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I rubbed it on a piece of paper and a 5 showed up!
Now I will try to find the 2!!!
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I rubbed it on a piece of paper and a 5 showed up!
Now I will try to find the 2! Nice! Can you post pics? Does rubbing the coin on paper damage it? I've tried using a King George III halfpenny as a pocket piece, and the date (1807) showed up faintly! Also, I can usually tell the date from the shape of the 5. Edited by Omegaraptor
03/21/2017 11:09 pm
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Well, it will make the coin shiny. I learned it from a dealer with Flying Eagle cents. One minute you have a no date flying eagle, the next you have a bold 1858. I am starting to see the last digit. It looks like a 2 or a 3. But it can't be a 3 because it doesn't have rays. |
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Well, tell us if it is a 2.
That's one of the toughest dates in the series besides the CCs, and that's saying a lot in a series where half the coins are key dates - Mintage 96000 with about 400 surviving examples. (PCGS Coinfacts)
In FR-02 there is an auction result that sold for $179. I think yours might be worth getting slabbed if it is a 52-O.
And hey, maybe the FE cents trick could be the secret to dateless SLQs.
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03/21/2017 11:15 pm
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I am pretty sure it is a 2. I am about to watch a movie with family. So will probably take pictures afterwards or tomorrow morning.
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Time for another shipment to ANACS? Well, once your last order comes back!
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I didnt know you could judge a coins date by the mint mark
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Every once in a while you can, but like this one, as typecoin pointed out, you can't
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Hey Devin, tried some filtering tricks this is what I pulled up. I'm fairly sure last digit is a 3. There was just enough shadow to form an outline. The third looks like an L, the 18 are approximations, nothing there. My only thinking is that these numbers are too high, far from rim, I tried...  Looking again, maybe the L is the upright of a 5 and 3 is top of 2, really isn't enough there. |
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Crazyb0 it can't be a 1853 O. They were made with rays.
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I'm looking through Briggs' Seated quarter images right now. The O on your coin should be located further to the right to match either 1852-O reverse, and I think that can be ruled out with pretty good certainty. The 1856-O 2-B and 1857-O 2-B are closer matches. The position of the O is all over the place in these years, depending on the reverse die. For the common dates people don't differentiate Seated quarters by die pairs. This appears to me to be an example of an 1856-O 2-B based on the Briggs photos. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1856-O-US-S...AOSw44BYSInt"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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03/22/2017 3:59 pm
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Could be an 1850 or 1856 or 1858 as well.
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03/22/2017 10:16 pm
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