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Ugly
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Canada
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Came across this little baby hunting through my rolls of fishscales, pretty ain't she? Put it in here so it can be community graded.
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Pillar Of The Community
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Fishscales?
 Visualize Whirled Peas - Doctors with patience will lose money letting loose their patients. - They're over there with their car.
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Pillar Of The Community
Canada
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Pillar Of The Community
Canada
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Earle, fishscales are the nickname for these tiny five cent pieces used in Canada up to 1921. Roughly the same as a US Half Dime.
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Pillar Of The Community
United States
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Thanks for the clarification Ugly, I have some - just never heard the term before. I hate how people used to drill holes in these and use them for charms.
Visualize Whirled Peas - Doctors with patience will lose money letting loose their patients. - They're over there with their car.
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Pillar Of The Community
Canada
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Just hanging around in a roll, huh?
At least AU-55 (perhaps a bit of rubbing on ear lobe and bow tops). Beautiful rainbow toning around edges. Wow.
> Fishscales
Better than "silver nickels", which drives me nuts.
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Pillar Of The Community
Canada
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Yeah a roll, I think the scrubs are from not being in the roll tight enough.
The notes on the outside say I bought the roll in 1981, looking back at the period I can understand how it got clumped in with other items not being a key date etc. It was my habit to transfer rolls of coins into plastic tubes and tape the wrappers on the outside once I acquired them.
I love the toning on it, I admit it. If you check the US classic coins grading forum and see the old seated liberty dime I posted you'll see another great toned coin I also pulled out of another old collections I purchased.
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United States
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I'm not good at grading these, but I'll give it a shot... AU-55, because of the rub on the ear (although it could be a weak strike MS-62)... Beautiful coin nonetheless, can't wait to see what the grade is...  |
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Pillar Of The Community
Canada
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A tough one. The rims and field suggest mint-state, but the reverse crown and obverse beard are not crisp. I would venture a moderately weakly struck MS-62, possibly MS-63 with a point for eye-appeal.
"Research is what I am doing, when I don't know what I am doing" --Wernher von Braun
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Sweet coin and picture. Is that fishscale typical of the roll or the best of the lot?
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Pillar Of The Community
Canada
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It's average grade for the roll, but that's by far the nicest/best looking one in there. I have put him in an airtight fluffed with Argon, he goes on display at the Ugly shack.
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Canada
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love the toning.
grading is not my strong point. I'm guessing au50 or better.
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Posted 05/01/2011 12:46 pm
