1938 Jefferson Nickel Doubled Die - DDO-005, FS-105

Even an all flatoot like me can see the steps on this one. Very nice coin.

Very clear doubling on the L of LIBERTY even in this overall pic. Well done @tb.

Nope...just making a comment about how nice the coin was. Guess I should stay away from topics I know nothing about. Thanks

Sooooo, PCGS has done it again. Going through slabs and verifying things and filing them when I came to this one. I put it under the scope (see photo) and it seemed like the attribution was wrong. I looked up the markers and sure enough, it is DDO-008, FS-106. It seemed odd that I would submit a coin to them with a bad attribution, so I pulled the paperwork and verified that I did in fact submit the coin as DDO-008, FS-106. Looking at the obvious die markers around LIBERTY it is undeniably FS-106 Variety Vista Stage B (or WDDO-004 in the Wexler system).

For some reason they disagreed, incorrectly, with my attribution numbers. So now I have to re-submit it for a service request to get the correct die on the label, which will take another two months. Anymore it seems like at least one coin per submission comes back wrong, and even right now I have four coins in for a service request to get them to put the right attribution on the label after they came back wrong. Usually I end up sending the coins to one of the private attributors like James Wiles to get a letter verifying my original attribution, but this one really isn't that hard so probably just send it in with a note asking for the correction.

Why it matters? Well the coin auctions sell what's on the label, not any side notes or anything like that, so if the label is wrong it will always float around as the wrong coin. But specifically in this case, as noted at MS66 an FS-105 coin is POP 14/0 with a lot of coins at MS64 or better. But FS-106 is far more rare with MS66 being POP 4/0 and only 23 total in any MS grade.

And so back it will go, for yet another return submission for PCGS to fix a mistake on a variety coin.

Oh yeah, it's got trueview as that's the image I posted at the top here. This coin, and a second one of these I submitted that also went MS66, are now plate coins on coinfacts. So yes, anyone using coinfacts images to assist with attributions would get things totally wrong if they used the current set of plate coins for FS-105, since two of the three main plate coins are now wrong.

nice DDO TB, and god luck with the resubmission to get it fixed.

I find it hard to understand why so many continue to submit varieties & errors to PCGS. There capsuled coins seem to me only a status symbol of sorts, kinda like Dansco albums.
I would avoid any grading service the consistently requires resubmission. Especially considering the higher cost and turnover times involved.
Maybe it is time to review the hierarchy of the top graders using botched submissions as one of the criteria and not solely on popularity and resale value.
Just my opinion.

Let's be fair, not all of those 170,000 collectors are trying to fill every slot for all denominations, particularly with varieties. But when the populations are so tiny for some variety coins, it probably only takes a few hundred hardcore collectors with serious money to skew the numbers.