Oh, now it's a 'rank out' session. I'm gone from this thread. I could tolerate it last nite, after a few belts, but I'm way too sober at the moment.......
Kein... I am sorry you got off on the wrong foot here. Yes, the folks that share information here have lived and breathed coins for decades. I been at it myself just shy of fifty years. Yes we do get ankle deep in conversation about die states and minor variations in mintmark placements. Really scintillating stuff..... Multiple times a day we see coins posted here that the owner believes are invaluable because somebody told their sister in law they saw something on the web.... It goes on and on. I am sorry that a divot in a cent is not remarkable to most of us. Without even thinking hard I can envision dozens of ways that could be done. Intentionally and otherwise.... But here’s the deal. Making a windfall from loose pocket change happens more infrequently than winning the lottery. Rather think about the people that held that 1960 cent. People worried about a nuclear war or sending a family member off to war. People that can’t remotely envision a cell phone or internet. There is so much that coins can do to enrich our minds and connect us to previous generations...... So stick around. Make some friends. Learn what real value lies in your old pocket change. I can promise you will be a richer man for it.
Though it may put your "friend of a friend" in a compromising position, if at all possible, you should get a handwritten letter/statement from that guy or at least that relative, in order to "legitimize" those coins. Without some sort of provenance, you will have one heck of a hard time proving that those coins are what you say they are, just as you're having a hard time here proving it. You really can't blame folks here for being skeptical. Surely one of the grading services would be able to verify?
No top 4 grading service will grade the cents in post #108 as being done in a mint with a supposed hardness tester which penetrates the zincoln in doing a test. Reference sources say the small ball tester is used for mild metal and copper. The diamond quad pyramid type only on harder metals, but he is safe as he probably "got wronged" once and only trusts his Youtube sources not a TPG. Just waiting for him to enhance the friends in the mint , to himself that worked there and ran the testing lab.
Well, after reading the info at the links provided, and more, I have decided that it is possible that such coins as he describes do exist and could have "got out" of the mint. Whether or not the coins he has shown us are some of those coins, is still unproven, and not likely to change. From the info I read, both circular depressions and raised circular bumps, along with elongated circular depressions, are all possible, but not very likely.
Who knows about the 1984 Doubled Ear LMC? Everyone , right? What about the 1988 and the 1997 Doubled Ear varieties? Who knows about them? I didn't know about them until I stumbled across them as I researched the Rockwell Hardness Test coins. I've learned that anything is possible, whether likely or not.
Haaaa and here is another coin that you special people will not have the privilege to hold and grade,,,popcorn
