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Hi Everyone !! Just thought I would share a sampling of 10 dimes that I bought over the weekend, these dimes were in a Pony express poster board,framed and behind plexi glass plastic window, I think they were probly put in there in the early 70's but I cant confirm that! its an estimate based on the frame style and hardware. Anyways what do you think ? all of the dimes have a similar appearance, my photo skills are minimal and the colors are not exact, these dimes are deep purple and a very nice golden color !! Rick Image:  DSCF1445~2.jpg47.31 KB |
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Rick,
It appears that the surface of the dimes have been badly effercted by a sulfer exposure from the poster board breaking down over time. This is a very advanced stated of toning and is irreversal. All indications are that they will continue to turn until they are black. Sorry for the negative. Some people really like toning but I think this has advanced too far.
catman
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Catman Your response was Expected !! LOL I have removed the dimes from the poster board and placed them in airtites, They are really quite pretty in hand ,but I hope to arrest any further advance of the toning !! I just couldn't pass them up, total cost was five bucks, 9 dimes are of the 40's but one a 1919-S ,,which also exhibits a few small die anomolies a small double Cud on the reverse and a slightly off center of the obverse which has merged the lower tail of the second nine with the rim. Rick |
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Can't lose with a deal like that..! Need a place to store them out of the humidity you can send them to me here in Las vegas. I will give them a good home.  catman Edited by catman
09/27/2005 6:20 pm
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Originally posted by catman
Can't lose with a deal like that..! Need a place to store them out of the humidity you can send them to me here in Las vegas. I will give them a good home.
catman
I can offer an even drier location: near Salome, AZ, humidity 9% (vs Las Vegas 16%).  We can't be too careful about our toning, can we?  Rick, I really like toned coins and the dime you show is just gorgeous, but as catman states, they've gone about as far as they can and still maintain the beauty of their toning. Fred |
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Humidity is not a problem Guys !!!
I live in the New Mexico desert !!
Rick
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Humidity is not a problem Guys !!!
I live in the New Mexico desert !!
Rick
Nah, not even close, Rick. My Arizona desert has your NM desert beat by half the humidity. The lowest humidity I could find (Alamogordo) was 16% and where I live in the AZ desert is 9% (usually less in the PM). Those poor dimes would oxidize away in all that wet air. Fred |
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Hey Fred
Only a few miles from Alamogordo,, PM me an address and Ill send you one of these beauties !!
We will see who's desert is best !!!
No charge no shipping !!! consider it a Thank You !!!
Rick
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As long as you're sending free dimes to AZ with wild abandon, I'll take a couple up here in Prescott, AZ...we need to do this thing right...this is still high desert up here! I think I heard our humidity up here is about 1%, yeah, yeah, that's it, 1%, but the only way to find out for sure is to test the effects on toned dimes...
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As long as you're sending free dimes to AZ with wild abandon, I'll take a couple up here in Prescott, AZ...we need to do this thing right...this is still high desert up here! I think I heard our humidity up here is about 1%, yeah, yeah, that's it, 1%, but the only way to find out for sure is to test the effects on toned dimes...
Adobero1, I'm also very near Prescott at the moment, staying at the White Spar NF campground just outside the city waiting for it to cool off at my desert winter feeding grounds. My humidity gauge says 40% to 50% most of the time although lag time must be taken into account since the humidity changes so rapidly during the day. But, it's still not as dry as in the desert, so I'm afraid I'm gonna have to take those dimes into custody for safe keeping from the environment. Sorry.  But, I gotta admit, it is really, really nice in these hills (5800') and cools off very comfortably at night. And Prescott is a nice little city (80K popn), clean, tidy, and easily navigable. If I had to live in a city, Prescott would be right up there on the list. Alas, I must move down to the desert in a couple days and endure the heat (and very low humidity) for a couple weeks until fall sets in. Fred |
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Gee Metalman. It looks like no one wants your dimes catman |
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Research has shown that coins sent and stored in Indiana are by far better off than any other location in the world. Seeing how our weather changes every 15 minutes a coin doesn't have time for permanent surface changes (toning, corroding or ect...) as the temperature and humidity aren't stable enough to create the atmosphere for such. Shoot, our motto here is "If you don't like the weather, hang around for 15 minutes and it will change"! Feel free to ship any time as my research was very extensive and demanding the whole 15 minutes I looked at the coins in the study which took place both indoors and outdoors! None of them made any effort to tone so your coins are safe here! I will stake my Degree in Coinology from the Backyard, Barnyard School of Technology and Science on these claims! Indiana WANTS your coins and the rarer the better!!!
