&nbsp; the denticals .</p><p>The list goes on and on for all of the coins I listed above.</p><p>Again that die chip may not be a die&nbsp; chip it maybe a piece&nbsp; of&nbsp; a digit , how can you tell? Kevin Flynn&nbsp; has&nbsp; published&nbsp; a quick&nbsp; reference&nbsp; book on these with images,and pups.</p><p>I find this book very helpful for a reference when questioning a possible&nbsp; find. The book is not very expensive and we&#039;ll worth having in your library .</p><p>Again I&#039;m&nbsp; sticking&nbsp; to&nbsp; my guns on this one! And again if lady luck smiles on me and I hit the lottery , and the coin is offered&nbsp; for sale I would buy it in a NY minute .</p><p><br /></p><p>Above is the 1876 SLQ with the MPD in its denticles. MPD -002.</p><p>I will also add between&nbsp; the Variety /R factors&nbsp; , and the toning I wouldn&#039;t&nbsp; take 100&nbsp; times its&nbsp; book value....yes another&nbsp; coin Paddy is taking with him<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> !</p><p>I have a few H-10&#039;s with dates in her dress as well as the rock if I can locate the images I will post later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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