1969-D No FG

No, you can see bumps here the letters are. To be the "no FG" it has to be completely gone. Like this one.

or this one on a 1988

First and foremost, you have to understand that TPGs make mistakes as well. I can tell you that MOST attributors would not accept anything in the area where the initials are located. This really is not a variety at all. It is believed to be from an over abraided(polished) die, or Struck Through Grease, or a combination of both. In fact this coin will not be listed anymore in the Cherrypicker's guide. It has already been removed from the list on the CONECA website http://www.varietyvista.com/CPG%20V...%20cents.htm I believe I have heard that PCGS will not even slab them anymore.

They did not designate it as a variety. The authors of the Cherrypicker's Guide did. The only varieties that PCGS will slab with the variety attribution number is ones listed in the Cherrypicker's Guide and RedBook. The authors of the Cherrypicker's Guide no longer author it. The next issue is said to be authored by Ken Potter.

So should the variety even be shown on the PCGS website? If So, Should they show a coin that you say is misattributed on the page? Or is the coin actually a No FG and the struck through die variety? The other being the abbraided die variety? I am not wanting to make a big deal over this but I need to know. I don't want to list my coin on ebay and it really just be a normal 1969-D, But I also don't want to throw it back and find out later that the coin shown on the website is actually a NO FG which would also make my coin the No FG.

I have sold 10 of these over the past 5 years. They are not all that rare. As for comparing dies, how do you propose that? If it is a Struck Through Grease, once the grease is removed from the die it is producing a normal coin again. It is not like your typical variety that would be there for the life of the die. The past 2 years have been very unkind to this coin. I rarely get more than $5 for them now.

List it on ebay, if that is what you want. If a buyer complains that it is not the FS-901 as shown in the CPG, you could always argue your point with the PCGS link you provided earlier. For me, I would not list it unless the FG was completely gone.

I completely understand what you are saying about how the grease could have been cleaned up and maybe it happened again in the same spot on the same or different dies making different types of stuck through coins. I never thought about it that way. So really these are not varieties but are rather struck through error coins.

I honestly would not collect them but if others do I want to sell it and not throw it back. Even if it only brought $5 by the way the coin is AU, then I would still have $5 more to spend on coins to search. That would get me 250 pennies to search.

I hope you don't think I am being a jerk about this. I just want to get it cleared up as to if it is really that common and if it is then PCGS should remove it from their website and registry.

For some reason every time I look at the PCGS Coinfacts site now I keep getting the free trial page and they won't show me the page I am looking for. So, I can't look at the regular 1969-D. If you can view it does it look like the same coin as the AU in the 1969-D NO FG link I provided?