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I think the question of who gets the dimes should be decided by who has the fewest dimes at the moment....Since dimes were first coined in Philadelphia, it follows that folks living out west have been enduring a dime shortage since the late 1700's. Not that many have filtered out here yet, in fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen one, but places like Indiana with an abundance of dimes in all shapes and sizes certainly should not be in the running IMHO. But, let the majority decide...
Morgan Fred: it certainly is astounding that you are camped near town. From what I saw your way today, they must be trying to smoke you out...I presume that was a control burn, and not one of their control burns that sometimes get out of control! The fact that you refer to Prescott as a "city" reminds me of how things have change here since I came in 1958. This was the sleepiest western town imaginable in those days, now it retains very little of its western flavor. Welcome! I'm out of town for the next 3 or 4 days or you might want to "risk" a meeting with this wanna be hermit! LOL Maybe next time! Dan
P.S. I really think you need to look into getting your humidity gauge fixed though...40 to 50% here? Please! (just my luck, of all the towns in all the world a guy with a humidity gauge has to show up and spoil my 1% humidity scam...the story of my life!)
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Originally posted by adobero1
I think the question of who gets the dimes should be decided by who has the fewest dimes at the moment....Since dimes were first coined in Philadelphia, it follows that folks living out west have been enduring a dime shortage since the late 1700's. Not that many have filtered out here yet, in fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen one, but places like Indiana with an abundance of dimes in all shapes and sizes certainly should not be in the running IMHO. But, let the majority decide...
Morgan Fred: it certainly is astounding that you are camped near town. From what I saw your way today, they must be trying to smoke you out...I presume that was a control burn, and not one of their control burns that sometimes get out of control! The fact that you refer to Prescott as a "city" reminds me of how things have change here since I came in 1958. This was the sleepiest western town imaginable in those days, now it retains very little of its western flavor. Welcome! I'm out of town for the next 3 or 4 days or you might want to "risk" a meeting with this wanna be hermit! LOL Maybe next time! Dan
P.S. I really think you need to look into getting your humidity gauge fixed though...40 to 50% here? Please! (just my luck, of all the towns in all the world a guy with a humidity gauge has to show up and spoil my 1% humidity scam...the story of my life!)
Love your sense of humor, Dan! I'd stop by, but I departed the campground this morning (anxious to get to the desert) and am now at my permanent winter feeding grounds in the desert. A little warmer here -108F this afternoon, but it's tolerable (well, sort of) since it's so dry. My humidity gauge (more correctly, hygrometer) is already down to 40% inside my trailer (note: it seldom drops down to the ambient outside humidity due to indoor air moisture sources such as breathing), but I expect it to drop down much further because it's so DRY here.  And I haven't a dime to my name, haven't had one since the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 (in an earlier incarnation), so I would certainly be high on the list as a dime recipient. And you're right about Indiana having a lot of dimes: my parents lived there in the 60s and 70s and there were so many dimes around that Dad was paid in dimes and there were roadkill dimes on every street corner. I had a tour of duty at Ft. Ben Harrison in Indy and the main Post flagpole was constructed out of dimes.  There was a lot on the Prescott radio station about how in 1957, the popn was only 10K and is now 80K. Of course, Prop 400 is feeding on this (for those not in the loop, Prop 400 is a "no growth" referendum, driven by the area's growth). Fred-Kissed-The-Blarney-Stone |
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a dime is an animal that buurows in the ground and hunts at night with large claws
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